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Articles
Flood-Hit Women Take Up the Challenge to Reconstruct their Devastated Dwellings
By Bushra Khaliq, 1st September, 2010
As flood waters are receding in areas of Kot Addu, the shifting from camps to villages is going to start. After spending two to three weeks in relief camps and experiencing untold miseries, some families have started returning to their ravaged villages only to find their houses collapsed partially or completely... read more
Deconstructing Burqa
By Bushra Khaliq, 6th August 2010
On 13 Jul, 2010 the parliament of France, on the eve of Bastille Day, voted 335 to one in favor of preventing Muslim women wearing a full face-covering veil in public. According to French daily, Le Monde, the new law was strongly supported by the right, while Socialist Party, Communist Party and Green Party abstained... read more
The Strike of Power Looms Workers in Faisalabad Enters the Seventh Day
By Farooq Tariq, 27th July, 2010
All factories are closed. Today on 27th July, women workers demonstrated in front of the district administration office. They were demanding an end of police harassment and raids at their homes. They also spoke against the open exhibition of arms by the gangsters in the workers localities... read more
Stop Repression against Struggling Power Loom Workers in Punjab
By Farooq Tariq, 20th July, 2010
More than 100,000 workers of power loom in Faisalabad district of Punjab province are on strike from today, July 20, 2010 for their demand of wage increase according to the announcement by Government in the budget 2010-11. Government announced 17 % rise in the minimum wage for the private sector workers... read more
Rising Extremism
By Bushra Khaliq, 15th Feb, 2010
Sixty two years ago at the time of Pakistan’s birth in 1947 as a result of partition of United India, the majority of the population in this part of the world was not fundamentalist. The state structures, though weak, nevertheless had chances to grow as a democratic country... read more
Peasants Movement in No Mood to Disappear
By Bushra Khaliq, 10th Jan, 2010
On 10th January 2010, Anjumn Mazareen Punjab (AMP) (Punjab Tenants Organization) organized a public meeting in Renala Kurd, 100 km from Lahore, to commemorate the 8th death anniversary of Muhammad Bashir Ahmad Shaheed, the first martyr among 11 of the movement. He was killed by Rangers in 2002... read more
Pakistani Women are Worst Hit by Climate Change
By Bushra Khaliq, 27th Oct, 2009
Pakistan is among the countries which will be hit hardest in near future by effects of climate change even though it contributes only a fraction to global warming. The country is witnessing severe pressures on natural resources and environment... read more
Women Voices from Inside IDPs Camps in Mardan
By Bushra Khaliq, 24th May, 2009
With the deepening crisis in valley of Swat, more and more displaced families are pouring in Mardan, Swabi, Peshawar and other areas of Pakhtunkhawa. Though independent media and state now confirm over 1.5 million people are displaced from Swat as a result of 3rd military operation against Taliban in less than two years... read more
Tenants’ Movement Regaining Momentum
By Bushra Khaliq, 20th April, 2009
The tenants’ movement is heading towards its natural peak after making unprecedented records of sacrifices and bravery for the last 9 years. Over one million tenants are in peaceful but militant struggle against the large military owned companies over the control of 68,000 acres of highly cultivable land which tenants are tilling for the last 100 years... read more
WSF Belem 2009: Globalizing Gender Solidarity
By Bushra Khaliq, 5th February, 2009
On 29th of January 2009, the fully packed Belem’s Rural University gymnasium was resounded with gender slogans by women activists when four male presidents of Latin America declared themselves as “feminists”... read more
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