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Mother Teresa Canonized as a Saint in Special Mass Offered by His Holiness Pope Francis at the Vatican
September 06: The National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP), a rights based organization of Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference, highly appreciates the canonization of Mother Teresa as a Saint by His Holiness Pope Francis at the Vatican on Sunday, September 4, 2016. St. Teresa of Calcutta died in 1997 at the age of 87. During her […]
Declaration of the FIDH Congress in solidarity with human rights defenders at risk
The 39th FIDH Congress, meeting in Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa) from 25 to 27 August 2016, wishes to express its solidarity and its support with human rights defenders who, across the planet, are subjected to harassment, attacks, repression and criminalisation for promoting human rights. Stressing that safety of human rights defenders is especially precarious […]
جنوبی ایشیائی ریاستوں کو جبری گمشدگی کو جرم قرار دیناچاہیے
پریس ریلیز لاہور 30اگست، 2016 عالمی کمیشن برائے ماہرین قانون (آئی سی جے) اور پاکستان کمیشن برائے انسانی حقوق (ایچ آر سی پی) نے جبری گمشدگی کے متاثرین کے عالمی دن پر ایک کانفرنس منعقد کی جس میں بنگلہ دیش، ہندوستان، نیپال، پاکستان اور سری لنکا سے وکلاء اور کارکنوں نے شرکت کی جن کا […]
Supreme Court validation of military court trials a blow to the rule of law and human rights
Geneva, August 29: The Pakistani Supreme Court today rejected 16 petitions by families of people sentenced to death by military courts on fair trial grounds. The Court has held the petitioners failed to prove the military courts’ proceedings violated their constitutional right to a fair trial. As highlighted by the ICJ in a briefing paper […]
What happened to Zeenat Shahzadi?
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses grave concern for Pakistani journalist Zeenat Shahzadi who has been missing since August 2015. The IFJ demands Pakistan’s authorities to take immediate action to find her kidnappers and reveal the status of investigations into the disappearance of the young woman reporter. Zeenat Shahzadi, a journalist for the Daily Nai […]
South Asian States must criminalize enforced disappearances
30 August 2016: Large-scale enforced disappearances in South Asia can only be addressed if all the region’s governments immediately criminalize this serious human rights violation, said lawyers and activists from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka during a Conference on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, organized by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Human […]
SAHR Expresses Concern on the Curtailment of the Freedom of Expression in the Maldives
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, strongly condemn the legalization of the Anti-Defamation and Freedom of Expression Act by The Maldivian Parliament on 9 August, 2016 and for not addressing the serious concerns raised and amendments suggested by civil society, political parties, and the international community. The law […]
