Kamran
Michael
JRH 2/3/17
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ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS
By Shamim Mahmood
Sent 1/31/2017 5:11 PM
Islamabad (Shamim Masih): Since assuming his office
as Minister for Human Rights in May 2016, Senator Kamran Michael has taken
historic measures to ensure protection of basic human rights of common
citizens, with a specific focus on the delivery of rights for children, women,
marginalized groups and religious and ethnic minority groups in across country.
Earlier, when this government took rule in 2013, Prime
Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif had
appointed Kamran Michael as Minister for Ports and Shipping. However, the
responsibilities of Senator Kamran were switched to Human Rights keeping in
view his tremendous performance as Minister for Human Rights
Punjab. Following taking charge of his new assignment, Kamran Michael has
worked day and night to ensure immediate redressal of rights to all minority
groups in Pakistan. In this regard, the minister visited various areas of the
country to ensure rights to children, women and minorities including prisoners
across the country.
The biggest contribution of the federal minister is various
laws enacted or tabled in the Parliament to protect minorities’ rights,
including Anti-Rape, Honor Killing, Criminal Bill Amendment Act 2016, Hindu
Marriage Act, Christian Marriage and Divorce Bill, Child and Women Protection
Bill, etc. Serious attention has been given by the honorable minister for
implementation of Action Plan on Human Rights approved by the Prime Minister
during 2016. A task force under the
chairmanship of Senator Kamran Michael has been established to expedite the
implementation by federal and provincial functions.
In this regard, the minister visited Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Center for Women, and ordered
the improvement of basic needs to the victim children, women and groups
arriving to seek assistance at the center. He also directed immediate financial
and legal support to the victims of domestic violence and provision of
immediate security, shelter, food, advocacy and counseling to the victims.
Under the objective of protection and promotion of human
rights coupled with attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [Blog
Editor: “SDGs” are a part of the UN Agenda 2030 globalist
paradigm. I am not a big fan of anything coming from the UN and this especially
the case of Agenda 2030. It is my opinion this UN Agenda threatens the
sovereignty and Constitution of the USA. ON THE OTHER HAND, at least portions
of Agenda 2030 can actually be productive for a nation such as Pakistan in
providing hope toward upward mobility for downtrodden minorities.], the
minister directed to improve the Toll Free Helpline 1099 through
which the victims could seek all sorts of assistance free of cost.
In compliance of the minister’s directive, now the victims
from across the country can register their complaints and seek assistance on
the toll free helpline 1099. This will be available 24/7 very soon. Moreover,
other than shelter and food, the complainants can also get legal
advice from experts on human rights violations and quick relief is provided to
them, their families and other vulnerable segments of the society. The Helpline
received 41,510 complaints during the year 2016 while 4969 calls were received
for general information and 3,073 victims were provided legal advice and 33,089
were irrelevant/unnecessary calls.
To protect the human rights at grass roots level, the federal
minister has directed to establish Human Rights Committees at the district
levels. The district level committees would be working in collaboration with
the local government under the supervision of Federal Ministry for Human Rights
to take immediate action on receiving complaints of violation of human rights.
In appreciation of the human rights activists, the ministry
of the human rights organized a Human Rights Award ceremony on the occasion of Human Rights Day December 10, 2016 at Awan-e-Saddar where forty activists were given awards for
their contributions for human rights by the President of Pakistan.
Promoting the basic rights and interfaith harmony, Ministry
of Human Rights in collaboration of Ministry of Railway also launched a Christmas Peace Train. The
Ministry of Human Rights also organized Sports Festival for Minorities. The
Christmas Peace Train successfully completed its journey from Peshawar to
Karachi starting from December 22, 2016 to January 05, 2017. The train was
warmly welcomed by people at large at different stations of the country. The
World and European Union has appreciated this idea.
Human Rights Ministry has also launched the Human Rights
Song, “Rooti Ankh K Anso Ponchein” to promote the humanity. Famous classical
singer Shafaqat Salamat and the Federal Minister for Human Rights, Senator
Kamran Michael has sung this song.
Be Blessed,
Shamim Mahmood
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