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By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Foundation for Research and Human development (FRHD), in collaboration with Action Aid, arranged a prospect for children’s councils comprising of young activist from government schools to meet and have one-on-one discussion with Provincial Ombudsman, Sindh, Asad Ashraf Malik.  The meeting with Ombudsman was held at the Sindh Secretariat in Karachi with the primary objective of providing an opportunity to children for discussing education-related issues that negatively impede with their academics and integrate vulnerable children with education.  The students discussed the issues bothering them face to face with the Mohtasib who promised to take immediate notice in order to rectify the problems.  The three key problems that the students were able to highlight among others were the mismanagement and corruption of School Management Committee (SMC) fund in government schools, students being depr...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Foundation for Research & Human Development (FRHD), as part of the Global Action Week (GAW), will organize a walk from the Scouts Headquarter to the Karachi Press Club on April 29 while a delegation, comprising of children, will meet the Sindh Education Minister, Nisar Ahmed Khoro, on April 30.  Members of the civil society will be joining the children to convey a loud message to the policy makers, legislators and others implementing agencies about realization of the educational goals.  Education is human rights, a public, good and a state responsibility.Pakistan remains obliged under various national and international commitments to provide quality education to children irrespective of their gender, class or religion.  At the forefront of these declarations is the Dakar Framework of Action, signed by 163 other countries in April 2000 and the world’s leaders made a series of promises int...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The  Foundation for Research & Human Development (FRHD), a  group of social activists, parliamentarians and ex-government officials having been registered under the   S ocieties Registration Act 1860, would like to fill the research gaps in the field of human rights, child rights, women rights, labour rights, social and development rights of marginalized groups in society. Besides, it would like to develop moralized social groups by participative and self-initiated developmental programmes and schemes. This was disclosed by Nazra Jehan, Executive Director, FRHD, in an interview who added that  the  core values and principles of the organization, on which it was found, were equality, equity, non-discrimination, dignity, respects, openness, transparency and good governance. The vision of the FRHD is to have a society where writ of law would have prime consideration and justice woul...