MULTAN: The Makhdoom Rashid police have registered a case under the now obsolete Hudood Ordinance against a couple in violation of the newly introduced Women Protection Act (WPA) and allegedly harassed them at the behest of the bride’s influential family and local politicians. Majida Perveen, 22, of Jatt clan tied the knot with Muhammad Amin […]
LAHOREThe four NGOs which deal in runaway, lost and destitute children in the city are functioning despite their alleged involvement in “illegal activities”. The Child Protection and Welfare Bureau had requested the Punjab Social Welfare and Baitual Maal Department to immediately close down the Idara Khidmat-i-Khalq (Old Anarkali), Al-Nijat Foundation (Allama Iqbal Town), Children Help […]
KARACHI: The office bearers of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan have expressed concern over the disappearance of at least two minority Hindu community members. She said such disappearances would not go down well with the efforts being made by the government at the international level to promote a soft image globally. The HRCP demanded that […]
KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that it continue receiving complaints regarding kidnapping and disappearance of citizens from various parts of the country. According to a press release issued on Tuesday, Zohra Yusuf, Vice Chairperson of HRCP, said according to recent complaints, several citizens belonging to the Hindu community are the […]
THE state minister for information had announced on Saturday that Pakistan’s minorities would get good news on Christmas in the form of a review of discriminatory laws, which included the blasphemy law. Although the promised review did not come on Monday, one hopes that it will be taken up soon and the government has not […]
KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over some missing Hindus in Sindh, said a press release Tuesday, adding that several complaints have been received of “enforced disappearances”. On September 9, 2006, 55-year-old Gordhan Das (alias G. M. Bhagat) of district Umerkot was picked up from reportedly by four law enforcement […]
KARACHI: A large number of people belonging to different tribes held a protest demonstration on Monday outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) against the growing criminal activities in Warah, Kambar-Shahdadkot Districts. They were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans. Speaking on the occasion, Israr Sodhar said that the criminal activities were on rise in […]
Date: December 25-29, 2006 Location: Karachi Any gender-based act that results in physical, sexual or mental torture or harm to women or any form of threats to harm women may be described as gender based violence. In Pakistan, a majority of women not only lack their basic rights but also face social, cultural and economic […]
KARACHI: The human rights activist and former judge of Supreme Court, Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid, has said that the Hudood Ordinance had brought unlimited oppression and miseries for women belonging to poor sections of society and called for completely repealing the ordinance. Delivering a lecture on the “Condition of under-trial ladies and women prisoners” at […]
KARACHI: Seven per cent of Pakistani children from three years of age suffer from one or the other psychiatric disorder, while the percentage increases from 18 to 20 by the age of 14 years. Dr A Ghani Khan, a senior child psychiatrist associated with National Institute of Child Health (NICH) addressing a seminar ‘Psychological and […]
The controversy about the universal versus cultural relativist basis of human rights has been raging since at least 1945 or 1948 when proclamations where made by the UN on human rights. I believe human rights are defensible on a universal basis and cultural relativism is a negation of the philosophy of human rights. I will […]
IT is not certain how many young workers in the NWFP will benefit from the $1.5 million anti-child labour project supported by the ILO and the SDC, the official Swiss aid agency. But it is clear that there is a pressing need for such programmes in Pakistan where there are approximately 10 million child labourers, […]
Islam, which declared equality between men and women, In matters of marriage a woman was given equal right to choose her life partner However, in our practical lives, we are influenced by a host of other prejudices bequeathed by history, and tradition Male chauvinism and compulsions of conceited ego should not be confused with Islamic […]
POVERTY is frequently both a cause and a consequence of human rights violations. And yet the linkage between extreme deprivation and abuse remains at the margin of policy debates and development strategies. To draw attention to this crucial, but often neglected correlation, this year’s Human Rights Day, being observed today is dedicated to the fight […]
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