ACACF SAFETY AND SECURITY POLICY

Organizational Overview:
Society for Human Rights and Prisoners Aid (ACACF), is a Non-Profitable, Non-Political and Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) registered with the Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies, Islamabad Capital Territory under Registration and Control Ordinance 1961 (XLVI of 1961). It got Registration No. VSWA/ICT/300 on 11th March 1999.
Society for Human Rights and Prisoners’ Aid (ACACF) is striving for a human rights friendly Pakistan since 1999 by working for the well being of vulnerable segments of the society through various means, be it advocacy, community services, capacity building, emergency response and etc. ACACF has had experience of working with various population groups (refugees, IDPs, women, juvenile delinquents, street children, prisoners and etc.) in different thematic areas including Protection, Child Protection, Emergency Response, Advocacy, Education, Infrastructure development, health, and other rights based approaches throughout the country.
All the initiatives carried out by ACACF focus on ensuring equal opportunities for the deprived segments of the society through improved access to justice. ACACF concentrates on building capacities, ensuring promotion of human rights and access to justice by developing linkages and narrowing the gap between the deprived sections of the society and government institutions like law enforcement agencies, police, judiciary, government machinery and the national and international humanitarian community that are responsible for providing justice and ensuring rights of the poor and needy segments of the society.

Vision:
ACACF envisions a human rights friendly Pakistan indiscriminative of cast, creed, color, sex, ethnicity and/or nationality.

Mission:
ACACF aspires to pursue its humanitarian vision by forging strategic partnerships with like-minded humanitarian community, both national and international and carry out community and policy advocacy, service delivery and capacity building initiatives to protect and empower the marginalized and deprived segments of the society in a bid to garner a socially just and enabling society.
Aims and Objectives:

  • To create awareness about human rights
  • To eradicate injustice through legal empowerment of general masses
  • To promote child protection and juvenile justice
  • To support formal and informal access to justice through networking with legal fraternity and provision of legal assistance
  • To promote Safe migration to reduce human trafficking
  • To promote positive social behavior by encouraging health, hygiene and WASH education
  • To promote the spirit of volunteerism through meaningful youth participation
  • To promote adherence and effective implementation of CEDAW
  • To develop human capital through formal and informal education, skill development and vocational training
  • To strengthen the emergency response through DRR and effective DRM

Geographical coverage:
ACACF advocates the rights of the deserving and distressed individuals and communities all across Pakistan. The ongoing interventions in the thematic areas of protection, child protection, livelihoods and education are being carried out in Islamabad capital territory, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Sindh and Azad Kashmir, which are managed through the field offices in the aforementioned locations. The head office of ACACF is based in Islamabad.
Population of concern:
ACACF is an ardent advocate of diversity and therefore, believes in mainstreaming age, gender and diversity (AGD) in all of its interventions. The areas of expertise held by ACACF are in the thematic areas of protection, child protection, women empowerment, livelihoods, education and emergency response. And ACACF indiscriminately responds to the needs of affected population.

Organizational response strategy:
ACACF recognizes the current Human Rights state in Pakistan and keeping in view the current rights based approaches prevalent within our country; ACACF has developed a three pronged strategy to deal with the adverse socio-economic and politico-legal situation in Pakistan. These are as follows:

  • Carrying out community and policy advocacy for the population of concern
  • Developing strategic partnerships with the likeminded stakeholders
  • Carrying out service delivery and capacity building initiatives

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