Taliban publicly flog nine convicted of robbery and "sodomy"

Local authorities and Kandahar residents were in attendance during the lashing. The spokesman for the provincial...

Civilian attacks 'must end immediately' in Ukraine, says UN

UN chief's Associate Spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay told during Monday's regular briefing for correspondents in...

Pak: UN experts urge action on coerced religious conversions

"We urge the Pakistan Government to take immediate steps to prevent and thoroughly investigate these acts...

Pak: Human Rights body condemns murder of Christian minor girl

Human Right Focus Pakistan condemned the murder of a Christian girl, who was kidnapped on December 25 while she was...

NHRC summons West Bengal DGP,seeks report on complaint

National Human Rights Commission on Monday issued a conditional summon to West Bengal Director General of Police...

Rights group condemns desecration of worship site in Pak

This week, the Express Tribune newspaper reported that a historic worship place of the Ahmadi community in Wazirabad...

Pak boy charged with blasphemy for calling god "cruel"

The danger of blasphemy laws in Pakistan is that blasphemy is not clearly defined, writes Marco Respinti for Bitter...

Ali Wazir: Face of Pakistan's non-violent movement

Wazir has been consistently targeted for his unequivocal criticism of the Pakistani Army and the human rights abuses...

OIC asks Taliban to reconsider ban on women from working for NGOs

The statement was issued by OIC in its final communique of the Extraordinary Meeting of the OIC Executive...

Chinese embassy 'firmly opposes' UK's Hong Kong report

On Thursday, the UK foreign office published a six-monthly report on Hong Kong, stating that "the Chinese and...

Pak: HRCP says food shortages leading to 'human rights crisis'

The HRCP said that labourer Harsingh Kohli's death is not the first casualty of the food security crisis until the...

NHRC hears 200 cases of human rights violation in Maharashtra

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday concluded its two-day camp sitting at Mumbai, organized to...