News

Date:
6 January 2012
Country:
Pakistan
Title:
Rally Against Inflation and Gas, Power Shortage
Publication:
The Express Tribune
Description:

Hundreds of working class people, including women and children, staged a rally against inflation, loadshedding of electricity and gas and privatisation policy in Rawalpindi on Thursday.[...]Talat Rubab, Home Based Women Workers coordinator, said that the government policies are badly affecting the lives of working people. “There is no gas at home, and wood is very expensive to burn. Most of the time of the women is spent in preparing food and they have no time for the home-based work; life is becoming hell for women workers,” Rubab said.