Search For "human rights act"
HRW urges Taliban to stop undermining girls' right to education
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to the report, Afghanistan is the only country that forbids girls from attending secondary school at the moment, and the ruling Taliban regime should cease undermining the future of girls, women, and the nation.
Read More
Activists raise human rights situation in Sindh at UNHRC
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
At a side event titled "Human Rights Violations in Pakistan", a panel of Sindhi activists including Fatima Gul, Muzafar Talpur, Reva Tharwani and Sindhu Rustamani highlighted the situation of the region with an aim to seek the world's attention on the repression of Sindhi people.
Read More
Atrocities against Baloch people highlighted at UNHCR
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
While addressing the UNHRC, Munir Mengal, a Baloch political and human rights activist, said, "I stand before you to draw your attention to the ongoing human rights violation against the Baloch people in Pakistan. The Baloch people have been subjected to a range of abuses including disappear
Read More
UKPNP chief says Pakistan PM not authorised to allot PoK land to non-state
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Human Rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP), Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, has said Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) is part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Taking to his Twitter handle, he said Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is not
Read More
Enforced disappearances continue in Pakistan's Sindh: Human rights activis
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
"The practice of enforced disappearance is still going on and hundreds and thousands of Sindhis, political workers, human rights activists have disappeared," Bhutto said during the CHRAPA side event on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Process in Pakistan.
Read More
London-based rights activist raises issue of deprivation of basic rights o
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Human rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has raised concerns over the deprivation of basic rights of people in Gilgit Baltistan.
Read More
1,200 Human Rights activists and media persons killed by Pakistan's agenci
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
"The root cause of the genocide of 1971 and the reasons for the secession of Bangladesh remain intact, viz., the religious fascist ideology at the heart of Pakistani Islamism. He reiterated that this does not only persecute Pakistan's own minorities or its neighbors but makes Pakistan the in
Read More
Taiwanese can be targeted through mutual legal assistance treaties: Activi
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Lee, who was imprisoned in China from 2017 to April 2022 on charge of subverting state power, urged the Taiwan government to react on time to prevent China from abusing the extradition treaties.
Read More
Activists hold conference in Brussels; call for recognising 1971 Banglades
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
In a memorandum submitted to European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, the intellectuals called for condemnation of ongoing genocides worldwide and demanded recognition of the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh.
Read More
China's COVID protests highlight need to protect Chinese diaspora, says ri
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The calls for greater scrutiny of China's actions in Canada come amid protests against Beijing's zero-Covid policy in US and Canada and controversy surrounding the overseas "Chinese police stations."
Read More
Taliban arrests women activists, journalists in Hazara neighbourhood of K
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Taliban arrested women journalists and human rights activists, along with four men from the Hazara neighbourhood in West Kabul and intrusively disrupted a women's press conference held in Dasht-e-Barchi area, continuing their atrocities.
Read More
Rights Activists welcome US resolution on Bangladesh genocide by Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Human rights activists welcomed the introduction of a US resolution on the 1971 Bangladesh genocide by Pakistan.
Read More