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Pakistan's human rights body urges immediate action to alleviate escalatin
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
The group demanded the imposition of price controls on essential goods such as staple foods and medicines.
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Human rights body holds Chinese President accountable for abuses on Uyghur
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
A Sweden-based Uyghur rights organisation the Svenska Uyghur Kommitten (SUK) generally known as the Swedish Uyghur Committee in a statement released on Sunday called upon China and its president Xi Jinping to inflict humanitarian abuses on the children belonging to East Turkistan.
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Pakistan: Sectarian violence claims 35 lives in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, human
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
After sectarian violence claimed 35 lives in Pakistan's northwest district of Kurram in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed concerns over the recent deadly tribal conflict and called on to peacefully resolve the conflict through negotiations.
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Kenyan human rights body condemns use of force amid Finance Bill 2024 prot
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The KNCHR has criticised President William Ruto for using brutal force against citizens protesting the Finance Bill 2024, which included unpopular tax hikes.
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Human Rights body condemns clerics for obstructing women's rights in Pakis
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Referring to another video that denounced the use of mobile phones by women relating it to 'obscenity', the HRCP in its statement released at the National Press Club in Islamabad on Saturday said that these videos use language that is derogatory towards women and also could potentially lead
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Pak human rights body demands revocation of Punjab Defamation Act 2024
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The HRCP called upon the administration to repeal the act pushed through a defamation law to curb fake news, however, civil society, and journalists say that it infringes on freedom of press and expression.
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Human Rights body demands establishment of mechanisms to stop custodial to
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), in a statement released on Wednesday, urged Pakistan to implement the anti-torture legislation.
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Pakistan: Human Rights body expresses concerns on killing of media profess
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Khalil Jibran, the former president of the Landi Kotal Press Club who used to work for a news outlet titled Khyber News, was gunned down by unidentified persons early this week. The media professional was also a volunteer for the HRCP.
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National Human Rights body takes suo motu cognizance of "anti-labour" prac
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The NHRC in a statement said that it has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that at one of the warehouses of a multi-national company in Haryana's Manesar "a 24-year-old worker was asked to pledge that they would not take toilet or water breaks until they finished unloading packages
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Sindhi Foundation organise protests in London, demands safe return of abdu
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
A Washington-based human rights body, the Sindhi Foundation and the local Sindhi community organised a long march on Friday from 10 Downing Street (the official residence of the British Prime Minister) to Pakistan's High Commission in Lowndes Square to demand the return and recovery of Priya
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Pakistan: Human Rights body raises concern about situation in Khyber Pakht
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday released its annual report on the status of human rights in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the year 2023.
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Sindhi Foundation to commemorate abduction of minor Hindu girl on June 14
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Sindhi Foundation, a Washington-based human rights body focusing on the human rights of Sindhis in Pakistan and elsewhere, on Tuesday announced to organise a long march on the streets of London to commemorate the abduction of Priya Kumari, a young Hindu girl, on June 14.
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