Rights education and research project run by Voice Against Torture, an interdisciplinary forum which aims to work against all forms of torture in Pakistan. Research areas provisionally identified for 2004 are:
- torture of school children
- torture in refugee camps
- trauma of war
- socioeconomic vulnerability and prostitution
- trauma of displacement
- racial profiling
- attitudes of religious leaders towards human rights
- relationships between attitudes of religious leaders towards basic human rights and students’ attitude formation
- causes of truancy in runaway children
- emotional stability among working and non-working children
- exclusion of women from decisions affecting their lives on their psychological health
- child domestic workers
- awareness and perception of risk of sexual abuse among parents of child domestic workers
- prevalence of sexual harassment among female domestic workers
- rights of women in the work place: knowledge, attitudes, practices
Website includes full texts of RAHAT Medical Journal, which aims to instruct medical and allied practitioners about torture, its consequences, and treatment; and the Voices Against Torture quarterly newsletter.