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Begging: A Blot

T ake a look through these pics, snapped just last week 16 December 2018 at Town Hall.   It is a blot on the fair name of our country. Begging is an evil though in Pakistan it has become an organised profession. Almost at every step, one is greeted by a beggar.  As a concept and in practice, begging is a complex, ambivalent phenomenon which can be witnessed all over the world but in terms of scale remains larger still in developing countries such as Pakistan. Within the context of Pakistan, people are often divided on their views on begging, creating a division of standpoints; those who empathize with the issue and those who are critical of it.  With the perspective of the begging, PHF organized a campaign to prohibit this custom which is the result of guilt. This campaign is about requesting citizens to stop giving out money to street children which they usually do out of sympathy, and instead donate it to those working for children’s education.  There are 25 mi

Activity on International Human Rights Day

Every year, December 10 th  is marked as the  Human Rights Da y . On this day in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) followed and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that lists down basic human rights guaranteed to the population of the world.   PHF also conducted an activity based on Human Rights Day at PU Gender Studies with CWS on 10th December 2018. PHF realizes that we should make a number of efforts at national level to provide and protect fundamental Human Rights. Because majority of population is still deprived from their basic fundamental rights. Many times people are killed or beaten to death if they give their opinion against the poor performance of the authorities or institutions. PHF also highlighted and raise the voices to adopt proper measures in order to protect the right to quality of education and employments, freedom of speech and expression.  Seriously efforts are needed to eradicate this evil. The purpo