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World Sindhi Congress was launched in 1988, by Sindhi intellectuals from around the world and the main purpose of World Sindhi Congress is to:
a) Highlight the developments affecting Sindh & Sindhis, inside as well outside the country.
b) Defend the historic national rights of Sindhis, including the right of self determination.
We believe in:
i) Peaceful coexistence for all.
ii) Natural historical relationship between land and people.
iii) Investing in people rather than in guns.
iv) Sindh shall be a nuclear free demilitarised
zone.
Its aims & objects include:
1. Support and safeguard the human rights as ensured in the UN charter.
2. Strive for the emancipation of masses from all kinds of exploitations.
3. Establish a society with easy availability of basic amenities of life, including free education and proper health care.
4. Make efforts to bring Sindh at par with other developed countries in the field of agriculture, commerce, science and technology.
5. Preserve and promote the cultural heritage of Sindh, such as folklore & music, traditional arts & handicrafts, historical manuscripts & archives.
6. Promote Sindhi language & history, and special efforts to improve the literacy of masses particularly in villages.
7. Efforts to enhance the political awareness
of masses by publications, seminars, lectures etc.
World Sindhi Congress also launched the 'SAVE SINDH FUND' with the purpose of helping the unfortunate victims of these human created disaster and its draft aims and objectives include:
a) To provide the medical services and other assistance in the areas affected by the natural disaster or situations created due to civil riots, commotions and disturbances, inside and outside Sindh.
b) To further the education and learning of Sindhi language and to establish & support Sindhi educational institutions, and to award scholarships and grant loans for educational purpose to needy and deserving Sindhis.
c) To provide books and writing material to Sindhi children in the rural areas of Sindh, to other poor Sindhi children.
d) To procure to be written, print, publish, issue and circulate, such papers, books, periodicals, pamphlets or other documents or films or record tapes, as shall further these objects and promote Sindhi language and history.
e) T o provide clean drinking water in the rural areas of Sindh, and take measures to improve the hygiene and sanitation.
f) T o establish hospitals, dispensaries and residential homes, to relieve sickness & infirmity in the rural as well urban areas of Sindh.
g) To provide relief from poverty, distress and hardship amongst Sindhis in case of need.
Save Sindh Fund is in the process of being registered as charitable fund, and we appeal to you all to contribute generously towards this noble cause.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC POLICY:
We strongly believe that the situation in Sindh can not improve unless the immediate steps are taken to rectify the social injustice, reverse the economic deprivation and eradicate the rampant corruption. Hence, World Sindhi Congress proposes socio-economic reforms including:
1. Redistribution of Wealth, revised and improved taxation and banking system.
2. Re-allocation of the land to local tillers and cooperative farming, with technical assistance and agricultural loans.
3. Encouraging small business and local commercial enterprise through government assistance.
4. Promoting the cottage and traditional industry in the rural areas.
5. I mproving the communication network, including railways, roads, telecommunication, etc.
6. Improving the adult literacy to the internationally recognized standards.
7. Providing the social welfare assistance to the poor, through means testing, etc.
8. Establish a society where every citizen has a free access to education, healthcare, and easy availability of the essential amenities of life.
9. Control drug trafficking and smuggling of arms and ammunitions.
10. Establish control over national resources and the use the revenues for the the betterment of the people of Sindh.
EDUCATION:
World Sindhi Congress has repeatedly expressed concern over the deteriorating educational atmosphere in Sindh, and the role of the government in perpetuating the conditions through unnecessary political interference. Sindhi medium schools are being closed down and non-Sindhi teachers are being appointed to teach Sindhi language while Sindhi teachers remain unemployed.
Sindh University and other Sindhi institutions are deprived of essential funds for research and advancement of education.
Sindhi educational institutions have been turned into army camps and Sindhi students hunted as renegades and dacoits. We have repeatedly demanded that immediate steps should be taken to prevent the total destruction of educational system and unnecessary political interference stopped to improve educational atmosphere.
1. Compulsory free education upto matric, for all those under 16 years of age.
2. Re-launching the adult education programme, specially in the villages and deprived urban areas.
3. Increasing the number and pay of teachers, specially primary and secondary schools, and their selection strictly on the merit bases, through competitive examination.
4. Regular checks on the attendance and standards of education by inspectors and supervisors.
5. Introducing the modern advanced technological methods of teaching & examination, and ensuring the confidentiality of the procedure.
6. Encouraging the research work by providing the essential funds and peaceful educational atmosphere and other incentives.
7. Providing the scholarships to the deserving students, strictly on merit bases.
HEALTH:
1. Population control through family planning education.
2. Preventive medicine measures, improved sanitation, vaccination, Antenatal & Child Care facilities.
3. Improved facilities and increased efficiency with proper medicines, computerised record keeping, etc.
4. Better medical education and training, including computerised examination procedures.
5. Incentives for Doctors and other medical staff working in rural areas.
6. Well equipped and properly staffed paramedical teams and health visitors for rural areas.
LAW & ORDER:
1. Review remand and detention system, police lock ups, etc.
2. Monitor interrogation systems and close torture cells, e.g. CIA & FIA centre abolishing physical torture and similar means for obtaining confession .
3. End extrajudicial executions and arbitrary detentions.
4. Provide legal aid and other facilities.
5. Make police accountable through complaints authorities, public bureaus, etc.
6. M ake judiciary independent of executive intervention and political interference.
7. Introduce principles of natural justice and judiciary system.
AGRICULTURE:
1. Reclaiming land from absentee landlords and reallocation to local Sindhi tillers.
2. Reducing the maximum land holding limits.
3. Cooperative farming of small land holding farmers.
4. Improve the agriculture production by modern technology assistance, financial aid and education.
5. Encouraging the traditional methods of agriculture and improving by modern mechanisation and other facilities with government assistance.
6. Eliminating water logging and salinity through LBOD and other similar project.
7. E ncouraging cattle, fisheries and poultry farming through government assistance.
8. Subsidise the agriculture goods eg. fertilisers, machinery, etc., and provide regional markets for the agricultural produce.
9. E ncouraging agrarian based Industry e.g. sugar mills, rice mills, milk plants through government assistance.
10. Encouraging agricultural education and research facilities.
COMMUNICATION:
1. I mprove road and transport network through government and private investment.
2. Modernise telephone and telecommunication system.
3. Encouraging water transportation and shipping cargoes through Indus river.
4. Modernize postal system.
5. Encourage information super highways.
ENVIRONMENT:
1. Preservation and increasing forest and wild life.
2. Ban limiting and distribution of endangered species.
3. Control of air and water pollution through dispersion of industrial waste and decreasing their emission.
HUMAN RIGHTS:
1. Ratify ICCPR AND ICESCR and optional protocols..
2. Promote human rights education and encourage network of human rights NGOs.
3. Establish ministry of human rights and human rights centres around the country.
4. E nsure women's and children's rights, abolish the evil practices of child prostitution, child labour and bonded labour.
5. Guarantee minority rights as per UN charter and International law.