Community Awareness Campaign On

Human Rights and Gender Equality

In

Rural Villages of District Benazir Abad (Nawabshah)

Human Rights and Gender Equality Awareness Campaign in

Rural Villages of District Benazir Abad (Nawabshah)
An Introduction
SANGAT Development Foundation (SDF) is community based non-
governmental Organization, launched with its mission to work for
environmentally sustainable development and water and sanitation
education especially in remote and backward areas of District Shaheed
Benazirabad (Nawabshah).
SDF has taken a number of community-based capacity building and
awareness initiatives, including seminars on different issues confronting the
downtrodden in remote and backward areas.
• SANGAT Development Foundation is member of District Advisory and
Coordination Committee (DCC), WWF-Indus for All programme of
Nawabshah District.
• SANGAT Development Foundation is member of International Human
Rights Commission (IHRC).
• SANGAT Development Foundation Nawabshah is a focal Point on Water
and Sanitation by FANSA-Pakistan (Fresh Water Action Network South
Asia-Pakistan) for the districts of Nawabshah and Naushoro Feroz, Sindh.

• SANGAT Development Foundation Nawabshah is a District Focal

Organization on Health issues of the network of The Asia Foundation,
Pakistan

• SANGAT Development Foundation Nawabshah is a District Focal

Organization on Peace issues of the network of Pakistan Peace Coalition
(PPC) Pakistan

SANGAT Partners
• Plan International
• ActionAid, International, Pakistan
• The Asia foundation (TAF)
• WWF-Pakistan
• UNDP
• Election Commission of Pakistan
• District Government, Shaheed Benazirabad (Nawabshah)
• Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI)
• Sindh Rural Support Program (SRSP)
• Department of Neuro Surgery, People Medical College/Hospital
Nawabshah

Human Rights and Gender Equality Awareness Campaign in

Rural Villages of District Benazir Abad (Nawabshah)
"……recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable
rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom,
justice and peace in the world"

Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

An awareness sessions with local rural community on Human Rights and

Gender Equality was held at Union Council (UC) Jhuro Shar by SANGAT
Development Foundation in order to create awareness on human rights and
focusing on gender equality rights.

Sangat team first invited the local community members to share their views
regarding the understanding of human rights and especially of gender
equality rights.

While delivering the lecture, Mr. Nisar A. Brohi, Director, SANGAT

Development Foundation discussed in detail on violation of human rights
and gender equality related issues in the rural areas of the district and also
got realized the local community of their responsibility to play their due role
in stopping the violation of human rights and gender equality rights.
Mr. Brohi further said human rights refer to the basic rights and freedoms to
which all human are entitled to have rights of freedom. Freedom of exercise
of their civil and political rights such as the rights to life and liberty,
freedom of expression and equality before the law and economic, social and
cultural rights including the right to participate in culture, the rights to food,
the right to work and the work to education.

Human Rights and Gender Equality Awareness Campaign in

Rural Villages of District Benazir Abad (Nawabshah)
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are
endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in
a spirit of brotherhood.
But it has been noticed that we at an individual, community, societal level
are the fore-runner of the human rights violations, but on the other side
demanding our rights at first. It would not be an exaggeration to say that we
do make efforts to protect our rights at individual level but not as a
community or a nation.
However, until and unless we donot make joint efforts for the protection of
our collective rights, we donot have an access to our individual rights.
Therefore, we should collectively make efforts for the protection of our
rights enshrined in our constitution as well as in international conventions as
human rights.

When we talk about the human rights, we should not ignore or bypass the
rights of our women community, which are being bitterly violated by male
community at present. However, women rights violation is at the alarming
level in our rural areas of the country.
As for as our gender equality is concerned it is also known as gender equity,
gender egalitarianism or sexual equality.
Gender equality means the equality of the gender or the sexes. Gender
equality has been defined by various ways, as the UNICEF defines gender
equality as "levelling the playing field for girls and women by ensuring that
all children have equal opportunity to develop their talents. The UNPF
declared gender equality "first and foremost, a human right".

Human Rights and Gender Equality Awareness Campaign in

Rural Villages of District Benazir Abad (Nawabshah)
However, there is dire need to work for the awareness of the human rights
and gender equality especially in the rural areas of the district, due to lack of
education and awareness, the violation of human and gender rights is at
alarming level.

Let us join hands to work for a society, where all individuals should have
equal rights, especially vulnerable community groups especially the women.

Human Rights and Gender Equality Awareness Campaign in

Rural Villages of District Benazir Abad (Nawabshah)