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PDI fighting for cases of poor women
KARACHI- Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) has been provided several cases of land grantees women in February 2010 that are pending in different district courts and Revenue departments, for providing legal support to grantees to resolving their land allotted issues on their door step.
The PDI program official along with PDI legal aid committee for Land grantees visited far flung areas of Thatta and Umerkot villages where they met with different land grantees, facing post land-distribution problems.
It is the motto of PDI to highlight the cases of women land grantees in the media and to provide them justice and wage struggle for their land rights.
Believing in philosophy of empowering women segment in the society especially rural areas women, PDI staff members are raising their voices at different platforms and highlighting the land grantees issues in the media and holding meetings with other civil society groups. PDI has the honor that it’s not only waging struggle through effective advocacy but also providing legal and financial support to women land grantees and filing their cases in the courts.
PDI along with women in trouble held several protest rallies outside the press clubs of Thatta and Hyderabad to voice concern for their genuine rights. Cases were filed in courts of Hyderabad and Thatta as well as in Land Revenue official department by PDI legal aid committee along with PDI official Sattar Zanj.
In Jati district Thatta, an influential local woman belonging to a wealthy land lord family occupied the land of Porhi, a local poor woman. PDI is supporting the case of Porhi in Board Revenue Department and also providing legal support to her.
In said district Miss Raheema is also facing same scenario as her land had been occupied. An application has been field for her in Board of Revenue Department and PDI legal aid committee is fighting her case to give back her land.
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