17-10-2012 08:26 AM | Pakistan

Women farmers demand right to land ownership

While commemorating World Food Day, women farmers from different parts of the country, in collaboration with ActionAid Pakistan, on Tuesday arranged an innovative stunt activity in the federal capital for informing the impact of increasing food prices on small farmers, particularly the women who are denied the right to land despite the fact that they produce more than 60 percent food for the country while they own merely one or two percent of the total land.

Wearing different costumes, the women farmers performed in a play in front of National Press Club that highlighted the discrimination being meted out to them.
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