The project aims to increase the political empowerment and enjoyment of rights by women, particularly young women, marginalized groups, and those at risk. The project also seeks to empower the poor and marginalized, especially women to articulate their concerns, exercise political choice and hold decision...
Simorgh has been a member organization of the AWHRC since 1988,when it was formed in Bangkok to (i)examine and address the lacunae in the UN Charter of Human Rights from a third world perspective and (ii)to work regionally and locally for the rights of women...
In this ongoing project Simorgh is currently working on active participation of the women in economics social and political matters. This project major aims to transform the politics of women‘s vulnerability into the politics of voice by boosting their Confidence, their active participation in the...
The project aimed to recognize the right to freedom of thought, expression and belief is afundamental human right, and along with the acceptance of diversity and difference forms thecornerstone of meaningful democracy. The project sought to work with the students and faculty ofinstitutions of higher...
Worlds in the Making- Our bodies- Our lives 2016- 2018 Body Politics- Breaking the season of silence 2017- 2019 Worlds in the Making- Pushing the Boundaries 2019-2020 Our Bodies Our Lives-Pushing the Boundaries- Extended Outreach 2020- 2021 Main Objective To create new, and enlarge existing spaces for women for information...
Planting the Seeds Change III is a community project for women in Lahore’s Walled City. Starting initially with students of the Fatima Jinnah College for Women in Chuna Mandi, it slowly gained ground among women living in the environs of Yakki, Delhi and Kashmiri Gates with outreach to women from other...
This Project was one for teacher’s education on Human Rights and Participatory Teaching Methodology through workshops with school teachers. In all 6 workshops were conducted to educate the teachers all of which came from different backgrounds/income sectors.These workshops were third in the series undertaken by Simorgh since 1997.Simorgh has been...
A comparative action-research project undertaken jointly with BRAC University Dhaka as part of the ‘Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Consortium’. Simorgh is a member of the South Asia Hub located in Dhaka. Simorgh was invited by BRAC University Dhaka as a South Asia Hub partner of Pathways of Women’s...
Lahore Grammar School System, Lahore: Lahore Grammar School (LGS) which now comprises a chain of school based mainly in Lahore but with branches in Karachi, Islamabad, Multan and Faisalabad, was found by group of women in 1976. Conceived as a liberal/ progressive coeducational venture, one year before General Zia-ul- Haq’s...
A Simorgh Human Rights Foundation Project The ‘ Worlds in the Making,’ a teacher’s education project through workshops on Human Rights and Participatory Learning, was designed as a 10 month activity for 2008-2009 comprising 6 workshops with teachers from different schools from high and low income sectors. Advocacy through human...