A Study on Awareness on Citizenship and Human Rights among Youth in Bahawalpur City M.A Social Work epartment o!

Social Work

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Super)isor* Mr. A!ta+ Ahmad

Lecture, Department of Social Work

Su+mitted By*
1) Salman Shahid (Group Leader) 2) Hafiz Farhan Saleem 3) ohammad !"mail

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Bismillah&ir&Rahman&ir&Raheem ",uran - Surah #. Ayat'//(

01rue piety does not consist in turning your !aced towards the 2ast or the West 3 +ut true piety is to +elie)e in A44AH and the last ay

and the Angels and the Book and the 5rophet 6 and to spend your su+stance out o! lo)e !or Him upon your near o! kin. the orphans. the needy. the way!arers. the +eggars and !or the !reeing o! human +eing !rom +ondage6 and to +e constant in prayer and render the puri!ying dues. And "truly pious are( they who keep their promises whene)er they promise. are patient in mis!ortune and hardship and in times o! peril6 it is they who ha)e pro)ed themsel)es true. and it is they. they who are conscious o! A44AH.7

Appro)al Certi!icate
.hi" re"earch /ork entitled 0A Study on Awareness on Citizenship and Human Rights among Youth in Bahawalpur City7 "u'mitted '0 a %roup of "i1 mem'er" in partial fulfillment" of re2uirement" for the de%ree of ma"ter in "ocial /ork i" here'0 appro3ed for "u'mi""ion to .he !"lamia 4ni3er"it0 of -aha/alpur5

8nternal 29aminer::::::::::::::: 29ternal 29aminer::::::::::::::: Chairman :::::::::::::::

;roup Mem+ers*
1) Salman Shahid (Group Leader) 2) Hafiz Farhan Saleem 3) ohammad !"mail

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edication
0<or all the youth who can +ring re)olution in society7

Acknowledgements
It is all mighty Allah Who has created every thing in the vast cosmos. Who blessed us with potential and ability to compile and complete this task in confined time period and all respect to Hazrat Muhammad ( AW! who opened all the portals of wisdom and philosophy" we were not able to understand without. We would like to pay our gratitude to our honorable supervisor Mr. Aftab Ahmad who guided us on every step and made us brave to confront the torments and also gave us inspiring guidance and constructive criticism. #rom the formative stages of this thesis" to the final draft" we owe an immense debt of gratitude to him" he have an unlimited number of virtues" the most withstanding being his kindness" simplicity" love towards others" and always ready to help. His sage advice" insightful criticisms" and patient encouragement aided the writing of this thesis in innumerable ways. We owe to immense debt of gratitude to the chairman of ocial

Work $epartment" $r H.%.Ahmad &azi" who is always a source of passion" inspiration to us. Without his guidance" trust and support" I would not have been able to contribute in knowledge. We also e'press our thanks to all teachers Mr.(affar Wattoo" Mr. Mansoor Ali vision. pecial thanks go to dearest parents who provided us a lot in terms of prayers and good wishes. Who offered us unconditional love and hah" Madam Aisha houkat and Asiya Amwer" who introduced us the new horizon of knowledge and conferred us broader

support throughout the course of this thesis and taught us that even the largest task can be accomplished if it is done one step at a time. )hanks also goes to all group members who co operated each other and assumed the fullest responsibility in the completion of research study. #inally" we wish to thanks all the youth in *ahawalpur for their kind cooperation and patience in giving information and e'tending all assistance during this study. Hopefully" this study can inspire and give meaningful contribution especially in prescribing appropriate in daily practices.

Authors,

A+stract
Pakistan is a developing country where human rights work is limited and the existing human rights network is not so developed. There is a dire need of raising human rights issues in the country at grass roots level, but the capacity of community based organizations and support NG s to promote human rights empowerment is weak, mainly due to lack of human rights awareness and basic organizational skill. The need is to initiate activities with the emphasis on minorities! rights, women!s rights, culture of peace and tolerance, combating terrorism and other such issues by working together with the international organizations and the government of Pakistan in a coordinated manner. The present study is intended to investigate the level of awareness about human rights and responsibility of citizenship. The main objective of study was as under: To draw the personal profile of the youth in "ahawalpur To explore the social status of youth To study the #ivic Participation of citizen To determine the volunteering participation of citizen To know about the social net working as a citizen To study the interest of youth in current affairs To explore the youth influencing decisions in their community

To know about the human rights and its awareness in the youth

"ahawalpur #ity was taken as geographical universe. $%& respondents both male and female were taken as a sample of study by using 'uota sampling techni'ue( 'uestionnaire was selected as a tool of data collection. )e collected the data through 'uota sampling method. *fter the collection of data it was processed both systematically and statistically.

1he ma=or !inding o! the study was as !ollows* The average age of respondents under study was +, years. -a.ority of the respondents have master degree ./%0 respondents were registered as a voter and 1%0 respondents were affiliated with political party. 2ence only $10 respondents can participate in campaign activities for election. 3n the response of informal activities /&0 respondents can take participation in informal activities of community. /40 respondents can think that they were active in community public life. 5egarding current affairs 160 respondents read news pepar.1&0 respondents can agree that media is playing role in favor of society other ,& 0 respondents were disagree. 7%0 respondents can feel friendly behavior with community and only ,60 respondents have trust upon executive officers. 5egarding social net working 1/0 respondents have friends belong to different caste.1&0 respondents feel safe walking alone in neighborhood after dark. 5egarding influencing community decisions ,60 respondents were satisfied with the current condition of community. 740 respondents agreed that they influence decisions affecting their local area. *bout violence in protest +/0 respondent!s advice it is always right. 5egarding rights 1,0 respondents can understand the term rights.170 respondents can speak about their rights. nly ,%0 respondents can proceed a case in court and $%0 respondents can placed their demands to elected representative once a month

while other %+0 respondents placed their demands after respectively three, six or after one year.

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Sr. @ ' 1itle 6hapter +o 1 8ntroduction # 6hapter +o 2 Re)iew o! Rele)ant literature A 6hapter +o 3 Research Methodology B 6hapter +o # ata Analysis C 6hapter +o ) Conclusions D Recommendations E / Bi+liography Appendi9
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