CSAP

Civil Society Association of Pakistan A Non-Profit Organization

Basic Human Rights

What Are Human Rights?

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more.  Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.

CSAP promotes policies and programs that protect and further the rights of women, men and youth. The CSAP perform a major role in providing Human Rights. We want educated and healthy society in which Man, women and children have equal Rights. The CSAP working hard to develop a society in which individuals are aware of the basic right and are provided with equal opportunities to access health, educational and other facilities. Women and children, the most vulnerable segments of society, having easy access to their basic rights and justice. CSAP wants To use sustainable development to create a next generation of global citizens who have the chance to fulfill their potential and contribute to a peaceful, integrated society. We focus our programmes on quality and not quantity and believe that education and healthcare are the keys to financial empowerment thus ensuring that in the long term communities are empowered to help lift themselves out of poverty and ensure that basic human rights are secured for future generations.

Outreach

  • Increasing public participation
  • Communications campaigns
  • Research & publications

Advocacy and policy change

  • Government capacity building
  • Civil society capacity building
  • Facilitating dialog between civil society and governments

Services and programs

  • Entrepreneurial training
  • Leadership development
  • Mentoring
  • Trafficking prevention
  • Child labor
  • Legal literacy

Economic, social and cultural rights

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights entered into force in 1976. The human rights that the Covenant seeks to promote and protect include:

  • the right to work in just and favourable conditions;
  • the right to social protection, to an adequate standard of living and to the highest attainable standards of physical and mental well-being;
  • the right to education and the enjoyment of benefits of cultural freedom and scientific progress.

Civil and political rights

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its First Optional Protocol entered into force in 1976. The Second Optional Protocol was adopted in 1989.

The Covenant deals with such rights as freedom of movement; equality before the law; the right to a fair trial and presumption of innocence; freedom of thought, conscience and religion; freedom of opinion and expression; peaceful assembly; freedom of association; participation in public affairs and elections; and protection of minority rights. It prohibits arbitrary deprivation of life; torture, cruel or degrading treatment or punishment; slavery and forced labour; arbitrary arrest or detention; arbitrary interference with privacy; war propaganda; discrimination; and advocacy of racial or religious hatred.