Subject Human Rights in Pakistan

Course Title: Human Rights in Pakistan

Course Code: PST-608

Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Outline:

1. Conceptual Foundation of Human Rights

• What are Human Rights? Definition and explanation of Human Rights
• Significance and Importance
• Rights and Responsibilities at local, community, national, and international levels

2. Islamic Concept of Human Rights

3. UN Declaration of Human Rights

• Safeguards of Human Rights under international law

4. Agencies and Sources of Human Rights in Pakistan

• Governmental Legislative Enactments and the Constitution
• Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

5. Specific Areas of Human Rights Enforcement in Pakistan

• Crime Risk Management
• Governance and Social Justice (Management of public grievances)
• Women’s Rights and Gender Relations
• Children’s Rights and Child Abuse
• Police and Law and Order (Including traffic rights and social harmony)
• Legal Justice
• Crisis Management
• Health, Education, and Poverty Alleviation
• Employment on Merit

Recommended Books:

1. Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. State of Human Rights in Pakistan (1994 – 2000).
2. Brownlie, Ian (Ed.). Human Rights in the 21st Century.
3. Davis, Peter (Ed.). Human Rights. London, 1997.
4. Khutba-e-Hajja-tul-Wida