US to adopt new restrictions on using commercial spyware

The order responds to growing US and global concerns about programs that can capture text messages and other...

HRW urges Taliban to stop undermining girls' right to education

According to the report, Afghanistan is the only country that forbids girls from attending secondary school at the...

Activists raise human rights situation in Sindh at UNHRC

At a side event titled "Human Rights Violations in Pakistan", a panel of Sindhi activists including Fatima Gul,...

Atrocities against Baloch people highlighted at UNHCR

While addressing the UNHRC, Munir Mengal, a Baloch political and human rights activist, said, "I stand before you to...

Pakistan: Aurat March organisers present list of 60 demands

The demands were presented by women's rights activists, including Farzana Bari and Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir, before...

Rights activists term domestic violence an 'endemic' in Pakistan

According to The News International, a patriarchal mindset, depleting economic situation, religious extremism,...

"Uyghur detainee's death epitome of group's plight on Thai soil"

According to Bangkok Post, the 49-year-old man died earlier this week of a lung infection. Despite claims by...

Pak PM not authorised to allot PoK land: UKPNP chief

Human Rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP), Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, has said...

"Enforced disappearances continue in Pakistan's Sindh"

"The practice of enforced disappearance is still going on and hundreds and thousands of Sindhis, political workers,...

Root cause of PoK's problems is occupation by Pak: Activist

According to Mirza, the mode of relations between Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is not of equality but of...

Baloch leader Hidayatur Rehman charged with murder, provocation

A First Information Report (FIR) was lodged against Gwadar Rights activist Hidayatur Rehman on Monday for murder,...

Activist concerned over deprivation of rights of people in PoK

Human rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has raised...