AJK Women for Peace Organization 2.97

The objectives of the organization are:


1. To study specific humanitarian issues arising from conflict due to the undecided settlement of the State of Jammu and Kashmir at the time of partition of India and Pakistan, that have been inadequately dealt with to date, or call for solutions in keeping with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people;

2. To identify opportunities for more effective action by Pakistan, India and the international community and to make practical, action-oriented proposals that promote the well-being of people of the State, particularly the women folk and children;

3. To enhance public awareness of the conditions that create and perpetuate human suffering as a consequence to the protracted conflict in the State;

4. To carry out action-oriented research on issues of concern to the women folk and children of the State in the context of their legal rights as citizens of the State and in line with international humanitarian norms;

5. To undertake analysis of situations leading, actually or potentially, to large-scale human sufferings for the purpose of prevention or containment of man-made disasters;

6. To carry out evaluations of gender specific humanitarian programmes of national and international bodies;

7. To promote training and local capacity-building relating to humanitarian issues, including emergency preparedness and response, within and outside government structures;

8. To promote strengthening of social policy and social protection particularly for women and children;

9. To work as an implementing agency for humanitarian research and training projects for International and Multinational Organizations;

10. To address issues related to social policy, governance, poverty, peace and justice;

11. To address wide range of humanitarian problems through supporting and implementing activities like action oriented humanitarian research, capacity building, policy dialogue and advocacy;

12. To promote female education by conducting workshops and training programs for corporate, development and public sectors.

13. To promote women rights trainings for seeking relief from the judiciary.

14. Supporting national women rights and legal awareness campaigns.

15. To promote developing of selection and recruitment process criteria for women and providing Human rights training to law enforcement officers, prison administrators and the judiciary.

16. To promote review and revision of relevant statutory provisions of the penal code and the criminal procedure code to ensure due process and that women’s rights and the rights of all people — particularly disadvantaged groups — are protected and international human rights standards upheld.

17. To provide legal aid to ensure women rights protection and the displaced persons due to conflict in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

18. To facilitate training of women on pro-poor and pro-human rights legislation.

19. To support efforts of women empowerment.

20. To conduct interactive sessions and group discussions for deliberation on women’s issues.

21. To apply creative solutions and enduring principles to enhance female socio-economic productivity.

22. Establishing and running a research and documentation centre on women’s issues.

23. Joining forces and networking with existing organizations across both sides of the LoC in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, promoting the above mentioned objectives.

24. To undertake projects to address inequities of income and opportunity and to ensure gender equality, respect for women’s rights and environmental sustainability for achieving enduring impact on the lives and potential of poor women.

25. To undertake projects to engage with parliamentarians, citizens and institutions for making greater use of their human and material resources and work with them for implementing and monitoring policies and plans.

26. To engage with institutions and Civil Society Organizations (CSO) working for peace and stability in the region- particularly at the grass root levels, to promote CSO development effectiveness and seek to improve coordination of CSO efforts with government programmes, enhance CSO accountability and improve information on CSO in order to ensure greater transparency and accountability.

27. To undertake projects to strengthen application of national and international women rights accountability mechanisms.

28. To provide assistance to donors, institutions and NGOs in pursuance of the spirit of the Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women of 1995 and on principles of the Paris Declaration of 2005 and the Accra Declaration of 2008.