Aug 21 '16

Problem: Despite the Pakistani Supreme Court’s 2009 granting third-gender certification on their national ID and the ability to vote to Khwaja Siras, individuals who self-identify as third-gendered, the community continues to face an excruciating level of discrimination, gendered violence and arbitrary state violence. Some note that the term Khwaja Sira...

Aug 21 '16

Problem: There are few unbiased, non-tampered records of archival data (photos, oral accounts, correspondence etc.) of the Pakistan’s partition from India in 1947. Most state narratives come with an anti-Indian nationalist rhetoric that erases the stories of many including religious and ethnic minorities from the nation-building moment. Such state-centric, and...

Aug 21 '16

Problem: There are few unbiased, non-tampered records of archival data (photos, oral accounts, correspondence etc.) of the Pakistan’s partition from India in 1947. Most state narratives come with an anti-Indian nationalist rhetoric that erases the stories of many including religious and ethnic minorities from the nation-building moment. Such state-centric, and...

Jul 30 '16

Problem and Purpose: According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, honour killings are becoming an acute social and moral problem. In 2015, 1,096 women and 88 men were murdered, higher than 860 women in 2013, with many cases unreported. Honour killings are when a family, or local community murders...

Jul 28 '16

History In 1900, the British Imperial Raj developed a canal system for the agricultural development of Punjab and promised the labourers involved in the project agricultural land as compensation for their work. Some families, settled in Okara were given tenant status and promised full ownership rights within a given period.Though...

Jul 26 '16

Problem/Purpose: The 2013 general elections of Pakistan were faced with serious proof of electoral rigging, judicial intervention and political interference in not only the elections process itself (voter registration, eligibility and results) but also, the National Database and Registration Authority’s fairness evaluation process. History/Overview Organized by Imran khan and his...

Jul 25 '16

Problem/Purpose Due to security concerns, gendered social norms constricting interaction between women and non-related men, social stigma around women in public spaces and threats of sexual harassment and rape, women’s mobility in public spaces in Pakistan is severely restricted.Such constraints also threaten a women’s decision to participate and engage in...

Jul 24 '16

History/Overview The Balochistan Agriculture Project is an initiative organized by USAID and UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization in Pakistan. The project’s primary aim is to help communities and individual farmers increase production, sales and revenues for crops and livestock.In addition to supporting local organizations, the project helps train farmers how...