An invisible workforce
Working conditions seem to have gone from bad to worse for the women in Pakistan’s agricultural sector after the 2022...
Haroon Janjua is an award-winning journalist covering South Asia. Based in Islamabad, Pakistan, he is a 2021 Pulitzer Center grantee. He has also received the 2015 United Nations Correspondents Association Award, the 2015 IE Business School Prize for best journalistic work on Asian Economy, and the 2015 Global Media Award from the Population Institute in Washington D.C. He tweets @JanjuaHaroon.
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