Islamabad, August 04, 2021 (PPI-OT): Ministry of Human Rights held a one-day Training Workshop for Lawyers of Punjab on 03rd August 2021 at Session Court Auditorium, Lahore. 30 Lawyers from Lahore participated in this session. Addressing the occasion, the Director-General, Ministry of Human Rights, Muhammad Hasan Mangi said: ‘Ministry of Human Right’s commitment to ensure the protection of Human Rights especially the rights of Children, Women and Transgender Persons – is in line with Pakistan’s constitutional and international obligations.
“Apart from introducing landmark legislation, Ministry of Human Rights is also playing its role in capacity building and awareness-raising of relevant stakeholders with respect to these laws so that Human Rights violations can be prevented”, he said. It is intolerable that in the year 2021, Children and Transgender persons still have to live in an unsafe and exploitative environment and frequently face abuse.”
Encouraging the efforts of the Ministry of Human Rights for arranging this session, Secretary Lahore Bar Association, Mr. Rehan Ahmed Khan, said: ‘Informative and interactive sessions like these should be held by the Ministry more often to raise awareness of the Lawyers about newly enacted laws as it helps them in the courts.’
Qasim Noor Advocate, Lahore Bar Association during his welcome address said that: ‘Lawyers community being one of the most significant association that work for the protection of the people of Pakistan, therefore, it is necessary to engage them in awareness-raising and sensitization programmes where they can be informed about the legislation protecting Human Rights.’
The workshop was focused on two main legislations i.e. Zainab Alert Response and Recovery Act 2020, and the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018. The participants were also informed about the Government’s Redressal Mechanism that is in place in Punjab, especially the Regional Directorate of Human Rights in Lahore, which provides a referral mechanism to the survivors of Human Rights violations in Punjab.
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