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Pakistan's hollow promises on women's safety exposed as gender violence, d
Updated : 5 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Women's rights activists in Pakistan warned that gender-based violence is rising and most survivors lack access to justice. At an HRCP event, speakers highlighted weak law enforcement, poor support systems, low conviction rates, and inadequate mechanisms to address digital harassment, urging
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Pakistan: 785 enforced disappearances, 121 killings documented in first ha
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Baloch National Movement's human rights department, Paank, made a chilling revelation of the dangers being faced by Baloch activists in Pakistan. It said on Thursday that in the first 6 months of 2025 alone, Paank documented 785 enforced disappearances and 121 killings.
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EU rights group, UN experts condemn detention of Baloch activists in Pakis
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The organisation also expressed concern over the "attempted arbitrary detention" of WHRD Sabiha Baloch on 5 April, stating that her family has since been threatened, which seems to be "a direct retaliation for her human rights advocacy in Balochistan."
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Baloch Human Rights Council urges UN intervention amid ongoing repression
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) has called for the urgent intervention of the United Nations Secretary-General in the ongoing repression of Baloch activists in Pakistan. In a press release, the BHRC urged the UN to press Pakistani authorities for the immediate and unconditional releas
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Pakistan: FIA initiates action against vloggers, journalists for promoting
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
So far, the FIA Cybercrime Wing has arrested more than 20 social media activists in Pakistan for controversial posts about alleged deaths during the crackdown on PTI protesters.
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Rights Body raises alarm over detention of political activists in PoGB
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has raised serious concerns over the detention of political activists in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan.
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Pakistan: Public remains agitated over brutality against blasphemy victim
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The general public and human rights activists in Pakistan continue to remain agitated over the rising number of Blasphemy and extrajudicial killing incidents in the Sindh province of Pakistan.
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Baloch activists launch social media campaign, call on UN to probe 'genoci
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Baloch activists in Pakistan have now called on the United Nations to carry out further probe into the ongoing 'genocide' in a social media campaign, raising the hashtag "#UNForBalochistan," the Balochistan Post reported.
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Activists in Pakistan urge calling off forced deportation of Afghan refuge
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The civil society activists in Pakistan have demanded to halt the forced deportation of Afghan refugees from the country, as many of them continue to face harsh circumstances amid the ongoing situation, TOLOnews reported.
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Pakistan: 6-year-old Hindu girl sexually assaulted
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Human rights organizations and activists in Pakistan have called for attention on social media to the case of a 6-year-old Hindu girl nicknamed Ritu (real name omitted for privacy reasons), which was abducted and sexually abused by two 23-year-old Muslim men while she was playing outdoors in
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Activists in Pak's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa demand end to unwarranted police rai
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Activists from Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa condemn "unwarranted" police raids on their houses.
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Govt oppression of Muhajirs continues in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], September 24 (ANI): The oppression of the Muhajir political activists in Pakistan -- Muslim immigrants who migrated from various regions of India after the Partition of India, has continued in the country as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) claimed that three of its par
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