Contacts: Pakistan

NGO CONTACTS

All Pakistan Women's Association
67/B Garden Road, Karachi-3
E-mail: myousuf01@hotmail.com

Co-operation for Peace and Unity [CPAU]
The Co-operation for Peace and Unity (CPAU) is a network of Afghan individuals dedicated to the building of peace in Afghanistan. Founded in 1996, the CPAU aims to promote knowledge and awareness of peace, social justice, and human rights. The CPAU organizes conflict prevention training programs called 'Working with Conflict' and 'Do no Harm'. The CPAU stresses that its main intention is grassroots education aimed at building an inclusive civil society in Afghanistan.
2-Rehman Baba Rd, University Town, UPO Box 1084, Peshawar, Pakistan
Contact preson: Ahmad Fahim Hakim, Programme Coordinator/ Muhammad Suleman,
Management Coordinator
Ph#: +92 91 45316 or +92 91 40436
Fax#: +92 91 840471
E-mail: afahim@brain.net.pk or pkafahim@brain.net.pk or sulnad@yahoo.com

Ghum Gusar
Ghum Gusar, based in Islamabad is working to help poor and needy women throughout Pakistan. Providing free legal assistance, shelter, medical and financial support to women struggling for rights in the social, economic and political fields.
Head Office:
House #24, Grid Station Road, Bhara Koh Islamabad, Pakistan
Phone: 223 1829

Human Development and Peace Organization (HDAPO)
The organizations aims to empower and organize grass roots communities for their integrated development to promote rights based approach and sustain peace and interfaith harmony. HDAPO provide 1)reproductive health care centers 2)paralegal trainings and help 3) human rights seminas.
Issues: Human Rights, Women Development, Interfaith harmony (PEACE), Child’s Right (Youth development)
Mubrikabad Colony, Shorkot Rd, Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan.
Ph #: 0092 462 517060

International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of Violence in Pakistan (INRFVVP)
The INRFVVP aims to create a worldwide awareness of the violence being done to girls and women in Pakistan. The long-term goal of the INRFVVP is to examine the root-causes of violence toward girls and women by a systematic and scientific analysis of both theoretical and empirical data and to identify factors, which make such violence so widely prevalent. An immediate objective of the INRFVVP is to provide direct help - including humanitarian, medical, legal and educational assistance – to female victims of violence in Pakistan.
P.O. Box 17202, Louisville, Kentucky 40217, USA
Ph #: 502-637-4090 or 502-637-3717
Fax #: 502-637-4002
E-mail: inrfvvp@inrfvvp.org
Website: http://inrfvvp.org/

Prevention of harassment, violence, rape and incest
House 8, Street 32, F-7/1, Islamabad
Ph#:092 51 824327
Fax #: 092 51 820978
Email: bedari@bedari.sdnpk.undp.org

Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan (RAWA)
RAWA’s objective was to involve an increasing number of Afghan women in social and political activities aimed at acquiring women’s human rights and contributing to the struggle for the establishment of a government based on democratic and secular values in Afghanistan. Despite the suffocating political atmosphere, RAWA very soon became involved in widespread activities in different socio-political arenas including education, health and income generation as well as political agitation.
Issues: helping women and children inside Afghanistan and in refugee camps in Pakistan and to fight against fundamentalism in order to achieve democracy and women's rights
PO Box 374, Quetta
Ph #: 92 300 551638
Fax #: 92 81 441715
Email: rawa@rawa.org
Website: www.rawa.org

Shirkat Gah Women's Resource Center -Women Living Under Muslim Laws
PO Box 5192, Lahore, Pakistan
E-mail: sgah@lhr.comsats.net.pk

Simorgh Women's Resource Centre
Formed in response to the upsurge of religious fundamentalism and the promulgation of retrogressive and discriminatory legislation, Simorgh’s main focus is research on women by women in order to free both women and men from the dominance of ideas that support social and economic divisions on the basis of gender, class, religion, race and nationality. Simorgh works with students, teachers, media professionals and has strong links with other national and international women’s groups. In addition to doing a variety of publishing, Simorgh conducts seminars, conferences, income generation projects and gender awareness workshops. They have also made some important documentary films based on women’s lives and struggles in Pakistan.
PO Box 3328 Gulberg - II, Lahore, 54660
Ph #: 92 42 5757195
Fax #: 92 42 5757195
Email: simorgh@brain.net.pk

South Asia Partnership Pakistan(SAP-PK)
South Asia Partnership (SAP) is a network of participatory development-support organizations operating under the same name and for the same purposes in Canada and five South Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. SAP-PK aims to facilitate CBOs (Capacity Building Organizations) and groups working with the disadvantaged sections of society for their socio-economic uplift leading to empowerment and self-reliance and to foster relationships with development organizations in South Asia, Canada and other Northern countries for a better understanding of issues and initiatives concerning the empowerment of people in Pakistan.
SAP Pakistan, Haseeb Memorial Trust Building
2km Raiwind Road, P.O. Thokar Niaz Beg, Lahore, 53700
Ph#: +92 42 542 64 70,71,72
Fax#: +92 42 541 16 37
E-mail: sappk@suberwurz.com
Website: http://www.sappk.org/

Struggle for Change (SACH)
SACH is was set up on account of the human rights situation in Pakistan, the inflow of refugees from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Occupied Kashmir into Pakistan and among them many have been victims of torture. The specific services provided by SACH are: medical care, mental health support, social support, legal coverage, occupational therapy, educational services, micro-credit programs, and human rights training.
NK 34 B New Katharian, Rawalpindi
Ph # : 92 51 452 809
Fax # : 92 51 452 809
Email : mehdi@istaqbal.sdnpk.undp.org

Working Women Organisation (WWO)
Creating awareness about women's human rights and encouraging participation of women in familial decisions
E/ 36, St # 2, Iqbal Park, Walton Road, Lahore Cantt.
Ph #: 92 42 668 6382
Fax #: 92- 42- 668 6519.
E-mail: wwo@brain.net.pk

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) South Asia Regional Office
Umbrella Organisation: Countries include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
55 Lodi Estate 11003, New Delhi, India
Ph #: 91 11 469 8297
Fax #: 91 11 462 7612 (c/o UNDP)
E-mail: cjoshi@unifem.ernet.in
Website: www.unifem.undp.org

Madadgaar: Joint Venture of LHRLA & UNICEF
Help line, Protection & Referral Service for Women & Children
D1, Forst Floor, Court View Apartments, Opp. Sindh Assembly Building, Court Road, Karachi 74200
Ph #: 568 5824/ 521 9902
Fax #: 568 5938
E-mail: lhrla@fascom.com
Web-site: www.lhrla.sdnpk.org/madadgaar

Ministry of Women Development, Social Welfare and Special Education
SLIC Building No. 5 Blue Area F-6/4, Islamabad
Ph #: (92-51) 921-145
Fax #: (92-51) 920-3132 / 920-6462
E-mail: mowdswse@isd.comsats.net.pk
Web: www.mowd.gov.pk

Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
Pakistan House, 8 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10021 USA
Ph#: (212) 879-8600
Fax#: (212) 744-7348
E-mail: pakistan@un.int