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2024 HRCP Report exposes worsening human rights emergency across Pakistan
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's 2024 report highlights democratic decline, rising militancy, enforced disappearances, and human rights abuses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It notes blasphemy-related violence, child and gender-based abuse, labour violations, and environmental crises, paint
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Pakistan: HRCP condemns hate speech targeting Senator for defending minori
Updated : 9 months ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan condemned hate speech against Senator Pervaiz Rashid for defending religious freedom after he raised concerns over police targeting an elderly woman during Eid. The HRCP warned that such actions endanger minorities, especially the Ahmadiyya community,
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HRCP slams Pakistan's 2025-26 budget for freezing minimum wage and short-c
Updated : 9 months ago IST
HRCP highlighted that the budget provides minimal support for low-income groups who are already coping with the ongoing inflation crisis that began in 2022 and extended through 2024.
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Pakistan: Human Rights Commission condemns Balochistan Assembly's new anti
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, or HRCP, has expressed serious concerns over the recent adoption of the Anti-Terrorism (Balochistan Amendment) Act 2025 by the Balochistan Assembly. Taking to social media platform X, the commission stated, "While national security is a legitimate con
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HRCP calls for repeal of PECA 2025, slams crackdown on free speech and dig
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A new HRCP report criticises Pakistan's amended cybercrime law (PECA 2025) for threatening free speech. It calls for its repeal, citing vague terms, harsh penalties, and excessive government control. Journalists and activists urge civil society to unite and protect constitutional freedoms, a
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HRCP slams deadly drone strikes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; demands probe, civi
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed deep concerns regarding the ongoing drone and quadcopter strikes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which are reported to have resulted in civilian deaths, including those of children, and has called for a thorough investigation as well as imp
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HRCP raises alarm over state crackdown on protestors in Moro; calls for im
Updated : 10 months ago IST
According to HRCP, the demonstration turned violent, resulting in casualties and injuries among both protestors and police personnel.
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Pakistan NGO raises alarm on forced evictions of Christian farmers
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for urgent government intervention following alarming findings from a recent fact-finding mission to Derek Abad, Kot Addu in Punjab province.
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Pakistan Human Rights Commission highlights decline in civic freedoms, det
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
In his remarks at the launch of annual report, HRCP chairperson Asad Iqbal Butt highlighted continued state-sanctioned violence in 2024, with at least 379 officially reported new cases of enforced disappearance, two extrajudicial killings of persons suspected of blasphemy and 4,864 staged po
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Pakistan: HRCP calls for action on land rights, women's inclusion in agric
Updated : 10 months, 4 weeks ago IST
The convention painted a bleak picture of the ongoing crisis in Pakistan's agricultural heartland, with climate change severely disrupting crop cycles and threatening the livelihoods of many farmers.
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HRCP condemns crackdown on Jamshoro student protest, urges Sindh govt to r
Updated : 1 year ago IST
HRCP condemned FIRs against protesting students in Jamshoro and urged the Sindh government to withdraw charges and release detainees.
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Pakistan: HRCP raises alarm over delays in resolving wrongful dismissal ca
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has raised serious concerns over the persistent delays workers face in seeking justice for wrongful dismissals, emphasising that these delays are often exacerbated by the undue influence of powerful corporations on the legal system. HRCP brough
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