Program of the Pakistan Institute of Human Rights

The institute is primarily running four research programs in pursuance of its basic aims and objectives in addition each program is running at least one project  to promote and achieve its target and goals.

Presently PHIR is running following programs:

1. Human Rights Education Program: The main objective of this program is to promote education in remote areas of Pakistan with the primary focus on the religious seminaries (Madrasas) and also to introduce human rights as a subject in academic institutions, including primary, secondary and higher education institutions. Presently PIHR is running a huge project under this program to introduce contemporary education in more than Three Hundred Madrasas of South Punjab, Northern Sindh and Eastern Balochistan in collaboration with “Wahdat Foundation Pakistan”.

2. Human Rights Research and Development Program: This program is aimed to promote research facilities among the research fellows in Pakistan and to coordinate the on going research. Apart from promotion of academic research the Institute convenes and facilitates conferences, symposia, seminars and workshop etc in the field of human rights. Under this program the Institute is presently running a project called “Transparency Pakistan” under which the Institute is preparing a state of the are data base with a search engine to compile each and every relevant document and information relating to Pakistan in the areas of : politics, policies, governance, law, history and international relations etc in order to provide a best research tool for human rights activists, politicians, policy makers and academicians alike.

3. ESC Rights Promotion Program: This program is targeted to promote all kinds of Economical, Social and Cultural (ESC) Rights with the preference over civil and political rights. Under this program the institute is running a project “Promotion of Consumers Rights”. In past the Institute executed a project for “Protection of Environmental Pollution Caused by Oil Tanker (Tasmania) in the Coastal Areas of Karachi”.