National
February 5, 2021
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Affairs Ijaz Alam Augustine has said the provincial government is set to introduce an interfaith harmony policy, which is aimed to promote peaceful coexistence between diverse citizenry of Punjab.
He was speaking at multi-stakeholder dialogue: âTowards Improved Human Rights Protection in Punjabâ, jointly organised by the Democracy Reporting International and Punjab Human Rights and Minority Affairs Department.
The minister said: âWe need to change societal behaviour to ensure respect for peopleâs rights, especially of minority communities.â While speaking on the occasion, Tahir Khalil Sindhu, chairperson of the Punjab Assemblyâs Standing Committee on Human Rights and Minorities Affairs, extended support to human rights stakeholders. He informed the participants that meetings of the standing committee were not being held due to the mandate limitation of the committee ch
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Govt, civil society partnership important for development
Islamabad
January 18, 2021
Islamabad : Syeda Adeela Bokhari from Economic Affairs Division has said that the ministry has devised a new draft policy to ensure the accountability and financial transparency of the INGOs/NGOs which will be implemented after the formal approval from the federal cabinet.
Ms Adeela was addressing a webinar on ‘The State of Civil Society in Pakistan’ jointly organised by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) here Saturday.
Ms Adeela said that her division regulates only those INGOs which receive a financial contribution from the foreign countries and donors. She said that the new policy is expected to respond to various issues and concerns of the sector. Besides, a web-portal is being created to facilitate online applications for the registration of INGOs/NGOs with the EAD.
MNAs call for enhancing Parliamentary oversight of govt’s COVID-19 response
January 14, 2021
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Key members of the Parliamentary Task Force on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) called for enhancing parliamentary oversight of the government’s response to COVID-19 in various sectors and asked the government to convene a session of the National Assembly which has not met during the last two months.
These views were expressed by Members of the Taskforce on SDGs at a Consultative Session on Improving Parliamentary Oversight of government’s COVID-19 response with the MNA and Convenor of the Taskforce on SDGs Riaz Fatyana, organized by the SDGs Secretariat in collaboration with the Democracy Reporting International (DRI) in Islamabad on Thursday.