Research Reports (Authored)

Contract Work in 21^st Century: A Case Study of Pakistan, 2021,  Institute of Historical and Social Research, Karachi  (based on 2018 research A Rapid Assessment of Contract Labour in Sindh undertaken for the ILO-Pakistan).

Labour Standards and Employment Patterns in Surgical Instruments Sector Sialkot, 2019, PILER-ETI-UK  (synthesis report  Labour standards in Pakistan’s surgical instruments sector published by the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI): https://www.ethicaltrade.org/sites/default/files/shared_resources/Labour%20standards%20in%20Pakistan’s%20surgical%20instruments%20sector_2.pdf

Valuing Women’s Care Work in Pakistan: Lady Health Workers’ Struggle for Rights and Entitlements, 2017, Pakistan Institute of Labour Research and Education (PILER) and ActionAid France (AAF-SPo)

Status of Labour Rights in Pakistan 2016, Pakistan Institute of Labour Research and Education (PILER)

Rapid Assessment: The Worst Forms of Child Labour in Districts Badin and Tando Allahyar, Sindh, 2013, Provincial Child Labour Unit, Government of Sindh.

Religious Minorities in Pakistan – Constitutional Rights and Access to Judicial System: A Study of Socio-Legal Constraints, 2013, Pakistan Institute of Labour Research & Education (PILER), (Zeenat Hisam & Yasmin Qureshi).

The Flood Affected Population in Sindh: Rebuilding Lives and Livelihoods, 2011, Pakistan Institute of Labour Research & Education (PILER), 

Labour Standards in Football Manufacturing Industry: A Case Study of a Nike Vendor in Sialkot, Pakistan, 2009, PILER,

Organizing for Labour Rights: Comparative Study of Women Workers in Textile/Garment Sector in Pakistan and Bangladesh, 2009, Pakistan Institute of Labour Research & Education (PILER) and South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE)

Denial and Discrimination: Labour Rights in Pakistan, 2007, Pakistan Institute of Labour Research & Education (PILER)

Road Transport Workers in Pakistan, 2006, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER)

Gender and Poverty in Pakistan, 2005, South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication & PILER;

Industrial Relations and Labour Rights in Pakistan, 2004, The Network, Islamabad

Women and Children in Prison, 2003, Association of the Business, Professional and Agriculture Women, Pakistan.

Right to be Heard: The Process of Women’s Empowerment (1986 to 2002), 2003, Sindh Agriculture and Forestry Workers’ Coordination Organisation (SAFWCO), Shahdadkot, Sindh.

Seeds of Change: Community Health Project, 2002, Sindh Agriculture and Forestry Workers’ Coordination Organisation (SAFWCO), Shahdadkot, Sindh;

Women and Crisis Management: Ethnic Violence in Karachi in the 1990s, Shirkatgah Women’s Resource Centre, Karachi (2000)

Reports Edited

Status of Labour Rights in Pakistan 2014, Pakistan Institute of Labour Research & Education (PILER)

Labour Rights in Pakistan: Expanding Informality and Diminishing Wages, 2011, Pakistan Institute of Labour Research & Education (PILER)

Labour Rights in Pakistan: Declining Decent Work and Emerging Struggles, 2010, Pakistan Institute of Labour Research & Education (PILER)

Books 

Mingora, The Unplanned City: Dynamics of Development and Public Participation, Zeenat Hisam and Alain Viaro, 2002, City Press Karachi & Graduate Institute of Development Studies, Geneva

Making it Happen: Stories of Community-based Organisations, 1998, NGO Resource Centre (A Project of Aga Khan Foundation), Karachi.