1. Community
Human Rights Watch: PHRAS will train Human
Rights Defenders. The aim of the training programme was
to create a grass-roots and local human rights network.
Apart from training on human rights issues, fact-finding and
report-writing, PHRAS human rights defenders are also given
training on election monitoring prior to every national
election.
2. Human
Rights Education: It has been
discovered that the reason for the many alarming cases of
abuse and violence in Schools, Homes and Communities is due to
the lack of knowledge about the basic human rights and the
need to respect ones rights. This Program is especially
designed to address these ills of society by promoting human
rights education at all levels.
3. Urgent
Appeals: To campaign against major
violations of human rights and also to put pressure on state
actors for swift remedy for victims PHRAS sends urgent appeals
across the globe through its network and website. PHRAS also
responds to urgent appeals sent by other organizations.
4. Promoting
Human Rights and Gender Equity: Gender
and women empowerment is a Program designed to address the
challenges that women face in their homes & communities
and protect their rights at all levels; also seeking to
empower them with life skills training opportunities and basic
management skills. The program also seeks to raise awareness
against all forms of Abuse against Women. Promoting human
rights and launching campaigns against gender discrimination
will be yet another area of intervention for the community as
a whole. Posters/leaflets etc will be published and
distributed and other appropriate publicity materials will be
used in addition to holding community-based seminars and
training sessions to sensitize all concerned on these issues.
Awareness campaign on violence against women will be a regular
agenda item in such campaigns, meetings/seminars, and training
sessions.
5. Child
Welfare Promotion: The Children
constitute a very fragile part of the nation’s population and
are the future generation of leaders that are expected to take
responsibility after the youths, but if they are not taken
care of by giving them the required grooming, care and support
to enable them grow in a healthy environment, they will not
perform as expected.
6. Human
Trafficking & Modern Slavery: This
program seeks to advocate for the eradication of modern day
slavery. Despite the fact that slavery was officially
abolished in the 19th century, Millions of children, women,
and men are affected. They are subjected to forced labor,
forced prostitution and debt bondage on daily basis.
7. Democracy
and Good Governance: This Program is
geared towards promoting Democracy, Good Governance and a
Corrupt-Free society and ensuring that Youths and Women are
active participants in governance at local, national and
international levels.
8. Youth
Empowerment Strategies: The goal of
this program is to foster a commitment to young people
that will promote pro-social friendships, strong interpersonal
skills, and reassert a sense of hope in the future. Only
through personal relationships can a sense of individual
responsibility be reestablished that will give youth the
commitment to follow through on path to adulthood with a sense
of pride and accomplishment. Through repeated
failures in the classroom and the development of destructive
habits, at-risk young people have lost faith in the
possibilities that await them if they are successful in
putting their lives together. We believe that young people
must be in a caring, inclusive learning environment that
promotes their best efforts and reinforces personal respect.
9. Natural
Resources & Environment Development : The
Climate change issue is being addressed in our country.The
skill and expertise knowledge was shared with the Volunteers
and Social Development team of different govt. and non-govt.
officials. Adolescents to create awareness on Climate change;
and distribute the plants and to plant the trees .The program
seeks to address issues relating to Climate Change in
Bangladesh. We strongly believe that whatever we do to tackle
climate change will serve as a legacy for our future
generation. Climate change and global poverty have attracted a
lot of attention in recent years as key global justice
challenges of our times. Both are serious challenges to the
future health and prosperity of our planet. They must be
combated simultaneously; we cannot take care of one without
addressing the other. An effective attack on poverty and the
ill-effects of climate change requires taking comprehensive
action that encompasses both issues. We cannot fight climate
change without considering the rising energy needs of poor
people and countries, nor can we effectively address global
poverty without accounting for the impacts of climate change
on agriculture, disease patterns, and violent weather events,
all of which particularly impact the poorest countries.
10. Developing
Community Disaster Response Initiatives:
Special emphasis will be given to developing a quick local
response mechanism to face natural disasters, through
community participation on cooperative principles. The
community members will be trained on different response
mechanisms and their coping capacity will be enhanced,
depending on the geographical location and vulnerability of
the union to various natural disasters (viz. cyclone, tornado,
flood, drought, river erosion etc). Formation of school-based
disaster management committee will be encouraged, in
appropriate cases.
11. Urban & Rural Community Development:
PHRAS has volunteer programme for local activists who
are interested in doing field and desk work as human rights
defenders in Bangladesh. The organization provides a safe
working environment for the volunteers.Training program was
imparted to the Volunteers of PHRAS on “Process
and Methods” of Urban and Rural Community Development program
to build the capacities of the Volunteers in the areas of
Health, Education, Secure Livelihood and Social Care.
12. Social
Integration and Advocacy : Through
regular discussion meetings on various issues of human rights
and their abuse, PHRAS brings together various groups of
people, victims of human rights abuse. The findings and
recommendations are discussed. In this way, and also through
its publication of reports in the media, PHRAS will carrie out
its advocacy activities.Social Integration programs among
advise indigenous Community themselves. The Advocacy awareness
program was initiated on their rights specially Family Law
& Land Law and the other rights of the community people.
The community and Women Self Help Group empowered on their
rights and entitlement.
13. Research & Process
Documentation : Research and
Process documentation on different social issue and the
violation of rights has documented .
14. Agriculture: Agriculture
is a significant part of Bangladesh. In our efforts to make
food security a reality in Bangladesh, PHRAS support them by
organizing events and joining awareness creating
activities with different national and International
organization for producing sufficient food for their
families, communities, cities and the country as a whole.
15. Health:
The local health awareness program is
created among the community. The water and sanitation program
is introduced as prevention of health system. The health is
wealth at the same time Ayurvedic medicinal plants are
encouraged to promote among the community members. Our fields
also have the research the different wild medicinal plants for
securing the health system.
16. Water
Sanitation and Hygiene: Water is
Life! It is undoubtedly true that water is a very important
aspect of man’s life and so also a very pertinent aspect of
Human Rights. As an organization seeking to ensure the
livelihood and sustainability of humanity, this Program is
mainly to advocate and promote Water Sanitation and
Hygiene.
17. Peace
and Security: This Program seeks to
promote tolerance, nonviolence and peace by encouraging and
supporting mutual understanding, solidarity, and cooperation
among all citizens in Bangladesh and beyond.
18. Science
& Technologies: This program
seeks to promoting the use of ICTs for Sustainable Peace and
Development. We believe that adequate access to ICT tools
especially by youths and women will contribute greatly in
enhancing the development of people and their communities.
PHRAS is a partner organization of TIG and running a community
group of NetSquared under techsoup global group for creating
opportunities for young people and women, especially those in
rural areas to have adequate access to ICTs for sustainable
development. Training was facilitated to the students in
different institutes and universities to promote and
institutionalize the different rural communities; where people
are living in third and fourth world; within the captive space
of their own community.
19. Building
effective web-based solutions to real social problems: Event
for software developers, designers and social innovators to
create new businesses and projects that use the web to achieve
a social goal which brings together social innovators from the
non-profit, media, commercial and public sector and talented
software developers and designers. teams will build effective
web-based solutions to real social problems. Participatory
Human Rights Advancement Society aims to jump start a “digital
activist” movement across the Country committed to using the
Information and communication technologies for positive social
change.
20. Publicity
& Campaign: Efforts will be made to
raise public awareness about our programme with a view to
improving the image of Human Rights. Both print and electronic
media would be used for this purpose.
21. Sports: Despite
the fact that all work and no play makes jack a dull boy, the
fair play FIFA rule is also a rule that can apply in Peace
building and Development. This initiative is directed towards
promoting peace and development through sports.