Centre For Social Justice

Peter Jacob
Executive Director

Peter Jacob (Executive Director) is a human rights professional, researcher, freelance journalist and trainer. He has been contributing articles for The News International, Dailytimes, and The Friday Times. He has been associated with several national and international human rights organizations since 1988 in different capacities including Amnesty International Pakistan, Hotline Asia, Forum Asia and Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. He worked for Justice and Peace Commission, assistant and acting Executive Secretary (1988-1990), The Pastoral Institute, Multan as lecturer and executive staff (1990-1995) and National Commission for Justice and Peace as its Executive Director (1995-2013).

He researched and coauthored “Working Conditions of Agricultural Labour in Punjab” (2001) and “Life On the Margins” (2012), a study on situation of minority women in Punjab and Sindh Provinces. He published several fact-finding reports and books in Urdu including, Insani Haqooq Ke Irteqa and Insani Haqooq Ka Bainulaqwami Nizam (Sanjh Publications).He studied Political Science, Law and Rural Development in Pakistan and earned an LLM degree from University of Notre Dame (US) in International Human Rights Law (2014).

Email: csjpak@gmail.com Twitter: @PeterJacobCSJ

Suneel Malik
Manager Programs
Suneel Malik is human rights professional, with 17 years of experience in developing and implementing human rights advocacy programs with particular interest in religious freedom, social justice, inclusive & equitable education, and national & international human rights protection mechanism. Malik specializes in project management, building organizational capacity, writing project proposals & progress reports, and developing tools for monitoring & evaluation of the projects.

Malik is currently serving as the Manager Programs at Centre for Social Justice, and assisting in developing research and advocacy project proposals, and responsible for overall project management including; project planning, assessing progress, monitoring & reporting, and keeping track of project bottlenecks and lessons learnt. Previously, he worked with National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP), of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference as regional coordinator (2003-2010), and with the Peace and Human Development (PHD Foundation) as its Director (2010-2016). Malik authored several position papers and articles on human rights, and contributed in research study on gaps and challenges in effective implementation of job quota policy for religious minorities in Pakistan. He co-authored a working paper on “Ethics in Question” that assesses the viability of Ethics in lieu of Islamic education as a subject for students belonging to religious minorities in public educational institutions of Pakistan.

Malik earned a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Punjab-Lahore, and a master’s degree in Mathematics from the Government College University-Faisalabad. He also holds certificate in Gender & Women’s Studies from Allama Iqbal Open University-Islamabad. .

E-mail: program@csjpak.org Twitter: @maliksuneel

Kulsoom Monica
Project Coordinator
Kulsoom Sadiq is a development professional and social activist with over 15 years of experience in the development sector. She worked in different capacities with National and International organizations including Shirkat Gah as a Research Associate, AMAL as a Facilitator & trainer (2000-2001) in rural Sindh and Balochistan, Plan Pakistan as a Health Educator (2004-2006), Program Manager at RASTI (2006- 2008), Heinrich Boll Stiftung-Pakistan/Afghanistan (2008-2015) as a program officer. Her recent engagement was as a Grant Holder and capacity building officer at Aurat Foundation Gender Equity Program, funded by USAID (2015-2016). Her skills include community mobilization, organizational management, managing grants and projects, supervising project partner’s work, report writing, networking and advocacy. She also conducted seminars, conferences and delivered trainings on children’s health, HIV/AIDs, Gender and Human Rights. She holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Punjab University, Lahore, graduate of South Asian Woman Training on Gender Issues from SANGAT, Nepal and “Inter-religious Peace-building M&E, one week training workshop from Alliance for Peace-building-NY in Bangkok, Thailand. She is serving as Project Coordinator at Center for Social Justice since January 2017. She is responsible for project management including implementing, assessing progress, monitoring and reporting and keeping track of challenges and lesson learnt. During her tenure at CSJ, she worked on different projects ‘Strengthening Peace-building Infrastructure in Punjab and Sindh’, Advocacy for Minorities’ equal rights and Minorities Leadership Development Program. She assisted in data collection and compilation for research study “Building Peace from the Bottom” and contributed articles on implementation of job quota, weapon control in Pakistan and Prevention from Coronavirus.

E-mail: mldp@csjpak.org

Emmanuel Shafquat
Manager Operations

Emmanuel Shafquat is a finance and management professional with 9 years of working experience in nonprofits and commercial organizations. He started his professional career as Finance Manager in a nonprofit-PMS (Pak Mission Society). He then worked with Master Motorcycles Pvt. Ltd (a subsidiary of Master Moltyfoam Group) as Assistant Accounts Manager and associated with the FBM (Financial Business Magnate) a FOREX investment company in the capacity of a Financial Analyst before joining the Centre for Social Justice in October 2015. Emmanuel has an extensive experience in; budgeting, compliance, financial management, office and people management, project management, event planning and management, grant applications and monitoring. He has expertise in conflict resolution, skills development and team-building. Emmanuel is a freelance instructor for; business management, corporate reporting, financial management and performance management. In his leisure time, Emmanuel loves to crack MS Excel formulas and functions for data analysis. Emmanuel holds an MSC in Professional Accountancy from the University College London- University of London and earned an ACCA (a recognized body of Associate Chartered Certified Accountants- Glasgow, UK). Emmanuel was selected as an Inductee of ACCA Pakistan’s Young Leader’s Program in 2016-2017.

E-mail: operations@csjpak.org

R Umaima Ahmed
Project Coordinator

Umaima Ahmed has a Masters in Diplomacy and Strategic Studies from The University of Punjab and a Bachelors in Journalism from Garrison Academy for Girls. After completing her education she worked for over ten years’ in print media and online media. She has written for in The Nation, The Daily Times, The News on Sunday and Global Voices. She has a special interest in Digital Rights and Rights of Minorities and Transgender . Currently at CSJ, she is working on inclusive education for minorities, advocacy and research.

E-mail: census@csjpak.org

Yousaf Benjamin
Coordinator Outreach

Yousaf Benjamin is a human rights defender and professional with an experience of two decades in human rights education, minorities’ rights, peacebuilding and investigating religious freedom issues. Collecting data on the violations of human rights, drafting reports, managing the projects and inputs in training sessions or conferences are his main areas of interest. He began his professional career in human rights in the year 2000 in Peshawar, and moved to Lahore in 2004 to join the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP), of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference as a project Coordinator. He led different projects of NCJP till 2013 and later headed an international organization in Pakistan from 2013 till 2022. Benjamin has contributed in about a dozen of publications based on human rights/minorities issues. He also worked as a correspondent for Union of Catholic Asian News, Asia News, International Christian Concern and local journals and newspapers. Currently he is engaged with CSJ in Minorities Leadership and Development Project as Coordinator Outreach.

E-mail: yousafbenjimin@gmail.com

Faaria is an academic and human rights professional with a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. She holds a Bachelors in Political Science and Management from the Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan where she also teaches various courses to undergraduate students on Politics and International Relations at the Department of Social Sciences. Her research focus includes human rights, minorities in South Asia, religion and state relationship, peace building and conflict resolution. Currently at CSJ she is working on projects including Manifesto’s of the Election, National Curriculum review and Climate Action under the Minorities Leadership Development Program.

Nasir William is a social & political activist who has been working at the Center for Social Justice for the last three years. He strongly advocates for human rights & the inclusion of minorities in mainstream politics. Nasir’s areas of interest are inclusive & equitable education, Social Justice, peacebuilding, and political reforms, especially in the light of Minorities’ Rights & Minority Leadership Development. He is a member of the Heavenly Culture, World peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) He has participated in World Youth Day as a delegate from Pakistan in Denver Colorado USA.1993. Nasir has also worked as a Senior Advisor with Pakistan Minorities Unity Council from 2014-2019. He contested General Election in 2013 on the General seat. He was also a volunteer with National Commission for Justice & Peace (NCJP) in Hyderabad Diocese from 1995 to 2001 and worked as a member of the Catholic Youth Council Pakistan and the International Movement of Christian Students (IMCS/YCS) respectively. He also holds 15 years of work experience in the pharmaceutical industry as a Regional Manager in Sindh. Nasir earned a Master’s degree in Business & Administration from the University of Sindh Jamshoro, and in Economics from Government College Nawabshah Sindh, respectively.