Empowerment of the particular groups and/or individual reveals from their/his/her assertion to the rights and resources for which they are entitled. But practical experience exhibits that such empowered people get struck to demonstrate their assertion in those cases where legal complexity gets involved. Ordinary people either do not know the legal procedures and relevant institutions or lack the access or lack the recourses for legal services, as it is very costly in the country to acquire justice from the court.   

According to some estimates 90% of the total populace is unaware of the legal procedure. The remaining 10% has relevant works with the legal procedure or has come to know after suffering. 95 percent of the cases are pertaining to complaints/appeals; however there is only one appellant court in Balochistan. Another important problem is the remoteness of the courts that create impediment for the people to appear in the hearings.   

SEHER ensures the voluntary support to such needy people in accessing to relevant institutions through its legal empowerment program. The program provides free legal aid, legal advice and legal education to the masses in Balochistan in general, while to poor, vulnerable, socially excluded and marginalized segments of society in particular. The beneficiaries of legal aid include minorities, women, children, adolescent, foreign act prisoners, trafficked children and women and children involved in commercial sex trade.

This program of legal empowerment is implemented under the following components

To meet the objective SEHER primarily established a Legal Cell and formed a forum of reputable and enlightened lawyers called SEHER Lawyer's Forum who provides free legal aid to the people in dire need of legal assistance.

Rescue and Rehabilitation Services
Either referred from PASBAN or in Legal Cell itself, the victims are received who are in fear, shock or mantel traumas are given immediate counselling and therapy services. 

The In-charge of Legal Cell immediately passes the subject and the case to Psychologist who is fulltime available to deal with such emergencies cases.

Free Legal Aid to Juvenile Prisoners
SEHER Lawyer Forum plays a key role in rehabilitation of the Juvenile prisoners, especially in terms of providing them free legal aid. The Lawyers Forum also imparts training to juveniles, jail authorities/police and other Law Enforcing Agencies on JJSO, CRC, CEDAW, UHRD and jail Manual.

Para Legal Trainings
People most importantly the target group (minorities, women, children and adolescents) are utterly unaware of the legal procedures. Taking full advantage of their unawareness about the legal procedures, most often, para legal staff exploits their rights and creates legally unneeded hurdles. In most of the cases police does not lodge the FIR for variety of pretexts including protection to influential personalities.

SEHER Lawyers’ Forum provides Para Legal Training to both the youth and the community on need bases. The trainings put special focus on minor legal procedures and human rights issues that help the people a great deal in pursuance of their legal cases.

Helpline for Legal Assistance 
Members of SEHER Lawyers’ Forum are available at the distance of a call. They provide legal assistance to target groups as and when needed. For instance if the police turns down their request  of lodging FIR for legally unnecessary reasons, then SEHER lawyer reach to respective police station and help the victims in lodging their FIR against the perpetrators. 

Repatriations
Women who due to one or the other reason get refuge in Government Shelter Houses, called Dar-ul-Aman, are not much different from the prisoners. Due to traditional and cultural norms and religious influence the Government keeps the security very tight. In order to escape from any disruption the charge of the shelter house has been handed over to Judicial Magistrate and the visitors are required to seek his prior permission for meeting any one within the shelter house premises.

The same mentioned entrance procedure has been applied to all NGOs like SEHER who provide free legal aid and free psychotherapeutic services to victims. This procedure has had a great impact in slowing down the progress. As at a time one written permission is valid for onetime entrance and visit to one specific women.

Repatriation of trafficked/smuggled children/men and women, both from within Pakistan and prisoners of foreign act has also been focused. 

The progress made in this working area is given as hereunder:

Empowerment of the particular groups and/or individual various from their assertion to the rights and resources for which they are entitled. But practical experience exhibits that such empowered people get stuck to demonstrate their assertion in cases where legal complexity gets involved. Ordinary people either do not know the legal procedures and relevant institutions or lack the access or lack the recourses for legal services, as it is very costly in the country to acquire justice from the court. 

According to some estimates 90% of the total populace is unaware of the legal procedure. The remaining 10% has relevant works with the legal procedure or has come to know after suffering. 95 percent of the cases are pertaining to complaints/appeals; however there is only one appellant court in Balochistan. Another important problem is the remoteness of the courts that create impediment for the people to appear in the hearings. 

SEHER ensures the voluntary support to such needy people in accessing to relevant institutions through its legal empowerment program. The program provides free legal aid, legal advice and legal education to the masses in Balochistan in general, while to poor, vulnerable, socially excluded and marginalized segments of society in particular. The beneficiaries of legal aid include minorities, women, children, adolescent, foreign act prisoners, trafficked children and women and children involved in commercial sex trade.

1. This program of legal empowerment is implemented under the following components
2. Recovery, Rescue and Rehabilitation/Repatriation of trafficked human beings
3. Free legal aid to needy people
4. Education of general people on human rights and legal issues
   Legal Empowerment program did the following interventions and produced the desire results

Legal Education:
Generaly poor people accepts the dominance of powerful segment of society due to unawareness of judicial porcedures. They use their ignorance as a tool to manipulate their rights and abuse them at their own vicius wills.

Legal Education in Educational Institutions:
to break this thread of dependancy SEHER began its efforts with educational institutes particularly youths who could acquire and further handdown their legal knowledge to communities.

EHER focused the educational institution in 5 districts of Balochistan and imparted regular (quarterly) basis classes. Legal Education in the broad umbrella of Human Rights Education  did not only focus the students (youth and adolescent) bu alsot the teachers and school managemen.  The exercises and experiences revealed that neither students (youth/adolescent) nor teachers, ever heard most of the human/women/children/legal rights, even they were unaware of very small but very important legal information such as way of ensuring lodge of FIR, testimony, validity of evidences and/or importance of timing in medico legal tests etc. Under the legal education the following efforts were made:

To meet the objective SEHER primarily established a Legal Cell and formed a forum of reputable and enlightened lawyers called SEHER Lawyer's Forum who provides free legal aid to the people in dire need of legal assistance.

Legal Education at Grassroots Level
In context of Balochistan communities in general and women and children and rural population  are virtually deprived of any systematic and regular information/knowledge from outside world, hence SEHER thought it appropriate to reach gross root level directly, instead of through CBOs and/or VOs. Interest of the general masses in the classes/session was remarkable, particularly of women and children, who never heard that they are “right holder”. Almost in all the session across all 5 districts and thousands of villages one response was common that people (men, women, and children in their separate classes/session shared) shared that this is first time in their life they are given so importance and they learnt that they also have right and others have obligation to fullfill them. Legal education at gross roots level spread as bellow

Legal Education of Local Government Representatives:
Local Government system tend to be a gross root level mechanism, hence SEHER thought appropriate to focus the Local Government Representative to be fully sensitized and aware of their own and people of their area legal and constitutional rights, UDHR, CEDAW and CRC. SEHER did not only restricted itself to the elected (Nazims, Naib Nazims, Counsellor, member of Insaf Committees) members but also focused the non-elected members (Musalahati Anjuman members, Notable of the areas and secretary Union Councils) so the learning could go vertically and horizontally simultaneously. Focusing the elected representatives proved to be a very beneficial strategy as they were on front line to deal with the people, particularly, those who were in one way or the other prone to violation of their rights.

There were many reputable but conventional “Local Elite” who were involved in the dispute resolution in the communities, they shared that such information really helps them, because in most of the cases they do not go into deep analysis of the situation and compel the parties to resolve their disputes, which always lack the due consent of the weak and vulnerable (mostly poor, women and children) and the decision is taken. This new learning on one hand enabled them to properly deal the cases even if the case is against “States ” then refer/inform police, while on the other hand give due concentration to the interests of the vulnerable and weak segment of the society while playing their role in dispute resolution

Legal Advice:
Some time people get frustration and without reflecting that their case is not to the point where it is unmanageable, they contact SEHER legal cell and/or SEHER’s Legal team and want to have legal support most of such cases take place in “Civil cases” particularly in family matters. SEHER being right based organization is very conscious to provide any advise and/or Aid to any one, by the time it is not investigated that the case and the client/victims are genuine and eligible SEHER provides the legal advise in the following manners, after the initiated social investigation of the case, if it falls under the preview and fulfils the criteria, Leal Advice take place in the following manner:

Legal Advice, Using Direct Means:
As far as usage of direct means for extending their support in Legal Advice is concern, SEHER’s Legal Advisors use the following method:

(a) Physical Visits of the Legal Cell:
Being a centrally located and well reputed many more people of Quetta city and/or adjoined districts physically visits SEHER legal cell to seek legal advice. Nine to nine team of senior Legal Advisors are available to provide Legal Advise to the visiting/needy ones, they also refer them to the Legal Aid Section in case the case is sensitive and or of more importance:

(b) Meeting the needy/clients/victims in Person
There are many more cases where the needy/victim are so depressed, having no mobility and/or no communication means, even some time no awareness  to contact SEHER’s Legal Cell, hence SEHER Legal Advisors and/or social investigator teams physically visits them and extend their support in terms of Advice, sometime directly intervene and other partly  and resolve the issue and in case of severity and sensitivity refer the needy/victims to Legal Aid Section:

Legal Advise, Using Indirect Means:
Balochistan being the largest province, in terms of area , and with meagre or no means of public transportation, people from far flung areas cannot manage to physically visit the legal Cell, same goes for SEHER teams, they cannot reach each corner of the province physically. Hence a way to serve the needy people, in direct means usage is thought appropriate, in this regard the following method is being/used:

(a) Legal Advice through communication means:
SEHER widely spread its phone, email and post box in all corner of the province through various means . Legal Advisors receives phone cells, emails and letters from all over the province and provide them legal advise accordingly, Legal Aid, refers them to the respective section.

(b) Legal Aid through Radio Channels
Radio is one of the most listened instruments in the electronic media in Balochistan. SEHER also used this medium and advised people. Airtime is purchased and legal programs are on aired, people were calling and seeking Legal Advises from SEHER’s Legal Advisors, off course they were referring those cases to the legal aid section which need help. Through usage of indirect means to the following extend legal Advise are given:

Legal Aid:
Access to Legal Service is fundamentally important in any free and democratic society. But in countries like Pakistan, where institutions are rapidly moving towards collapse, fair and speedy access to justice always remains a dream. Centuries old judicial system, too professionalized lawyers  and obvious loopholes in the investigation  and evidence presentation by police/opponents  makes it game of the resourceful and powerful and either keeps away and victimized the judiciary, poor, resource-less, and marginalized. Complexity, lack of accuseability and less or no awareness of the system further keeps away the ordinary, poor, marginalized people from obtaining “Justice” and further strengthens the already privileged class.

In such a jeopardized judicial situation, process of empowering the vulnerable segment and restoration of their basic human rights, no matter how much it is human centered and right based, the target groups need efficient and responsive support system including judicial system. Hence it was thought appropriate to have full-fledged Legal Aid, to extend support to all those who are in need but due to complexity, access and affordability deprived of it. The whole concept behind the provision of free legal aid was to help the needy, irrespective of the Legal Segregation i.e. civil and criminal cases, their gender,age language, religion and its conceptual framework was based on war between “haves” and “have nots” because “haves” always used the judicial system as tool to sustain their hegemony over the very rigorously pursued the cases which were identified through Legal Education. Offered by courts, Jail authorities and CSOs. Hundreds of cases can be divided in following broad categories: :

Legal Aid to Children
SEHER has very focused work in jails for rehabilitation of juvenile prisoners. It was need to have smooth and efficient legal Aid/Support for children, so their landing in police station and/or jails could be minimized. Hence SEHER legal Experts are not only regularly visiting the police stations, judicial lockups, detention centers, ails and court premises to find needy children and extend their legal support to them. Apart from this needy children either directly contacts SEHER Legal Cell, or refers by other NGOs, Jail/Police authorities, or some of the courts and receives legal aid on regular basis. In this regard up till now following legal Aid/support has been extended to the needy children.

Mentioned above cases and legal support is of only those cases which were filed in different courts in Balochistan, there are hundreds and thousands of cases, where before lodge of FIR SEHER Legal Expert intervened and released the children by taking their guarantee.

Legal Aid to Women:
Women in Balochistan focus gross violation by their own blood relatives, tribe, and kins and society members at large even by the state institutions as Balochistan’s only 05% of the area is in the jurisdiction of Police while rest of the 95% either does not have any Force  or comes under Levies Force , which results majority of the cases unreported and unpunished.

The lives of millions in Balochistan are circumscribed by tradition, which enforces extreme seclusion and submission to men, many whom impose their virtually proprietarily control over women with violence. Women in Balochistan experiences variety of atrocities from discrimination to domestic violence  and from cultural and traditional to the physical and psychological violence through out her life cycle. This cycle starts as early as first day of her birth due to preference of boy child over the girl child. Because violence against women is socially and culturally accepted. Even the reflection of this social and cultural acceptance and “collective mindsets” of their Men counterparts reflects at formal and institutional level, as one can see violence/discriminations got legitimate through Hadood Ordinance and Kanoon-e-Shahadat etc.

Due to perverted tribe norms/ethics and culturally accepted discrimination along with biased and gender insensitive attitude backed by extremist religious thoughts and cultural practices, women are not considered “earning member of the family”. Women’s contribution, irrespective through cash, kind and/or domestic labour isnever considered as their share to the family, even they do not have access and control over the “earning” done by themselves nor their work/contribution in the work at home or in the field, helping their husbands is never acknowledged. Although, the men save lots of labour (many to be given to Labour) by making their wives/daughters/sisters work in the field. Her only acknowledged role is producing children, particularly male child.

Balochistan’s women exhibits a horrifying and sadist framework of our male dominated society where all the formal and informal institution are devised to keep her oppressed. While women in the urban slums and rural setting have added burden of tribal norms, cultural roles, traditional mandate and fundamentalist explanation of women. She is considered a commodity and faces variety of violence including being killed in the camouflage of “Honor’ while being victimized in Karo Kari.

Women’s coordinative status, vulnerability, powerlessness and exclusion from main stream not only put her on high risk of a wide range of discrimination and extreme form i.e. honor killing/karo kari right from household level to the administrative and political level. The gloomier and strange aspect of the whole phenomena is that women are extremely vulnerable and that their opponent (perpetrators rapist, murderers etc) are very powerful and influential, but yet society and most of the time state institution stands with those powerful and influential, which makes them absolute power and women further weaker. It would not be proclaimed that no support mechanism (although there were some good efforts by some credible organizations on raising awareness on women rights) existed, who could either extended their practical support to the survivor of the violence, support of them if they are comfortable with their families (in terms of being violence, child custody, property matters etc) and ensure the protection and survivors of those women who have been declared (due to their own personal gains) kari or in other words there was no support mechanism, which was helping, facilitating and supporting women in their civil and criminal cases in Balochistan.

Keeping in view the situation and need of the women, SEHER took pro-active steps in this regard and started supporting all kinds of cases related to the women. This support was not confined to any specific geographical boundaries of the “Case” the approach was inclusive and all kind of cases. In this regard SEHER’s legal experts have extended their support to hundreds and thousands of women through out in Balohcistan, the following table may explain their endeavours in a better way.

Legal Aid to Minorities
Unlike other province, particularly Punjab, in Blaochistan minorities are never made victim of blasphemy  by either police or extremists and/or other forces. But it does not mean, minorities rights are not violated or they did not face hardships in the province. Being conservative society, minorities are still living in insolated pockets of the city/towns, there is almost non-socialization of the both religious minorities and religious majority (Muslims). Minorities are virtually out from the mainstream development.

Minorities (particularly Christians) live in the congested quarters; they are either tagged for only santory work or be jobless. Less than one percent of the Christians may have non-sanatory jobs at public or private sector, even in that there is no single example that any one is either on senior bureaucratic level or head of any organization. As for as other religious minorities i.e. Hindu, Ahmedi and Parsi are concerned, they are doing well, but through their businesses. As for their participation in the mainstream development politics is concerned they are as excluded as the Christian minority.

The most alarming aspect of the whole question of minorities rights is the attitude of the general public towards minorities. As generally the general public or in other words the religious majority (Muslim) consider the minorities inferior creature, which contributes towards the violation of their basic rights.  There are number of reason and factors which promotes such attitude within the religious majority right from childhood they are reared separately, if by chance children interact with minority’s children are never encouraged, even in some cases they are tortured for their deed. Government never make serious efforts to generate harmony while civil society has given least importance to this issue. Surrounding environments, raise of extremists and dictatorship further aggravated the situation and culminated an indifference of the mainstream political parties, government functionaries, Law Enforcing Agencies, CSOs and even media from the vary important issue of the minorities rights and protection. Hence SEHER focused this important area and extended its support to the minorities in terms of legal aid. In this regard the following efforts are made:

Legal Aid to Prisoners/Shelter Inmates:
Experience shows that there are hundreds and thousands of prisoners, who are deprived of justice because of the lack of required resources and/or procedural and legal complications, hence they need instant support. Basically needy prisoners can be divided in broader categories i.e. Juvenile prisoners, Women Prisoners, Foreigner’s act Prisoners and General prisoners while on the other hand women inmates in shelter house Dar-ul-aman are part of this category.

(a)         Juvenile in Prisoners:
Juvenile prisoners need immediate legal aid, so they could not immerse in the world of crime, WHER extended its support to the juvenile prisoners through out the period and in this regard the following juvenile are provided legal Aid

b)         Legal Aid to Women Prisoners & Dar-ul-Aman Inmates:
Women prisoners and Dar-ul-aman inmates present gloomier picture of the human rights in Balochistan neither they have been provided educational services nor recreational services, nor creative learning (skill Training), nor psycho-counselling services, nor legal aid. Even the physical environment of both Dar-ul-aman and women prisoner barrack are in very bad condition. Hence SEHER did not only focus on the physical improvement of the both women Barrack in the jail and dar-ul-aman.

To some extend it also deputed (although there was no dedicated staff) some of its staff and provided psycho-counselling and provided medicines to Dar-ul-aman on regular bases. As far as legal support is concern it extended complete support to the women prisoners and Dar-ul-aman’s inmates. In this regard the following efforts are made:  

Vagrancy Act is not only a strange act, but being used as tool to provide opportunity to police to arrest any one when they have target to arrest certain number of people and/or Government of the time want to limit their opponent, they use vagrancy act for gross arrests or government of the time wants to demonstrate its displeasure from the neighbouring country  , they use this act for massive arrest of their citizens, living in Pakistan.

Some time even police uses it to either demonstrate their power or to get some money from the arrested victim and/or from their relatives. As police uses this act for their own personal interests, hence, in 99.9% cases they do not lodge any FIR against such arrested victims. This act is known by the politicians, where they are in opposition they do oppose it and demand to refine it, while coming the power, they are the one who uses it against their opponent.

The long term wars effect of such misuse of this act is on one hand it increase hatred against police and further widen the gap between police and public and on the other hand it in some way encourages some of the arrested victims that police station is not such a tough place (as based on influence person’s call, or taking money from them or from their relatives, police releases them) they commit any crime, they can be easily released. In regard to vagrancy act, the following efforts are made:

Public Interest Litigation:
Century’s old and rotten system and unwillingness of the government functionaries result and made the line department almost non-functional majority of the departments (civic and civil and social aspect related) are almost crippled and the staff is neither interested to work nor attend their offices and the monitoring and accountability virtually does not exist. While department (law enforcing agencies) are either involved in unnecessary jobs  or their job is sought of different and and keeps them away from the citizen’s problem or involved in the corruption  or being used for political gains by the ruling party.

Apart from the general legal aid, SEHER also decided to use the window of “public interest litigation” and filed some of the most famous cases of the province’s history. Such initiatives not only encourage the general masses and civil society but also made the government line departments more active, careful and responsible.

Legal Aid to Trafficked/ Smuggled (Human Trafficking)
Human trafficking is complex and multidimensional phenomena. It is a global phenomina that has taken the entire world in it and Pakistan is no exception.

Trafficking invariably involves forcible moment of a person from one place to another and forcible utilization of their services with the intention of inducting them into trade for commercial gain. In some cases consensus is obtained because of the victim’s/survivor’s social condition where victim/survivor is not even aware that s/he is being exploited.

At this point the disagreement emerges between those agencies which are working on human trafficking. As IOM and some other international and national NGOs divide it in two categories i.e. trafficking and illegal migrants, what makes a difference in both is that the person is “deceived” and made him/her to be trafficked, while illegal migrants are those who themselves contact agent and “pay” the agent for their illegal travelling/mobility. While other set of organization like SEHER and some other national and international NGOs agrees with the “definition” in principle, but considers both vulnerable and needy for support because both faces the same hardships, abuse and exploitation during their travel and/or detention centers.

Experiences of the victims/survivors proves that irrespective of being trafficked or irregular migrant the traveller focus the same hardship, abuse and exploitation. They are forced to walk in hills, snows, deserts etc for days and nights. They starve for days, even some time for weeks, they are made to travel in tankers and/or containers in which many time many of the trafficked and smuggled or illegal immigrants die due to suffocation, some time trafficker/agent force them to stay in very congested rooms for weeks without proper eating and air and sometime they are left in between the way and/or  killed/arrested by border security forces of the respective countries.

Abuse and exploitation of the trafficked and/or illegal immigrants is very common, it starts for the source areas and goes on up till destination (even behind) and/or detention center/lockups. In case of adult, their cash and travel necessities are snatched by various countries border law enforcing agencies while in case of children and women, sexual abuse also stipulates with it. However, apart from the hardship of the trafficked and smuggled/illegal migrant, they can be broadly divided into two categories i.e. (a) smuggled/illegal migrant and (b) foreigner’s act prisoners. Bellow details of both may clear the hardships and problem forced by the both categories.

(a)         Smuggled/Illegal Migrants
Balochistan, being transit area witness thousands of smuggled/illegal migrants, most whom are from Punjab-Pakistan. Apart from the hardships, abuse and exploitation during their travel, a vicious cycle of atrocities wait for them once they are in the Quetta FIA detention centre.

Ironically, there are some very special lawyer, who always provide legal support to these deportees. These lawyers make them to call to their parents/relatives  to transfer such amount in some particular account, and its only than lawyer would present them in the court. Actually Pakistan’s lawyers does not give sentence to the Pakistani smuggled/illegal migrant/undocumented travellers, while they are just being “fine” with minimal charges. While these lawyers just make them to compel their parents/relatives to deposit three time than the court fine  and deposit the court fee and keep the rest of amount as their legal fee.

Geographical location and demography of Balochistan provides an easy passage for Human trafficking smugglers. Taftan, mandbilo and Juwani are the common exit points, while rest of the long border is alsoused for such activities by agents. Number of trafficked/smuggled people per year is not known. But one can only guess its quantum through the number of arrested people per year.

(b)        Foreigner’s act Prisoners
Irrespective of being trafficked, smuggled/illegal migrants/undocumented traveller, any one not Pakistani and found at Pakistan’s territory without legal travelling documents is subject to the foreigner’s act, under which up till six month sentence or fine or both can be. Unlike Greece, Syria and Iran, who deports the illegal migrants/undocumented traveller   but Pakistan does not deport any one found/travelling on its territory with out legal documents.

Due to multiple departments/institutions role in foreigner’s act prisoners, procedural complexity and council of access, prisoners spent six to ten times more than their actual sentence. During their sentence period, they are very miserable, sometime even they do not have simple envelop to send a letter to their home since last 4 years SEHER provided legal support, released and repatriated the following foreigner’s12.4      Orientations and capacity Building:

Orientation and capacity building of various stakeholders is indispensable in provision of legal support and defending Human Rights. Because, it is impossible for any organization to reach to each needy or extend its support to every one, hence it needs thousands of sensitive individuals to support more and more people. Hence, in this regard SEHER has organized many orientations and/or trainings for various key stakeholders so they could extend their support, within their jurisdiction, to the needy people, in this regard the following efforts are made:

Para Legal Training of the youth/CBOs:
Youth and CBOs exits in all vicinities, many youth/CBOs also want to contribute towards defending Human Rights, but due to lack of proper awareness/skill/knowledge or guidance or technicality or due to lack of required capacity they are unable to play their role SEHER has designed a very comprehensive “para Legal Training” for such youth and CBOs to extend their support to the needy people of their areas. SEHER not only trained huge number of youth/CBOs but also made their linckages with each other and SEHER to ensure immediate support in those cases which behind their individual capacity.

During the last four years members and together 2792 members of CBOs and youth are trained on Para Legal, who is in one way or the other play their role for addressing Human Rights issues in their respective areas.

Orientation of Law Enforcing Agencies on Police Order:
Law enforcing Agencies play primary role in violation or for that matter restoration of Human Rights. Apart from their tough in-service training, which teaches them to treat people very strictly, they are completely unaware of the rights of Human, even they have never heard about any convention guarantees the rights of the people, particularly, where it is signed by Government of Pakistan. Hence SEHER thought it appropriate to train them on essential laws (police ordinance 2001 and JJSO) and important convention (UDHR, CEDAW, CRC, CAT) so they could play their due role in ensuring the rights of the public. In this regard the following efforts and results are made:

Orientation of Judges on various conventions and legal & Constitutional Rights
One of the most crucial areas in restoration of Human Rights is vibrant Judicial System. While, without proactive judges, vibrant judicial system might remain a dream. In due course of action to address the human rights issues in province, SEHER learnt that to large extend the judges particularly lower courts are not aware of various conventions, which really compliance with Pakistan citizen’s conventional rights. Keeping in view the mentioned above situation, SEHER decided to focus the judicial system and impart orientation on various international Conventions, particularly on Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Convention on Elimination of all form of Discrimination against women (CEDAW), convention on the rights of Children (CRC) and convention against torture (Cat). Following table may explain the efforts in more explanatory way.

Orientation of Bar Association(s) on various International Conventions:
Bar and Bench are equally important, only aware and sensitized judges may not produce the desired results, if lawyers are also not that much aware and sensitized. Experience also proves that very senior lawyers are even unaware of the UDHR and other international conventions. It is next to impossible to reach each lawyer or reach to maximum number of lawyer in cost effective manner, hence it was thought appropriate to orient Bar Association in the provincial capital. Following table may exhibit the efforts and result of the intervention in better way.