LAHORE: The UN Human Rights Committee also called the Committee on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR) on rights violations and raised concerns at the social media surveillance, internet and social…
KARACHI: As many as 2,093 cases of human rights violations were reported to the police between Jan 31, 2019 and Jan 31, 2020 and 2,115 suspects were arrested, police data…
KARACHI:Warning that the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will worsen human rights record of the country, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has observed that 2019 was the year of widespread…
ISLAMABAD—South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, has condemned the increasing attacks on journalists, including removing prominent journalist Hamid Mir from anchoring his prime…
I have been asked to write an evaluation of the rural weekly newspaper, Nawa-I-Ahmedpur Sharqia, published in Ahmedpur East, Bahawalpur. I had the opportunity to visit the newspaper’s premises and…
The Sindh Human Rights Defenders Network (SHRDN) has lauded the landmark legislation adopted by the provincial assembly to protect journalists. The Sindh province has always been ahead in enacting pieces…
