Director, Human Rights , Ministry of Human Rights (MoHRs), Ghulam Ali has said that Higher Education Commission (HEC) is working on the inclusion of the subject of Human Rights in the curriculum of all universities in the country. He was addressing a seminar organized in connections with the International Women Day here at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) on Monday. The titled of the seminar was Human Rights Education and Sensitization.
Other who addressed the seminar included Professor Khizer Alam and Dr Sehar Noor Zaman. The Director Human Rights said that out of the total nine international conventions on human rights, the government of Pakistan had already ratified seven conventions. He said that after the ratification, the country is also bound to conduct reporting on them and then submit them to the international organizations.
For the purpose of monitoring and reporting on human rights, he said the government has offices to work for the promotion and protection of the human rights. He said that the Ministry has also established a complaint cell, whose telephone number has been circulated widely through media.
The toll-free number 1099, he said can be contacted without any charges to register complaints regarding the violation of human rights while a formal application can also filed in this regard. Ghulam Ali said that under the criminal justice system, the ministry has started providing compensation to victims and for this purpose data is being collected. Similarly, he said that endowment fund has also been established for financial compensation to victims while relief and revolving fund is established for the provision of financial assistance to the victims of rape and other such crimes. He told that the recent meeting has approved such fund for the victims of 17 cases of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He said that Islam is the first religion, which guaranteed the protection of human rights and requested the people to avoid terming it as Western agenda.