Human Rights Launched School campaign to raise awareness among students.
CHITRAL: Legal Awareness Program for Human Rights (LAPH) funded by Trocair a foreign based donor agency launched school campaign to raise awareness among the students regarding basic human rights and to motivate them for protection of human rights. The human rights activists arranged this campaign at Government Higher secondary School Morilasht where hundred of students (both girls and boys) participated in the seminar. Ms Gulshad Monitoring and Evaluation Manager of LAPH highlighted basic human rights and stressed upon the students to protect human rights, as they are ambassadors and architects of the nation in future. She said that women folk are often depriving from their basic human rights and are being harassing by different ways. They also depriving from their rights in property and heir. Women were burying live before Islam but this is Islam who bestowed them their real status and dignity in the society. She urged on government for sanctioning special quota in employment to save them from frustrations and to decrease their suicide ratio. She emphasized on girls students to come forward and fight for their rights because rights is snatching not giving.
Chairman Board of Director (LAPH) Niaz Ali Shah said that their organization working for creating awareness regarding basic human rights among the masses and that is why they launched school campaign to convey their message to students. He said that LAPH working different sectors like awareness raising, capacity building, rehabilitation of widow women, providing free legal aid through their free legal aid center, women advocacy, training for media men, police officials and government officials, as well as to support students especially girls students to minimize dropt out ratio. He said that LAPH have compensated 7 girls students of different categories and have registered 30 free cases of poor and oppressed women. Amjad Hjussain Subject Specialist also expressed his views regarding human rights and thanked LAPH for arranging this sensitization seminar and school campaigns for creating and raising awareness among the students. Hundred of girls and boys students as well as teachers participated the school campaign of awareness rising.
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