In a country stained with staunch patriarchal mindset, values and systems it is not easy to break the internal shackles at a personal level. It is strikingly easy to shout slogans, attend trainings...
When floods swept large parts of Pakistan in 2010, an estimated 20 million people were affected. Besides the slow response, the absence of comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and...
Heavy monsoon rains led to massive flooding across large parts of Pakistan in 2010, affecting up to 20 million people. ActionAid responded to the disaster immediately, working with local...
With case study evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia and Pakistan, and citing global studies and surveys, this report argues that agro-ecology – or ecological agriculture – offers...
The South Asia earthquake on 8 October 2006 claimed at least 73,000 lives. Measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, it left many others without food, clothes and shelter to face the harsh winter. ...
In a society where women are not treated equally, life for a girl child becomes discriminatory, unjust and considerably miserable. Such is the case in most parts of Pakistan where girls are inhumanly...
Umerkot is one of the worst flood affected districts of Sindh, Pakistan. It is contrary to environmental characteristics of the area that it floods with rainwater. People have constructed their...
Time to nab poor governance
By: Javed Shabbir Choudry
Whenever a tragedy hits Pakistan, poor people are screwed up. They are deprived of whatever little possession they do have. They become...
Since Indri’s father passed away two years ago, her mother has had to struggle to raise the family alone. Now life is even tougher as the monsoons have destroyed their home and many of the goats they...
With two disabled sons, life was difficult enough for Zainab before the floods left her family homeless. Now she has lost her livestock and her village is completely under water.
