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Ain o Salish Kendro (ASK) is a legal aid and human rights resource centre.
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Introduction Ain o Salish Kendro (ASK) is a legal aid and human rights resource centre. It provides free legal aid to the poor- women, workers and child workers. It has a special consultative status with UNECOSOC. ASK is a membership organization, started by nine founding members (4 women and 5 men). ASK's legal activism has led to public campaigns and advocacy in defense of individual and group rights within a framework of democracy. Besides providing free legal aid, ASK seeks to create awareness of legal and human rights so as to empower citizens to negotiate their rights. It is committed to campaigning for reform of discriminatory and repressive laws to eliminate systemic social, legal and political discrimination. ASK's activities focus on the following areas: * Awareness about human and legal rights: raising awareness in these issues has been ASK's major agenda since its beginning. As part of its strategy to raise...
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