Egypt: Newly adopted NGO Bill to annihilate the human rights movement
Geneva-Paris, November 18, 2016 – The Egyptian Parliament has approved a new NGO bill which, should it come into force, will eradicate associations in the country, said the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders today. Even more restrictive than the one put forward in September, this new legislative initiative is the latest attempt to […]
ALERT: HUMAN RIGHTS IN DANGER!
ALERT: HUMAN RIGHTS IN DANGER! REPRESSION AND GENOCIDAL DYNAMICS IN BURUNDI FIDH and its Burundian member organisation, the ITEKA League, have just published a new report on Burundi. This 200-page document is the result of 18 months of investigation and analysis. It shows how far President Nkurunziza’s government has advanced in its criminal actions to […]
HRCP slams media trial, slurs against author
Lahore, November 7: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called a smear campaign on the conventional electronic and social media against noted author and analyst Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa a disgraceful spectacle at odds with the values of a democratic and tolerant society. In a statement released to the media on Monday, the Commission […]
مصنفہ کا میڈیا ٹرائل اورکردارکشی قابل مذمت ہے
پریس ریلیز لاہور 07نومبر، 2016 پاکستان کمیشن برائے انسانی حقوق (ایچ آرسی پی) نے روایتی الیکٹرانک و سوشل میڈیا پر معروف مصنفہ اورتجزیہ کارڈاکٹرعائشہ صدیقہ کے خلاف چلنے والی مہم کو شرمناک قراردیتے ہوئے اسے جمہوری و روادارمعاشرے کی اقدارکے منافی قراردیا ہے۔ پیرکو جاری ہونیوالے ایک بیان میں کمیشن نے کہا کہ ڈاکٹرصدیقہ کو […]
Wahid Baloch disappearance: Senate body refers case to NCHR after HRCP briefing
Lahore, November 4: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights has referred the case of suspected enforced disappearance victim, Abdul Wahid Baloch, to the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR). The Senate committee had requested the HRCP team to brief it on a fact-finding conducted in the case by HRCP’s Sindh chapter. Abdul Wahid Baloch, […]
Call to end firing & tension along LOC
Lahore, Nov 01: The Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), a civil society organisation that has been working for peace and understanding between the two South Asian neighbours since 1994, is deeply concerned over the escalation of cross border firing across the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir. Quite a few civilians […]
ذہنی معذور قیدی کی پھانسی روکی جائے: ایچ آر سی پی
پریس ریلیز لاہور 27 اکتوبر 2016 لاہور، اکتوبر 27: پاکستان کمیشن برائے انسانی حقوق (ایچ آر سی پی) نے حکام سے مطالبہ کیا ہے کہ سزائے موت کے ایک ذہنی معذور قیدی کی پھانسی پر عملدرآمد روکا جائے جسے وہاڑی میں 02 نومبر کو پھانسی دیے جانے کا نوٹیفکیشن جاری ہوا ہے۔ ایچ آر سی […]
HRCP urges halting execution of mentally challenged prisoner
Lahore, October 27: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has urged the authorities to halt the imminent execution of a mentally challenged death row prisoner who is scheduled to be hanged in Vehari on November 2. In a communication sent on Thursday, HRCP brought to President Mamnoon Hussain’s attention the disposal by the Supreme […]
Canadian lawyers’ group calls for probe into Rashid’s murder
The Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, a group of lawyers and human rights defenders enjoying special consultative status with ECOSOC, has called upon the government of Pakistan to get the Rashed Rehman murder investigated by an independent agency. The group has also recommended the creation of a mechanism for providing protection to lawyers and other human […]
