Category: Media Monitoring
Lifting EU sanctions will unlikely lead to an improved human rights situation in Burma
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Altsean-Burma Joint Press Release Lifting EU sanctions will unlikely lead to an improved human rights situation in Burma Paris, 24 April 2013 – FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) and its member organization Altsean-Burma regret that the European Union (EU) has discarded its own benchmarks for reform […]
Lal Masjid chief cleric acquitted in Rangers murder case
ATC Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman acquitted the chief cleric, his wife Majida Aziz alias Umme Hassan, his sister-in-law Humaira Rasheed Ghazi, daughter Tayyaba Dua, Maulana Abdul Qayyum, Mohammad Afzal, Nazakat Ali, Fidaullah, Mufti Sadiq, Inayatur Rehman, Riaz Ahmed, Mohammad Hayat, Safiullah, Noor Mohammad, Mohammad Asif, Abdul Latif, Ansar Shah, Safdarullah, Mohammad Usman and Maqsood Akbar, […]
UN team on missing persons arrives
ISLAMABAD: While in Pakistan, the working group will gather information pertaining to missing persons’ cases. It will meet government officials and families of missing persons and also visit all four provinces of the country. The working group will present its findings to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR). The group will be in […]
For an effective Arab League human rights protection system
Cairo, Paris, 21 February 2013 – An NGO high level strategic conference urges the Arab League to adopt an effective human rights protection system, as an urgent requirement to meet expectations of the peoples and address major violations of and threats to universal human rights in the Arab region. In a meeting with LAS Secretary General,Nabeel […]
Campaign against death Penalty: HRCP
A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, “a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had […]
Army accused of extra-judicial killings in Swat
WASHINGTON: The Pakistan Army is facing fresh accusations of carrying out extra-judicial killings and torture – claims that could threaten US funding for any units singled out for abuse. New York-based Human Rights Watch said it had briefed US State Department and congressional officials on “mounting evidence” of more than 200 summary executions in Swat […]
Forgotten victims of great games
One day in 1897, near the village Brumotul not far from Chitral, then a semi-independent Muslim state high in the Himalayas, a bunch of boys went walking. They were not Chitralis, but refugees from another place that lay west of the newly demarcated Durand Line. They were not Muslims, either. The boys would have described […]
Violence against women rose 13pc in 2009
Cases of violence against women witnessed a 13 per cent increase in 2009 in one year, statistics collected by team of Aurat Foundation show. Addressing a Press conference here on Monday, the foundation’s representative Rabeea Hadi said that 8,548 incidents of violence against women were reported in the four provinces and in Islamabad last year. […]
