The everyday rights that make citizenship real — to information, to vote, to associate, to be heard. We research how those rights are protected, denied or eroded across Pakistan's four provinces and federal capital.
Each focus area is structured around four to six durable sub-themes — research questions that recur and need consistent, longitudinal evidence rather than one-off studies.
Implementation of provincial and federal RTI laws — request volumes, response rates, appellate outcomes and public-body compliance. Cross-province comparative work.
The integrity of the electoral roll, voter-registration gender gaps, polling-day access for women and minorities, and overseas-voter inclusion.
Freedom of assembly, association and expression. NGO regulation, journalist safety and digital-rights restrictions.
Religious-minority political representation, electoral participation, hate-crime documentation and the implementation of constitutional protections.
Each focus area is supported by one or more DemTech tools — for fieldwork, citizen engagement, monitoring or open-data publication.
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