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FIDH officials with Nobel Prize
The Tunisian League for Human Rights, FIDH member organisation in Tunisia, alongside the Tunisian bar, UGTT and UTICA have been awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. FIDH warmly welcomes this international recognition of the Quartet and the Tunisians’ essential struggle for democracy, fundamental freedoms, dignity and justice. It is an immense joy and a great […]
’سیاسی جماعتیں اب انتخابی اصلاحات پرفوری توجہ دیں‘۔۔۔ ایچ آر سی پی مہنگا ترین ضمنی انتخاب مکمل ہوا
پریس ریلیز لاہور 12 اکتوبر 2015 پاکستان کمیشن برائے انسانی حقوق نے اتوار کو ہونے والے ضمنی انتخاب میں حصہ لینے والی سیاسی جماعتوں پر زور دیا ہے کہ وہ ناخوشگوار انتخابی مہم کو خیر باد کہہ دیں تاکہ سیاست کا رُخ واپس عوام کے اصل مسائل کی طرف ہو سکے۔ کمیشن نے اس بات […]
HRCP asks parties to focus on real issues, electoral reform
Lahore, October 12: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has urged the political parties who contested Sunday’s by-elections to step back from the ‘rough campaigning’ to ensure that politics returned to the real issues of the people. It also called for urgent efforts for meaningful election reform. In a statement issued on Monday, the […]
Murder accused dies in Sargodha Jail
SARGODHA: An accused for murder crime, imprisoned in Sargodha District Jail was mysteriously found dead on Saturday morning. Jail sources said that accused Mumtaz Hussain, a prisoner of murder case in Shahpur Jail Sargodha slept at night and in morning was found death when tried to awake him. Some sources claimed that the death was outcome of […]
Illegal detention: Labourer recovered from factory in I-9
ISLAMABAD: The police during a raid at a factory at I-9/2 on Tuesday recovered a labourer who was found chained in a courtyard at the site and have booked six men. On a tip off, Saddar Circle Magistrate Abdul Hadi raided a factory in Sector I-9, where he found Mubarak Ali chained in a courtyard. The […]
کچھ نادیدہ قوتیں بنیادی انسانی حقوق کو ملیا میٹ کرنے پر تُلی ہوئی ہیں
لاہور 6اکتوبر،2015ء پریس ریلیز پاکستان کمیشن برائے انسانی حقوق نے جمہوریت اور انسانی حقوق کو درپیش خطرات میں اضافے پر گہری تشویش کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ اس وقت سماج میں انسانی حقوق کو نظرانداز کرنے کے علاوہ سول۔ فوجی عدم توازن میں اضافہ ہورہا ہے جس کے باعث جمہوریت اور انسانی حقوق […]
Six cops booked for ‘killing’ man in raid
KASUR: Kot Radha Kishan police on Sunday booked six policemen, including a sub-inspector, for torturing a man to death during a raid at Klarkabad on Sunday. According to the complainant, Shahzad Masih, a team of Okara Cantt area police headed by SI Ghulam Ali stormed his house and started beating his father Habib Masih, with […]
Emerging Powers Succeeding in Debilitating the Human Rights Council
Geneva, 2 October 2015 – Behind-the-scenes deals that promote impunity are getting the upper hand over transparent multilateral processes at the UN Human Rights Council. The adoption of a flawed resolution that turns a blind eye to crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen is a clear illustration of this. The Council’s failure to […]
Gathering clouds threaten democracy, rights: HRCP
Karachi, October 5: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed alarm over growing threats to democracy and human rights amid a combination of neglect of human rights and a ‘civil-military imbalance’. A statement issued at the conclusion of the autumn meeting of the Commission’s Executive Council said: “The HRCP Executive Council notes with […]
