Human Rights Organization Of Pakistan



The Human Rights Organization Of Pakistan Urdu: اداره حقوق انسانى پاكستان or HROOP, is an independent, non-profit organization , founded in 2009,made by Old Ravian's(old student GC University Lahore) and Government approval number RP/4742/L/S/09/118.Which is not associated or affiliated with the any political party. Where the Organization believes human rights are not being adequately protected, it will say so clearly and strongly, and will actively seek change in the law, policy or practice concerned.
In carrying out its functions, the organization will operate in an independent, fair, open, accessible and accountable manner and will seek to use to the full the powers conferred upon it.
The Organization will seek to increase awareness of human rights protections and how to access them, striving to create a strong, pervasive culture of human rights at all levels within the State.
The Organization will work closely and, where appropriate, collaboratively with statutory bodies, Government Departments, non-governmental organisations and all involved in human rights issues, It is committed to act with Impartiality and objectivity in all matters. Among its main aims are spreading awareness of Human Rights among the people, mobilising public opinion, collecting information and disseminating knowledge about human rights abuses. The Organization focus on various activities under following components
HROOP Moto.
To Prosper Humanity Rights
To Protect Human Rights
Active to protect the basic human rights like
  • Child rights
  • Women's rights
  • Minority rights
  • Labor rights
  • Social rights
  • Civil rights
  • Economic rights
  • Legal rights
  • Cultural rights
  • Land rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The General Assembly Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction
Article I
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 14
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15
Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Article 16
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21
Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Article 23
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Article 26
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Article 28
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 30
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

 Old notable alumni GC University Lahore

Notable Alumni
In 1864,about 144 years ago,Government College Lahore was founded. from 144 years, the period of Government College Lahore is very significant due to the reason that, its majority of student also worked volunteerly along with the study and showed great performance at both national and international level.Its first principal was W.Lines who was come from the University fried breg which is also a back bone of Punjab University.After 138 years,from foundation,it became an independent University in 2002,GC initated its work also as a University.It is one of the greatest institutes of Pakistan,in which the most intelligent/hardwork students of the country take education.Old students of GC are called Old Ravians.One of the Most interesting thing of GC is that, it is also an education place of many great and famous people of Pakistan.In Pakistan, there are 37 scientists who involed in making Pakistan Atomic Power the 27 scientist out of these 37 are Old Ravians and it making it (GC) Paris worthy.
Politicians
  • Muhammad Zafrulla Khan - First Foreign Minister of Pakistan, President of United Nations General Assembly, President of International Court of Justice
  • Yousaf Raza Gillani, Prime Minister of Pakistan
  • Nawaz Sharif, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
  • Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
  • Moeen Qureshi - Former Interim Prime Minister of Pakistan
  • Inder Kumar Gujral - former Prime Minister of India
  • Wasim Sajjad - Former Chairman, Senate of Pakistan. Also interim President of Pakistan
  • Wajid Ali Khan - Member of Parliament of Canada and advisor to Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper.
  • Harcharan Singh Brar - Former Chief Minister Of Punjab (India) & Former Governor of Haryana & Orissa.
  • Mahbub ul Haq - Former Finance Minister of Pakistan, Chief Economist Planning Commission, Director of World Bank Policy Planning Department.
  • Dr. Ghulam Hussain - Former Federal Minister for Railways and Ex-Secretary-General of Pakistan People's Party.
  • S.M. Zafar - Senator, Former Law Minister and leading constitutional lawyer.
  • Kamaluddin Azfar - Former Governor of Sindh
  • Aseff Ahmad Ali - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and current Deputy Chairman Planning Commission
  • Aitzaz Ahsan - Barrister, Former Federal Minister of Interior, Law & Justice, former President of Supreme Court Bar Association.
  • Shahbaz Sharif - Chief Minister Punjab, Pakistan
  • Chowdry Anwer Aziz - Former Federal Minister of Agriculture & Food.
  • Salmaan Taseer - Governor Punjab
Government officials
  • S.K. Mahmud - Former Secretary to the Government Of Pakistan & Chief Secretary Punjab
  • Aziz Ahmed - Former Secretary General Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • Shoaib Sultan Khan - Former Secretary to the Government Of Pakistan.
  • Sikander Hayat Jamali - Former Federal Secretary of Education, Environment,Parliamentary Affairs & Former Chief Secretary Balochistan
  • Shamshad Ahmed - Former Secretary Of Foreign Affairs
  • Naveed Ahsan - Former Secretary General Ministry of Finance
  • Zafar Mahmood - Cabinet Secretary to the Government of Pakistan
  • Javed Mahmood- Chief Secretary Punjab
  • Musa Javed Chohan - former ambassador to France, Malaysia
  • Shahid kamal - Ambassador of Pakistan to the federal Republic of Germany.
  • Hafeez-Ur-Rahman - Chief Financial Advisor to Ministry of Interior
  • Muhammad Nawaz Chaudhry - writer,analyst,diplomat, served as Ambassador to Myanmar and Serbia.
  • Malik Zahoor Ahmad - diplomat, Middle East/South Asia expert, political analyst.
  • Ahmed Waqar - Chairman FBR, Former Federal Secretary of Petroleum & Privatization Commission.
  • Kanwar Muhammed Dilshad - Secretary Election Commission Of Pakistan
  • Kamran Lashari - Federal Secretary of Petroleum & Natural Resources,Ex-Chairman CDA & LDA.
  • Sadatullah Khan - Ex-Inspector General Of Punjab Police.
Army officers
  • Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir - former Chief of Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force.
  • Lieutenant General Hamid Gul-Retierd,Ex Director General ISI , Pakistan Army.
  • Lieutenant General Muhammad Ashraf Saleem - , Commander Army Air Defence Command.
  • General Shamim Alam Khan , NI(M), SJ, SBt
Nuclear scientists
  • Dr. Samar Mubarakmand, experimental nuclear physicist and missile engineer.
  • Munir Ahmad Khan , nuclear engineer and chief architect of Pakistan's nuclear program and Chairman of PAEC from 1972 to 1991; IAEA Staff Member, 1958–72; Chairman IAEA Board of Governors 1986-87.
  • Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad,a well-known nuclear physicist and chairmanof PAEC from 1991–2001
  • Dr.Ansar Pervaiz, current chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission PAEC since 2001
Nobel Laureate
  • Dr.Abdus Salam- theoretical physicist and astrophysicist and Pakistan's only Nobel Laureate in physics.
  • Har Gobind Khorana - Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine
Scientists
  • Dr.Talat Waseem
  • Dr.Nyla Hassan
Actors
  • Dev Anand - Indian
  • Balraj Sahni - Indian
Poets
  • Dr.Sir Muhammad Iqbal - Pakistan's national poet
  • Faiz Ahmed Faiz
  • Nasir Kazmi
Authors/writers/novelists
  • Patras Bokhari - Urdu writer, First Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations (1951–54)and Former Under-Secretary General of United Nations,
  • Ashfaq Ahmed - Urdu writer playwright, broadcaster and intellectual
  • Sahir Ludhiyanvi - Urdu poet/Hindi lyricist and songwriter
  • Farkhanda Lodhi - female novelist
  • Bano Qudsia - female novelist
  • Qudrat Ullah Shahab - famous Urdu writer and civil servant
Journalism
  • Altaf Gauhar - writer, scholar, political journalist, 1923–2000
  • Imran Aslam - CEO Geo TV networks.
  • Ahmed Rashid - Famous Pakistani journalist and the author of the best seller Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Yale University Press (March 2000) ISBN 0-300-08340-8
  • Hamid Mir - journalist, political analyst and TV anchor.
  • Khaled Ahmed -, Consultive Editor of The Friday Times and contributor to Daily Times
  • Wakas Mir -, radio host
  • Atif Khalid Butt - Journalist
  • Tariq Ali - Journalist,Author,Political Activist,
Judiciary
  • Diwan Sir Abdul Hamid - barrister and public administrator
  • Ijaz Batalvi - lawyer, 1923–2004
  • Muhammad Munir - Former Chief Justice Supreme Court Of Pakistan & Federal Court, Member Boundary Commission on partition of India 1947.
  • Muhammad Rustam Kayani - Former Chief Justice of Lahore High Court
  • Nasim Hasan Shah - Former Chief Justice Supreme Court of Pakistan
  • Makhdoom Ali Khan - Barrister, Former Attorney General of Pakistan
  • Javid Iqbal - scholar, former Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court & Judge of Supreme Court and son of Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal
  • Nasir Aslam Zahid - Former Chief Justice Of Sind High Court
  • Khawaja Mohammed Sharif - Chief Justice Of Lahore High Court
  • Mian Muhammad Najum Uz Zaman - Former Judge of Lahore High Court
  • Riaz Kiyani - Federal Secretary of Law,Justice & Parliamentary Affairs & Former Judge of Lahore High Court.
  • S.Ahmed Sarwana- Former Judge of Sind High Court & ex-Chairman of Pakistan Intellectual Property Rights Association(1979–99).
  • Mohammed Asif Jan - Former Judge of Lahore High Court
  • Choudhry Mohammed Ghulam Sarwar - Former Judge Of Lahore High Court
  • Ch. Shaukat Ali Khan - Session Judge, Currently the Chairman Drug Court, Multan
Sportsmen
  • Majid Khan (cricketer) - Retired cricketer, specialist batsman and former captain of the Pakistan team.
  • Waseem Ahmed - Ex Olympian and former captain of Pakistan National Hockey Team with most caps in the history of Pakistan Hockey
  • Abdul Qadir - (cricketer), ex Chief selector Pakistan Cricket Board
  • Amir Sohail - former Pakistan Test captain
  • Ramiz Raja - former Pakistan Test captain
  • Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi -,US Open Tennis Finalist
Musicians
  • Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan - popular male singer
  • Hadiqa Kiyani - popular female singer
  • Ali Zafar-, famous Pop singer
  • Mustafa Zahid-, famous pop singer and vocalist of the band Roxen
  • Taha Sadaqat-, Manager of Canada based Internationally acclaimed Music Band JoSH
  • Jawad Ahmed - Popular Male Singer
  • Waris Baig - Popular Male Singer
Scholars
  • Allama Iqbal - Poet, Philosopher, politician, lawyer and architecht of the idea of Pakistan.
  • Dr. Israr Ahmad - Founder of Anjuman Khuddam-ul-Qur'an, Tanzeem-e-Islami and Tehreek-e-Khilafat. Famous for his Theory of Non-Violent Revolution.
Other Notable Alumni
  • Chetan Anand -(producer and director) - producer and director from India and elder brother of Dev and Vijay Anand
  • Dr.Safdar Mahmood - retired federal secretary, eminent historian, political analyst, scholar and author of several books on Pakistan history.
  • Dr. Khalid Ranjha - lawyer, constitutionalist and serving Senator for Pakistan, former provincial and federal minister for Law, Human Rights and Parliamentary affairs
  • Dr.Muhammed Arsalan Majeed -MS of Zhengzhou Medical Complex China
  • Maulana Tariq Jamil - famous Muslim scholar
  • Khushwant Singh - prominent Indian novelist and journalist
  • Sarvadaman Chowla - a prominentIndian-American mathematician
  • Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj - College principal and drama writer who wrote a famous stage version of Anarkali
  • Prakash Tandon - an influential Indian businessman
  • Rao Mohammad Hashim Khan -, Member of National Assembly, Chairman Public Accounts Committee
  • Chorri dildar ahmad,- former stage dancer
  • Prof.Dr.Munir-ul-Haq - Former MS of Mayo hospital and founder of ophthalmology department.
  • Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum - noted 20th century poet of Urdu, Punjabi and Persian
  • Prof Dr Suhail Ahmad Khan - critic, eminent teacher and poet
  • Prof Dr Saadat Saeed - Famous Poet and Writer
  • Mian Ata Muhammad Khan Maneka - former MNA and Minister for Education Punjab, Chairman District Council Pakpattan, MPA

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