Qaaf Se Qanoon

Qaaf Se Qanoon Qaaf Se Qanoon is a not-for-profit clinical initiative.

Qaaf Se Qanoon is a not for profit legal aid and education initiative by lawyers and law students to provide access to justice, quality legal advice and representation. The clinic's goals largely fall at two ends of the legal spectrum – legal literacy and legal aid – but also cover all aspects in between, including public interest research and drafting, legal advice and community empowerment. Qaaf

Se Qanoon does not "specialise" in any particular area of law but instead aims to assist anyone in need of legal assistance, particularly marginalized groups in society including women, children, informal labor, minorities and those without access to resources. This legal clinic is fueled by its belief in the power of the legal community as a whole to change the current climate of despair in Pakistan. By working at grassroots levels, it hopes to cultivate an understanding of the problems faced by various groups in society among law students and lawyers alike. In this manner the clinic is optimistic that it can lead by example, showing the legal community how it can help to resolve these problems in the way that they know best. With your support, this clinic can be an avenue to help people who feel they have no one to turn to while also inculcating in upcoming legal minds, a high moral and ethical code, a sense of purpose and a passion to live up to the inherent dignity of the profession, thereby changing the face of the legal practice in this city.

ق سے قانون جبران ناصر کے اریسٹ اور اغوا ہونے کی سخت مذمت کرتے ہیں اور قانون کی بالادستی اور جانکاری پر زور دیتے ہیں ۔ شہ...
02/06/2023

ق سے قانون جبران ناصر کے اریسٹ اور اغوا ہونے کی سخت مذمت کرتے ہیں اور قانون کی بالادستی اور جانکاری پر زور دیتے ہیں ۔ شہری ہونے کی حیثیت آپ کو یہ جاننا ہو گا کہ قانون اور اس کی جڈیشل تشریع سب انگریزی میں ہے اور یہ ایک سچی وجہ ہے جو ہمارا ملک قانون کی ارتقاء میں پیچھے ہے محروم رہا ہے ۔ اگر دوسرے ایکس کلونیل ممالک کی طرح ہم ہر بچے کو انگریزی اور آئین سکھاتے تو آج یہ حال نہیں ہوتا یا ہم اپنی زبانوں میں قانون کی جدید تشریع کرتے چاہے وہ سندھی ہو بلوچی، پشتو سرائیکی یا پنجابی ۔ لیکن افسوس کہ ہمیں یہ تک نہیں پتہ کہ ہمارے قوانین اور ریاستی عمل کس حد تک آئن کے خلاف جا رہیں ہیں اور لوگوں کو ڈرا دیا ہے سہما دیا ہے ۔ ایک وکیل ہیں یہ آئین کے مطابق کام کرتیں ہیں ان کو فوری طور پر رہا کیا جائے اور جبری گمشدگیوں کو بند کیا جائے ۔

02/01/2021

Happy New Year, Qaaf Se Qanooners - stay tuned for more “know your rights” in 2021!

06/11/2020

I had the privilege of presenting a paper for Roshni Helpline, an NGO in Karachi, on the ZARRA 2019 Bill before Senate sub-committee in Feb 2020. It's unfortunate that this law still need to pass the rigor of implementation. Here I offer its main points and how it seeks to trace and recover missing and abducted children under age 18 and install systems for nation-wide coordinated investigative efforts.

You will notice, the law does not treat all children under 18 in the same manner. In places, children under 14 are given special protections and in other places children under 16 and 18. In one section, the law treats boys and girls of the same age differently. Such discrepancies should be resolved (in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Child, 1990) unless they are linked to sociological research - for example some 16 and 17 year old children are capable of limited hours in a safe employment space.

Is sexual grooming an offence in Pakistan? My reading of the 2016 law (section 377) it certainly seems so. Simply enticing or coercing a child under 18 is enough. Apply this to a situation. If a 35 year old man entices a child of age 15 toward sexual activity, but does not engage in it and/or marry her until she is 18, courts should interpret this as child sexual abuse and not a legal marriage with special care where the child being induced is from a weaker socio-economic background.





19/09/2020

Watch this space to learn about the law re sexual violence, harassment & abuse
Zainab Alert next

25/08/2020

Learn about how the law protects women and girls from sexual harassment at the workplace or in college. Sexual harassment at the workplace is a form of gender based discrimination.

This video is a broad overview of the statute that covers harassment at the workplace.

The intention is to show how non-lawyers, feminists, and activists can play a role in the evolution of sexual harassment law and litigation in Pakistan. There is a free public prosecutor who will present your case for you if you proceed to the Ombudsperson office.





22/07/2020

The first in a series of educational videos to promote a better understanding of the law. Our purpose is to explain how the law deals with a spectrum of sexual violence ranging from harassment to assault and r**e, victims' rights and related topics of retaliatory defamation by abusers when you name and shame, due process, employment, and other constitutional rights and matters of justice.

12/06/2020

Child labor may be about individual responsibility and legal enforceability, but it is ultimately based in neoliberal economics that requires subsidies, welfare, educational infrastructure be taken away from the poor as their livelihoods are slowly destroyed.

Learn about child labor laws in Pakistan.




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02/06/2020

In 2019, Sindh passed the Prison Act - a much needed upgrade since 1894. It promises better facilities, enhanced visitation rights, education and medical care for inmates. We await its implementation.

02/06/2020

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Thank you for following Qaaf Se Qanoon. Please do check out this event organised by the the Women’s Lawyers Association....
24/02/2019

Thank you for following Qaaf Se Qanoon. Please do check out this event organised by the the Women’s Lawyers Association. Important conversations we must have in order to ensure that women’s participation in litigation, court work and the legal profession in general is not thwarted by discrimination, harassment, or negativity.

12/01/2019

International law prohibits certain gross violation of rights
Learn About Jus Cogens and the Death Penalty
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August, 2020

Qaaf Se Qanoon will continue to provide legal advice and referrals as possible, but due to limited resources, we will focus on making law and legal education accessible to all. We will be specially committed to feminist ways of seeing, interpreting, and re-imagining the law and legal systems - because gender justice is the future and is deeply linked to economic and social justice.

November, 2018

Qaaf Se Qanoon is a not-for-profit clinical initiative formed to combat the dearth of legal assistance, pro bono work and related resources in Sindh, with its focus being primarily in Karachi. The clinic's goals largely fall at two ends of the legal spectrum – legal literacy and legal aid – but also cover all aspects in between, including public interest research and drafting, legal advice and community empowerment. Qaaf Se Qanoon does not "specialise" in any particular area of law but instead aims to assist anyone in need of legal assistance, particularly marginalised groups in society including women, children, informal labour, minorities and those without access to resources. This legal clinic is fueled by its belief in the power of the legal community as a whole to change the current climate of despair in Pakistan. By working at grassroots levels, it hopes to cultivate an understanding of the problems faced by various groups in society among law students and lawyers alike. In this manner the clinic is optimistic that it can lead by example, showing the legal community how it can help to resolve these problems in the way that they know best. With your support, this clinic can be an avenue to help people who feel they have no one to turn to while also inculcating in upcoming legal minds, a high moral and ethical code, a sense of purpose and a passion to live up to the inherent dignity of the profession, thereby changing the face of the legal practice in this city.