Organization for Human Relief (OHR)

Organization for Human Relief (OHR) is a women-led and women rights, non-profit, independent organization locally emerged as an active group and registered in 2013 as an organization for serving the local women and communities through working in women rights, human rights, women empowerment, access to health, access to education, gender equality and community development. The inspiration behind the establishment of the organization is to avail a multi sector opportunities for local communities with focus on women through improvement, planning, management and coordination and play a vital role in advocacy for problems solving of vulnerable people, ensuring citizens’ human rights and women rights as well as capacity building of local organizations, women rights activists and other community based potentials as per the participatory and indigenous approaches.

OHR is dedicated to social and economic improvement of communities and women under the attainment of human protection sustainable development goals and goals of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the development which is economically viable, legally accepted, gender responsible and socially equitable. OHR fosters potential programs in ensuring human rights, women rights, gender equality, women’s participation and awareness of their consequences on communities’ wellbeing through research, advocacy, mobilization, partnership, networking, capacity building, provision of direct legal & psycho-social counselling and mass awareness. OHR is adhering with Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Islamic Declaration of Human Rights and other national laws and policies to equip communities with its significance and their role to adopt for wellbeing of the people with focus on women. 

The vision of the organization is “to promote and protect the people and well-beings of communities with focus on women, through principles of sustainable development – the development that is economically sound, gender responsible and socially equitable”.

And the mission of the organization is “to mobilize support for durable partnerships through actions to serve and respond the communities’ basic needs and priority issues with participation of women, gender, disabilities, youth, valued stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries”.