MoHR spending Rs 20 mln on awareness campaign about HR.

ISLAMABAD -- The Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) was spending Rs 20 million during the current financial year 2019-20 for effective awareness programme about human rights, said an official.

Talking to reporter, he said total allocations for the project was Rs 55 million. The project has been developed to create human rights awareness in targeted districts.

He said the main aim of the project was to increase the people's understanding and knowledge about human rights in Islam and fundamental human rights enshrined in the Constitution of Pakistan and domestic national laws for human rights.

To sensitize rural and urban communities for behavioral change towards certain human rights issues particularly gender based violence; to develop communication strategy to address major human rights issues particularly violence against women, women's inheritance rights, child abuse, transgender, minorities...