KARACHI: The Society for Environmental Action, Reconstruction and Humanitarian Response (SEARCH) Pakistan has launched a campaign to push the Sindh government to distribute 144,561 acres of land among female farmers. Women around the world mostly do not have the right to own a piece of land and a global campaign is under way to ensure such rights are not denied to them. SEARCH has stepped up efforts to help women gain land rights. As part of the campaign, a workshop is being organised on “Women Right to Land” in Hyderabad. SEARCH Pakistan Executive Director Waheed Jamali said the Sindh government in 2008 had announced that it would distribute 200,000 acres of land among poor farmers, particularly female peasants. “The government distributed only 55,439 acres out of the promised 200,000 acres and is not willing to distribute the remaining land,” Jamali said.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 27th, 2013.
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