Unequal Claims: Land Rights in Cholistan examines land rights and land-allotment schemes in the Cholistan region of Punjab. The HRCP fact-finding report highlights unequal access to land, disputes over ownership and allocation, and the impact of government policies on local communities. It raises concerns about transparency, displacement, livelihoods, and the protection of residents’ land rights.
Unequal Claims: Land Rights in Cholistan examines land rights and land-allotment schemes in the Cholistan region of Punjab. The HRCP fact-finding report highlights unequal access to land, disputes over ownership and allocation, and the impact of government policies on local communities. It raises concerns about transparency, displacement, livelihoods, and the protection of residents’ land rights.
Rural Women in Pakistan: Status Report 2018 provides a comprehensive assessment of the social and economic conditions of rural women in Pakistan. It examines women’s roles in agriculture, employment, education, health, unpaid care work, access to resources, and decision-making. The report highlights that rural women make major contributions to household and agricultural economies but remain concentrated in low-paid, informal, and vulnerable work. It also identifies barriers such as limited access to education, healthcare, financial resources, technology, and political participation. The report recommends stronger gender-responsive policies, better data, economic opportunities, and institutional support to improve the wellbeing and empowerment of rural women.
The brief explains international sanctions, their different types, and how they are used to influence states and individuals without military force. It focuses on the growing use of targeted and secondary sanctions, particularly by the United States, and examines their effects on countries such as Pakistan. It also highlights the humanitarian and economic consequences of sanctions, arguing that sanctions should be carefully designed to minimize harm to civilians.
The study examines internal colonialism in northern Pakistan, particularly in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan. Torwali argues that indigenous communities have experienced political, cultural, and linguistic marginalization, resulting in the weakening of local languages, identities, and cultural rights. The study also discusses assimilation, loss of indigenous culture, fragmented political structures, and the situation of Gilgit-Baltistan. It calls for greater recognition and protection of the region's linguistic, cultural, and political rights.
Thepolicy brief argues that Pakistan's experience demonstrates the urgent need for an international loss-and-damage financing mechanism that provides vulnerable developing countries with the resources needed to prevent, respond to, and recover from climate-related disasters.