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Land and the Patriarchal Bargain

This paper will attempt to examine the changing nuances of women's economic positioning in rural Sindh and probe the possibility of land ownership as a means of empowerment, while exploring the local discourse around it.

Land for the Landless
This article explains the Sindh government’s land redistribution programme which will distribute approx two to eight acres of barrage land among approx 14,000 persons, most women in its first phase.
Land Ownership and Pukhtun Women in Tribal Area (FATA) and NWFP

This paper attempts to find an association between the absence of federal and provincial laws in the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of Pakistan and denial of land ownership rights to women.  It discusses various forms of collective and individual land ownership keeping in view...

Land Rights for Muslim Women: review of law and Policy, Sustainable development
This research report argues that women’s land ownership and control has important connections with their empowerment and there has been negligible research on how many women own land in Pakistan. This study aims to fill this gap and examine the connection between land ownership and empowerment. The...
Land Tenure and Property Rights in Pakistan
The author’s argue that rural discontent over chronic poverty, corruption, and the failure of the government to foster development is widespread in Pakistan and that land tenure and property rights are one aspect of these problems. Post-independence Pakistan has retained a feudal system of land...
Land, Water and Gendered Nobilities in Pakistan: Exploring the Contradictions
Okara women struggle for land rights
This is a letter which highlights the role of women in the  struggle for land in Okara and also the role of women workers helpline in assisting these women.
Pakistan ranks 104th in International Property Rights for women
Article discusses a study done  on property rights of women in Pakistan which has found that despite the fact that 98 percent of the Pakistani population is Muslim and the religion Islam gives the right of inheritance to all inheritors either male or female, this right is not enjoyed in...
Pakistan: Honour Killings of Women and Girls

This report describes the different facets of the phenomenon of honour killings in Pakistan. It looks at the traditions that form the framework of such killings, particularly the commodification of women and the notion of honour. Honour killings may happen for a variety of reasons, including...

Pakistan: The tenants’ struggle on Okara Military Farms

This article reports on the conflict between the military farm administrations and the tenants at Okara Military farms when the former forcibly tried to replace the age-old crop-sharing system of cultivation with cash-rent and yearly lease system. The tenants who had tilled the land through...