About us:
Media Initiatives is an organization committed to work for social change and have played a vital role to amplify the voices of marginalized communities , shedding light on the challenges being faced by institutional obstacles and process that perpetuate poverty and inequality and raising voices for human rights, gender, social justice and for the rule of law to promote peace and fostering commitment
towards achieving SDG’s
“Our mission is to be a catalyst for positive change by raising awareness and advocating for poverty eradication, climate change mitigation, promotion of education, women’s rights, human rights, peace and harmony, sustainable growth, and tangible development. We strive to create a platform for meaningful dialogue and engagement to drive impactful change, and we are committed to using the power of media to inspire, educate and empower individuals and communities to build a better world & Pakistan as a modern welfare state.”
What We Do
- We launch awareness campaigns
- Do advocacy and raise voices for Human rights
- Arrange interactive dialogues
- Conduct trainings for Journalists/ Voters/polling agents
- Capacity Building for journalists/ teachers
- Hold Research
- Conduct Surveys
- Produce Short film/documentary and screen in fests
- Seminars
- Symposiums
- Conferences
- workshops
- lectures
- documentaries
- short films
- blogging
- podcast
- interviews
Objectives
The objects for which the association is established are as follows:
- 1. To launch awareness media campaigns to engage, educate and empower people from all walks of life about issues relating human rights, women rights, consumer rights, minority rights, freedom of expression, justice for all, rule of law, interfaith harmony, capacity building, marginalized segments of society, democracy, gender discrimination, education, environment, culture, health issues, clean drinking water, human & drug trafficking, addiction, child labour, and bonded labour etc.,
- 2. To focus on, to train young journalists to cover critical human right violations, rule of law, fair and free election issues, reporting issues in danger zones, tourism issues facing the country through practical training, support for innovative Web, TV and radio programming.
- 3. To produce programs and media campaigns which will help to general public about peace and conflict resolution/ management, disaster management and highlight the issues relating to human migration and provide guidelines how it can be resolute.
- 4. To arrange inspiring events, discussion, debates sessions, workshops, seminar, special training programs and international thematic documentary film festival arrangement in different cities of the country.
Our Team
Meet Our Team
Waqar Ahmed Wains
President
Dr. Haleema Afridi
Senior Vice President
Mohsin Hashmi
Communication Director
Dr Muhammad Attiq
Vice president
Nouman Shams Adv
Director Legal
Muaaz
Health project manager
Ch Mohammad Imran
Secretary
Rizwan Mehmood
Creative Head