Legal Membership
Membership is reviewed, discretionary, and subject to continued compliance.
Membership Governance
Membership Terms & Conditions
Professional, legally careful membership rules for applicants, members, volunteers, office bearers, and anyone seeking association with International Human Rights Movement.
Registered Trademark, Trademark No. 614993
Governed by Laws of Pakistan
No Unauthorized Representation
No Automatic Authority
Membership alone does not permit representation, fundraising, or use of official identity.
Trademark Protected
Registered Trademark, Trademark No. 614993, must not be misused.
Lawful Conduct
Members must act peacefully, ethically, non-discriminatorily, and within applicable law.
Direct Answer
What these membership terms mean
These terms govern applications, acceptance, conduct, authorization limits, privacy, trademark use, disciplinary action, and consequences of non-compliance for members and applicants of International Human Rights Movement.
Membership is conditional
Submitting an application does not guarantee approval. Approval, rejection, suspension, cancellation, and verification remain within the organization’s discretion, subject to applicable law and internal rules.
Authority must be written
No applicant or member may represent the organization, collect funds, issue statements, use official titles, or use the organization’s identity unless written authorization is issued by the competent authority.
1. Introduction and Acceptance
These Membership Terms & Conditions apply to every applicant, member, volunteer, coordinator, office bearer, representative candidate, and person seeking association with International Human Rights Movement.
By submitting a membership application, using the membership form, accepting any membership confirmation, participating in organizational activities, or continuing association with the organization, the person agrees to comply with these terms, the applicable code of conduct, official directions, and all applicable laws.
Important legal limitation
Membership does not create employment, agency, partnership, legal representation, advocacy appointment, office, fundraising authority, media authority, or power to bind the organization.
2. Definitions
For clarity, the following expressions are used throughout these terms:
OrganizationInternational Human Rights Movement, also referred to as IHRM.
ApplicantA person who submits or intends to submit a membership application.
MemberA person whose membership has been approved by the competent authority.
Competent AuthorityThe authorized office or office bearer empowered to approve, reject, suspend, cancel, or issue written authorization.
Official IdentityThe name, logo, trademark, card, certificate, title, letterhead, seal, email, website, social page, document, and digital asset of the organization.
Written AuthorizationA specific written approval issued by the competent authority for a stated purpose, period, and scope.
3. Eligibility
An applicant should support human dignity, equality, lawful awareness, public welfare, peaceful advocacy, non-discrimination, and responsible community service.
- Applicants should provide true, complete, and current information.
- Applicants should be able to comply with applicable law, organizational discipline, and ethical conduct.
- Applicants must not apply for membership for unlawful, political misuse, violent, discriminatory, fraudulent, personal-profit, fundraising, impersonation, or reputationally harmful purposes.
- Applicants below the age of majority may be considered only where the organization permits it and lawful parental or guardian consent is obtained, and such applicants may not hold authority or representation roles unless lawfully permitted and expressly approved.
4. Application Review, Verification, Acceptance, and Rejection
Submission of a membership application does not create any automatic right to membership. The organization may review, verify, request additional information, interview, approve, reject, defer, suspend, or cancel an application at its discretion, subject to applicable law and organizational rules.
The organization may reject or cancel an application where information appears incomplete, false, misleading, harmful, inconsistent with organizational values, or otherwise unsuitable for membership.
Electronic submission: Online forms, email submissions, scanned documents, electronic confirmations, and digital records may be used for administrative processing, communication, verification, and record keeping, subject to applicable law.
5. Membership Status, Rights, and Limitations
Approved membership allows participation in lawful awareness, public welfare, community service, training, coordination, and organizational communication where appropriate. It does not guarantee any benefit, office, appointment, certificate, card, designation, reimbursement, leadership position, legal aid, employment, or public authority.
Members mayParticipate in approved activities, receive official communication, support peaceful public welfare initiatives, and apply for approved roles where eligible.
Members may notRepresent the organization, collect funds, issue statements, use titles, issue documents, or use official identity without written authorization.
6. Member Duties and Code of Conduct
Every member must act with dignity, discipline, honesty, respect, lawful conduct, and responsibility. Members must uphold the organization’s non-political, non-violent, non-discriminatory, public welfare, and human rights-focused commitments.
- Respect the dignity, privacy, safety, religion, ethnicity, gender, language, disability, and lawful rights of all persons.
- Act peacefully and avoid incitement, harassment, hate speech, threats, intimidation, or abuse.
- Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information, complaints, member data, documents, and internal communications.
- Follow official directions, communication protocols, and event discipline.
- Avoid conflicts of interest and disclose any matter that may affect trust, neutrality, or organizational reputation.
- Use respectful language in public, online, media, event, complaint, and community settings.
7. Prohibited Conduct
The following conduct is prohibited and may result in internal action, suspension, termination, and legal action where facts and law permit:
- False representation, impersonation, unauthorized use of office title, or claiming authority without written approval.
- Unauthorized fundraising, collection of donations, sponsorships, grants, fees, cards, certificates, or payments.
- Misuse of the organization’s name, logo, trademark, identity, card, certificate, letterhead, seal, social media page, website, email, WhatsApp group, or digital asset.
- Issuing public statements, press releases, legal notices, complaint letters, certificates, appointment letters, membership cards, or identity documents without written authorization.
- Publishing false, misleading, defamatory, hateful, discriminatory, political, violent, or reputationally harmful material.
- Misusing human rights language for personal pressure, private disputes, coercion, financial gain, harassment, or unlawful influence.
- Using the organization to suggest affiliation with any government, IPO Pakistan, Trade Marks Registry, court, police, regulator, United Nations body, embassy, international agency, or public authority unless officially verified and authorized.
8. No Automatic Authority to Represent
No applicant or member may represent, bind, speak for, negotiate for, file proceedings for, issue statements for, or claim official authority on behalf of International Human Rights Movement unless written authorization is issued by the competent authority.
Possession of a membership card, certificate, office-title reference, social media post, photograph, past association, volunteer work, WhatsApp group membership, event attendance, or informal introduction does not create authority.
Written authorization must be specific
Any authorization must identify the authorized person, scope, duration, purpose, territorial limit if any, and conditions. The organization may withdraw authorization at any time where appropriate.
9. Trademark, Name, Logo, and Official Identity
International Human Rights Movement is identified with its registered trademark, Trademark No. 614993. All rights in the organization’s name, logo, identity, goodwill, certificates, cards, designations, letterheads, seals, documents, forms, digital assets, domain names, social pages, and public identity are reserved.
No person may copy, reproduce, alter, upload, publish, print, distribute, register, sell, license, assign, display, issue, or use the organization’s name, logo, mark, abbreviation, identity, certificate, card, designation, or official document without written authorization.
Unauthorized use may amount to breach of these terms, trademark misuse, passing off, false representation, impersonation, cyber misuse, or other actionable conduct under applicable law.
Related page: The dedicated Trademark & Legal Notice page should be read together with these terms.
10. No Fundraising or Financial Authority Without Written Approval
No member may collect, receive, request, solicit, transfer, hold, spend, or promise donations, funds, grants, sponsorships, contributions, membership fees, event charges, welfare funds, legal aid funds, certificates fees, card fees, or any payment in the name of the organization without specific written authorization.
If written fundraising authorization is ever issued, it must be purpose-specific, time-bound, properly recorded, subject to accounting, and conducted only through approved official channels. Personal accounts, informal receipts, private collection, or unrecorded handling of funds are prohibited unless expressly and lawfully authorized in writing.
11. Privacy, Data Use, Verification, and Records
Information submitted by applicants or members may be used for application review, identity verification, communication, record keeping, compliance, internal governance, event coordination, complaint handling, and lawful administrative purposes.
- The organization may request CNIC, address, contact details, photograph, occupation, references, or other information where reasonably required.
- False, forged, incomplete, or misleading information may result in rejection, suspension, cancellation, or legal action where appropriate.
- Members consent to official communications by email, phone, SMS, WhatsApp, postal address, or other lawful communication channels.
- Data may be retained for legal, administrative, verification, dispute, audit, and compliance purposes.
- Applicants and members should not submit information of third parties without lawful basis, consent, or authority.
12. Disciplinary Action, Suspension, Termination, and Cancellation
The organization may take disciplinary action where a member breaches these terms, misuses authority, harms the organization’s reputation, provides false information, engages in prohibited conduct, violates law, or acts contrary to the organization’s mission and values.
Depending on the circumstances, action may include warning, direction to correct conduct, temporary suspension, withdrawal of role, cancellation of membership, removal from a committee, cancellation of card or certificate, withdrawal of authorization, public clarification, reporting to appropriate authority, or legal action.
Where urgent action is required to protect the organization, public trust, complainants, members, records, trademark, funds, or legal interests, interim suspension or restriction may be imposed pending review.
13. Consequences of Non-Compliance
Non-compliance may create organizational, civil, statutory, trademark, cyber, criminal, reputational, or financial consequences depending on the facts and applicable law.
| Non-compliance | Possible consequence |
|---|---|
| Unauthorized use of name, logo, trademark, card, certificate, title, or identity | Warning, takedown demand, cancellation of membership, withdrawal of authorization, public clarification, injunction, damages, account of profits, delivery up, erasure, destruction or removal of infringing material, and other legal remedies where available. |
| Unauthorized fundraising or collection of money | Immediate suspension or cancellation, demand for accounts and return of funds, reporting to competent authority, recovery action, indemnity claim, and legal proceedings where facts and law permit. |
| False public representation or unauthorized statements | Correction notice, removal from position, restriction from communication channels, public disclaimer, takedown notices, disciplinary action, and legal action where appropriate. |
| Forgery, false documents, impersonation, or misuse of digital assets | Membership cancellation, withdrawal of cards or certificates, complaint before relevant authority, cyber or criminal proceedings where applicable, and claim for losses, costs, or damages. |
| Harassment, threats, discrimination, hate speech, violence, or unlawful conduct | Immediate suspension, termination, event exclusion, reporting to competent authority, and other action required to protect persons and the organization. |
Reservation of rights
The organization reserves all remedies available under applicable law, including civil, statutory, trademark, intellectual-property, cyber, criminal, contractual, equitable, and reputational remedies where the facts permit.
14. Limitation of Liability and Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, the organization, its office bearers, authorized representatives, volunteers, and affiliates shall not be liable for unauthorized acts, misrepresentations, fundraising, statements, documents, misconduct, negligence, or unlawful actions of any applicant, member, former member, volunteer, or third party.
Any person who misuses membership, identity, title, trademark, document, communication channel, card, certificate, letterhead, or public representation shall indemnify and hold the organization harmless from resulting claims, losses, damage, costs, legal expenses, reputational harm, regulatory action, or third-party claims to the extent permitted by law.
15. Governing Law, Dispute Handling, Amendments, and Severability
These terms are governed by the laws of Pakistan, including applicable civil, criminal, intellectual-property, trademark, cyber, electronic-record, privacy, organizational, and procedural laws where relevant.
Where appropriate, disputes may first be reviewed internally by the competent authority or designated committee. Nothing prevents the organization from seeking urgent protection, injunction, takedown, recovery, complaint, or legal remedy before a competent court, tribunal, authority, or forum.
The organization may amend these terms from time to time. Updated terms may be published on the website or communicated through official channels. Continued membership or continued participation after publication or communication may be treated as acceptance of the updated terms, subject to applicable law.
If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall continue to operate to the maximum extent permitted by law. Failure to enforce any provision shall not be treated as waiver of rights.
16. Contact and Reporting Misuse
Membership questions, reporting of misuse, unauthorized fundraising, false representation, or trademark misuse may be directed to the official contact channels below.
- Email: ihrmpunjab@gmail.com
- Phone: +92 300 6953368
- Office: 62-B, Shan Arcade, Barkat Market, Lahore - Pakistan
Effective / last reviewed: 06 July 2026.
AEO FAQ
Membership terms, authority, and legal compliance
Clear answers for applicants, members, office bearers, volunteers, and the public.
Does membership authorize someone to represent the organization?
No. Membership alone does not authorize representation, fundraising, public statements, legal proceedings, official titles, cards, certificates, or use of the organization’s identity unless written authorization is issued by the competent authority.
Can members collect donations, funds, or payments?
No. A member may not collect donations, funds, contributions, sponsorships, grants, fees, or payments in the name of the organization unless specific written authorization is issued.
Can a member use the IHRM logo or trademark?
No person may use the organization’s name, logo, trademark, card, certificate, designation, title, letterhead, document, or digital identity without written authorization and compliance with applicable terms.
Can membership be suspended or cancelled?
Yes. Membership may be suspended, cancelled, restricted, or terminated where a person breaches these terms, misuses authority, provides false information, acts unlawfully, or harms the organization’s reputation or public trust.
What law governs these terms?
These terms are governed by the laws of Pakistan, subject to any competent court, tribunal, authority, or forum having jurisdiction over the relevant matter.
Do these terms replace legal advice?
No. These terms are public membership terms for organizational governance. A final legal review should be obtained for any specific dispute, enforcement action, document, or legal proceeding.
Membership
Apply only after reading the terms carefully.
Applicants should understand the limits of membership, code of conduct, privacy use, trademark restrictions, and consequences of non-compliance before submitting an application.