Tag: Human

State of human rights going from worse to worst

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed alarm at growing intolerance and abuse of belief, continued incidents of enforced disappearance and illegal...

SHARP organises training on human rights

The Society for Human Rights and Prisoner’s Aid (SHARP) on Friday organized a one day raining workshop on the topic of the role of...

Deweaponisation of city recommended

National Assembly's Standing Committee on Human Rights recommended deweaponsization and doubling of police personnel in Karachi. The NA standing committee on Human Rights urged the...

Stranded human body parts spread panic

Tension and insecurity gripped various parts of the garrison city after the recovery of human body parts in the jurisdiction of three police stations. According...

PPP protects minorities, women rights, says Naveed Chaudhry

Media coordinator to the President, Naveed Chaudhry, said that the government honors rights of minorities and women. Talking to reporters, he said "The National Assembly...

HRCP launches online archive

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has launched an online searchable database (www.hrcparchive.com), which contains newspaper clippings, documents and data pertaining to human rights...

HRCP launches online archive

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has launched an online searchable database (www.hrcparchive.com), which contains newspaper clippings, documents and data pertaining to human rights...

Syria raid kills 43: some tortured, executed

A raid by Syrian security forces near the capital Damascus killed 43 people, some of whom were tortured and executed, the Syrian Observatory for...

THE FATE OF THE WORLD IS IN YOUR HANDS

Humankind is facing an imminent threat of extinction, according to new research released this week by the science journal Nature. The report ‘Approaching a...

NA body wants Human Rights secretary on his toes

The National Assembly Standing Committee for Human Rights on Wednesday expressed its dissatisfaction over the restructuring of the ministry, and asked the secretary to...

LIMITS TO HUMAN PERCEPTION

Every human has limits. You can only run so fast, jump so high, and go for so long without water. But what about restrictions...

Human mattress dominoes record broken

The world record for human mattress dominoes has fallen for the second time in 2012. Guinness World Records announced that 1,001 volunteers in China...

Team Human

At first glance, Team Human by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan looks like a Twilight spoof, or rather a funny antidote to Twi-mania....

Political parties must act responsibly for the sake of democracy: HRCP

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious concerns at looming dangers for the democratic dispensation in the country and called upon...

18 ‘non-Baloch’ men murdered in cold blood in Kechh

As many as 18 Pakistani illegal immigrants, majority of who were Punjabis, were gunned down and two others injured in a deadly attack in...

Syria walks out of UN Human Rights Council debate

Syria on Wednesday stormed out of a UN debate on a freshly critical report on the rights abuses in the conflict-torn country. "We will not...

Quetta bomb hits university bus, two dead

A car bomb exploded near a university bus Monday killing two students and wounding over 25 other people, most of them students, in Quetta,...