Towards Institution Building and Cultural Growth
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...
27 September, 2022
Fempower Pakistan
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...
26 September, 2022
Amplify Change
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...
19 September, 2022
From the Politics of Vulnerability to the Politics of Voice
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...
19 September, 2022
Lahore Walled City Community Project: Planting the Seeds of Change III
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...
17 March, 2020
Simorgh’s Teachers Education Project
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...
17 March, 2020
Changing Narratives of Empowerment: Trajectories of Desire and the Mediation of Socio-Cultural Spaces
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...
17 March, 2020
Partnerships and Networks
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...
17 March, 2020
Worlds in the Making
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...
17 March, 2020
Ours by Right
The Overall Objective of this Project is to raise awareness on women’s rights as equal citizen’s and counter GBV especially forced marriage and denial of inheritance/land-ownership through the improvement of women’s condition and status by enabling them/their concerned family member’s (i.e. target groups)access to :...
17 March, 2020
The Peaceful Alternative-Sufis, Mazars, People’s Religion and the Feminine Voice
Objectives : To explore (i) the syncretism of the Suffic strand in religion and especially its roots in religio-cultural rituals that are common to the different religious communities of this area and (ii)the centrality of both the female voice and poetry, music and dance Suffic...
17 March, 2020
Tracking Change – the Impact of the Dars on Women’s Lives
Background ‘Tracking Change – the impact of women’s religious gatherings on their lives’ was a short project to supplement research undertaken as part of the larger Pathways to Women’s Empowerment Project. As Simorgh’s was a small 18 month component of the project, it allowed for...
17 March, 2020
Earth Quake Relief: The Shang School Project
As part of its’ earthquake relief activity Simorgh decided to put up a school in the village Shang, Battagram.It did this in partnership with Lahore Grammar School 55 Main Gulberg and Lahore Grammar School, Johar Town Branch. This decision was based on the desire to...
17 March, 2020
Women’s Empowerment in Muslim Contexts (WEMC)
In partnership with Shirkat Gah and the Agha Khan University Community Health Department. Simorgh became part of the WEMC programme. This project is part of a four-country action research project. Although Simorgh did not get an opportunity to carry on with this project for long,...
17 March, 2020
The Lahore Walled City Project: Planting the Seeds of Change II
This project was conducted from July 2005 to December 2007. It was an awareness raising research project. A series of workshops, lectures, discussion sessions, activities were held in the pursuance of this project. Prior to and during the duration of this project Simorgh visited various...
17 March, 2020
