Ayaz Chandio

Ayaz is an Advovacy and Lobbying Officer at the Indus Institute for Research and Education, an NGO whose mission it is to facilitate civil society efforts through the networking of partner organisations to enhance their capacity to produce qualitative and tangible human development outputs. In his role, Ayaz develops social lobbying programs for social and human rights issues, especially for women, children, minorities and Indigenous populations and marginalised community’s rights. He has organised workshops, seminars, and trainings and conducted meetings with political leaders to lobby for the people of Sindh. In the past, Ayaz has lobbied on various issues such as water crises, climate change, women’s rights, and human rights. Ayaz plans to gain more skills and knowledge regarding human rights advocacy in order to transfer those skills to people in Pakistan, especially to organisations without networks, and to promote the human rights of the Indigenous Sindh.