All Pakistan Women's Association (APWA), President and Executive Committee members celebrated the Human Rights Day on Wednesday. It adhered to the General Assembly Declaration that a "common standard of achievement for all peoples and nations" pertaining to human rights is an integral part of the conscience of all communities, if the global prospect of peace is to be attained by the United Nations.
The formal inception of the Human Rights Day dates from 1950 and the appointed 10 December as its day to focus the world attention on. The Charter bodies that ordinate are inter governmental and meet in Geneva. They are composed of 47 elected United Nation Member States. Since its founding by Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, APWA has always observed this day in programmes at its various schools all over Pakistan. APWA wants to protect the women and girl child by championing their human rights and thus according to APWA, is in educating the female segment of our land.
Our government has adopted many Human Rights injunctions but the implementation has been very slow because by less information has been sent to the various organising departments and the public is unaware. In a session by Aurat NGO reporting on the unawareness of the law prohibiting domestic violence, punishable by jail, only a small percentage of police stations were aware of this placement of the rule.
They found that 50% of even graduate women suffered from domestic violence and were silent, because of parental, social pressure or being unaware of the domestic violence law. The event on human rights was discussed by many speakers where salient loop holes in law injunction were discussed in detail.-PR