Tag: Rights
PNMA aims to work for prosperity of news media
--PNMA to comprise editors, TV anchors, columnists, writers, intellectuals, advertising professionals
LAHORE: A new widespread and broad-based media organisation by the name of Pakistan News...
Speakers argue exclusion of urban majority from decision-making in city
LAHORE: Speakers at a seminar on Saturday argued that a large section of the population in urban centres had been excluded from decision-making in...
Senate HR body discusses attacks on minorities, regrets lack of progress
ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights Thursday said that equal rights are constitutionally guaranteed to each Pakistani, including minorities in the country.
The committee...
It’s time someone stands up for rights of middle class: Jawad...
Singer-turned-activist Jawad Ahmad, who is challenging the country’s three biggest parties in the general elections scheduled for July 25, on Wednesday said it was time...
Government policies aimed at protecting labourers’ rights, says president
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan along with the rest of the world is celebrating International Labour Day today on May 1.
With its origins seeded in the late...
PPP only party guaranteeing women rights: Nafisa
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Secretary Information Dr Nafisa Shah has asked women of the country to join PPP as it is the only...
Activists presscon called off after police warning in Thailand
BANGKOK: A news conference by a Thai rights group was called off on Tuesday following a police warning not to hold the event or...
Costa Rica election: New president amid row over gay rights
SAN JOSE: Costa Ricans vote for a new president on Sunday in a race upended in the final weeks by a debate over same-sex...
Peru human rights victims families ask court to nullify Fujimori pardon
SAN JOSE: The families of victims of human rights abuses under former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori testified on Friday at an international human rights...
Vietnam should drop charges against human rights defenders, says HRW
NEW YORK: Vietnam should drop charges against human rights defender Hoang Duc Binh and another defendant, Nguyen Nam Phong, and immediately release them, Human Rights...
Govt will leave no stone unturned for protection of rights of...
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Food Bilal Yaseen pledged on Saturday to continue surprise visits to sugar mills till the end of the crushing season....
South American human rights court urges legalising same-sex marriage
SAN JOSE: A Latin American human rights court said on Tuesday that countries in the region should legalise same-sex unions, endorsing a growing push...
Iran protests: Deaths in custody spark human rights concerns
TEHRAN: Human rights activists in Iran have raised concerns about mass arrests during the country’s largest protests in nearly a decade after at least three demonstrators...
UN head warns govts to remember rights, obligations in terror fight
LONDON: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned governments Thursday to remember their rights obligations when tackling terrorism – and rounded on the media for ‘demonising’ minorities.
Modern...
Karachi’s home-based workers await registration as labourers
KARACHI: Home-based workers (HBWs), being the significant proportion of the workforce, are waiting for their basic rights to be registered as workers. The HBWs policy...
Govt adopts all possible measures to safeguard fundamental rights of citizens:...
President Mamnoon Hussain has said the Constitution of Pakistan guarantees freedom to its citizens regardless of their caste, colour or creed and Government is...
Sanaullah irked by people protesting on roads for their rights
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah in a Punjab Assembly proceeding on Thursday has said that it is true that farmers had made certain demands,...
