ISLAMABAD: As civil society puts its act together and organises public opposition to President Pervez Musharraf in London, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has implored British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to tell Musharraf that free and fair elections will be impossible without the full restoration of Pakistan’s judiciary. In Pakistan, the lawyer community after a […]
LONDON (January 26 2008): President Pervez Musharraf faced a barrage of criticism and threatened protests on Friday ahead of his arrival in London for a visit including talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Human rights group Amnesty International plans a demonstration outside Downing Street on Saturday, while further protests are scheduled for Monday, the day […]
LONDON (January 26 2008): President Pervez Musharraf cast himself as a champion of human rights and free expression on Friday – then turned on a journalist who questioned him and said rights should have limits. Addressing a packed audience in Britain at the Royal United Services Institute, a defence think-tank, Musharraf spent 30 minutes explaining […]
NEW YORK (January 25 2008): A leading US-based human rights group on Wednesday urged Britain to boycott probe into the murder of Benazir Bhutto, branding the investigation “flawed.” British detectives “should not be part of a flawed Pakistani investigation” into the assassination, Human Rights Watch said, calling for an “independent international investigation such as under […]
KARACHI – Street crime rate is on rise day by day while a number of children are also involved in the addiction and trafficking of drugs in the city, revealed a study report prepared by the Initiator Human Development Foundation (IHDF) issued on Thursday. More then 15,000 street children in Karachi alone are being used […]
KHANEWAL, Jan 24: A 30-year-old man was allegedly tortured to death by police during custody at Nawan Shehar police station in Kabirwala tehsil, some 35 kilometres away from here, on Wednesday night. The police arrested Allah Bakhsh on Wednesday allegedly for selling liquor illegally. He was kept at the police station’s lock-up at night. However, […]
HONG KONG (January 24 2008): Two of Pakistan’s top lawyers, who led protests against President Pervez Musharraf’s attempts to sack the country’s chief justice, have won an Asian human rights award, organisers said on Wednesday. Munir Malik, former president, Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association together with his successor, Aitzaz Ahsan, have been awarded the Asian […]
LARKANA (APP) – Child Rights Committee (CRC) Larkana the functioning cluster of SPARC organization which is working to abolish the corporal punishment in schools has urged the district education department to ensure strict ban on corporal punishment. SPARC Sindh Protection Manager Kashif Bajeer -md CRC coordinator, members Apa Tabira Leghari, Nazir Ahmed Siyal, Shakeel Abbasi, […]
LAHORE – The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has called for withdrawing amended PEMRA Ordinance, terming it as intended to add to the punitive actions against media. The HPCP, through a statement on Wednesday, also shared the concerns of the journalist community, which it was showing over promulgation of the Cyber Offences Ordinance describing it […]
KARACHI: Sindh Caretaker Minister for Population Welfare, Nadira Panjwani has said that it is most essential that people should be sensitised with regard to population control programme as small family is a blessing. Talking to a group of women NGO’s at her office on Wednesday, the minister said that the role of media was most […]
LAHORE, Jan 23: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has called for removal of all curbs on media and of climate of fear in which newsmen are working for meeting the basic condition of free elections. Welcoming the lifting of ban on Geo channels, HRCP Secretary-General Syed Iqbal Haider said in a statement that the […]
ISLAMABAD (APP) – The Government of Italy will assist Pakistan in establishing the Human Rights Commission, which is in its nascent stages, to effectively address issues related to human rights. The assurance was given by Italian ambassador Roberto Mazzotta who called on CareÂtaker Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney here Monday. The ambassador informed him […]
LAHORE, Jan 19: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Chairperson Asma Jehangir was briefly stopped from travelling abroad by the immigration staff at Allama Iqbal International Airport on Saturday morning. Asma was taking an Emirates flight to Dubai at the start of a UN mission. She was told that she could not board the plane […]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 17: Around 1,595 children were abused, kidnapped or exposed to extreme violence last year in the country, more than double the figure compared to the year before, a report released here on Thursday said. According to the Centre for Missing Children’s report, 617 children were abused, kidnapped or subjected to extreme violence in […]
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