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An Opportunity to Remedy Inequality in Pakistan
Land Reform Needed to Bring Equality for Rural Women, People in Poverty
The Sindh provincial government in Pakistan has taken an important step to mitigate harm from last year’s devastating floods and also provide redress for gender inequality and barriers to land ownership, particularly for women living in rural areas.
- Patricia Gossman
- HRW
Cataclysmic flooding in Pakistan in July 2022, triggered by unprecedented monsoon rainfall and glacial melting, damaged or destroyed more than 2.1 million homes countrywide.
The floods submerged one-third of the country, killing 15,000 people and displacing 8 million.
The worst affected areas were rural parts of…