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Climate change impacting health of women agriculture workers, says study

The increased temperature has led to severe impacts on the livelihoods and health of women agriculture workers in Sindh. They face difficulties in.

Haris grow food, yet face hunger Why?

Haris grow food, yet face hunger. Why? Activists call for ensuring peasants’ food security, empowering women workers KARACHI: They work hard all day in scorching heat to produce food. Yet, they survive on little. Deprived, ill-treated and downtrodden, they are your peasants and your haris. Speakers, during a webinar organised by the Hari Welfare Association (HWA) on Saturday, in connection with the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle that is observed on April 17 every year, lamented this lack of food sovereignty among Pakistan’s peasants. Food sovereignty is the people’s right to healthy food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and to define their own food and agricultural systems.

Implementation of women agricultural workers law stressed

Implementation of women agricultural workers law stressed Speakers demand social security, underscore absence of rules for 2020 law Two months after the monsoon’s end, women stand in a field of cotton destroyed by the subsequent flooding in Umerkot dis-trict. Hundreds of thousands of acres of standing crops were devastated across Sindh. PHOTO: ONLINE KARACHI: Labour activists have stressed on the need to implement the Sindh Women Agricultural Workers Act 2020, demanding social security for agriculture workers. At a dialogue organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and the Sindh on Friday speakers observed that the absence of rules of business was the main hurdle in implementing the 2020 labour law. The social structure is complicit in the exploitation of agricultural workers in the province, noted HRCP Chairperson Asad Iqbal Butt. Stressing that labour organisations should work together to secure the rights of agricultural workers, he observed that women labourers

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