Tag: Rights

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

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

Ambassador Cameron Munter and his wife, Dr. Marilyn Wyatt, together with the Aurat Foundation on Sunday, launched the Pakistan Gender Coalition, a network of...

Farida Afridi, executive director of non-government organisation SAWERA, was shot dead by unidentified assailants early Wednesday morning. Her relatives told reporters that Farida’s car...

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...

Regrettably, millions of women throughout Pakistan live in conditions of abject deprivation of, and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason...

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

A green passport isn’t a good enough wedding gift Rights and benefits arising out of citizenship is an essential concept to every legal framework. It...

Pakistani society is double faced in its views towards women. On one end, women are deemed to be the cornerstone of attention. They are...

Real estate tycoon Malik Riaz’s legal counsel, Zahid Bukhari said on Wednesday that there was no need to take Suo motu notice as their...

This is with reference to the news published in local dailies that Asma Jehangir – a senior Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist...

International day against Child Labour was marked across the globe and in Pakistan on Tuesday amid hundreds of thousands of children struggling for the...

This is with reference to Child Labour Day celebrated every year to highlight the plight of working children. Even though this day is regularly...

That Asma Jehangir, the famous Pakistani human rights activist, has received death threats for her fearless manner, is something that everyone condemns. But once...

Time for a deeper debate on the topic Some time back a doctor friend, who works at a large public hospital, called us to ask...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday said that it had consistently submitted complete and verified information to the various official probes...

The Standing Committee of National Assembly on Human Rights has taken notice of the rape of five tourist women by some security forces officials...