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Nationalist strongmen are bent on controlling women’s bodies

By thehighasia
February 14, 2019
in :  Features, Human Rights, Latest, Opinion, Politics, Society, World
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From Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro to Hungary led by Viktor Orbán, women’s reproductive rights are being targeted Afua Hirsch When Brazil, where I am writing from this week, became worried that almost two-thirds of its population was black or mixed race, radical steps were taken. Never mind that the blackness of its population was thanks to its own dependence on …

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Asma’s legacy

By thehighasia
February 12, 2019
in :  Archives, Human Rights, Latest, Opinion, Pakistan, Slider
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Editorial IT is exactly a year ago that one of the bravest daughters of Pakistan, Asma Jahangir, passed away suddenly and quietly. A redoubtable defender of human rights and democratic values, champion of the downtrodden, and fierce opponent of repressive forces, she was, true to form, fighting the good fight to the end. Even today, indeed especially today, her voice …

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Women rights activists stress need to redefine ‘consent’

By thehighasia
February 10, 2019
in :  Human Rights, Latest, National, Pakistan, Society
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News Desk JAMSHORO: Women’s rights activists turned up in large numbers on Saturday at a talk on ‘Redefining consent’ as feminists discussed what “consent” meant on the part of women and that it needed to be redefined considering the fact that it was usually a woman’s powerlessness that was taken as her “consent” by tormentors. Women’s rights activist and writers, …

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Death in Loralai

By thehighasia
February 10, 2019
in :  Human Rights, Latest, National, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics
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Editorial Even as the investigation into the Sahiwal incident continues, the country has witnessed yet another example of not so dissimilar a brutality. This past Saturday, civil and political rights activist and a college professor Arman Loni died in Loralai, reportedly after or while being beaten up by the police. Ironically, this happened at a peaceful protest by civil rights …

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Protests continue for treatment, release of Baba Jan and others

By thehighasia
February 10, 2019
in :  Gilgit-Baltistan, Human Rights, Islamabad, Latest, Pakistan, Politics, Revolution
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Protesters call for an end to intimidation of progressive political activists and removal of names of Allama Hassan Johari, Shahzad Agha, Shabbir Mayar and others from ATA’s Schedule Four. HAH Report ISLAMABAD: Political and youth activists and progressive parties continue to protest for immediate checkup and treatment of imprisoned political leader Baba Jan and against intimidation of progressive and nationalist …

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Baba Jan’s appeal

By thehighasia
February 8, 2019
in :  Gilgit-Baltistan, Human Rights, Latest, Opinion, Politics, Revolution
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 Amir Hussain Languishing in Gahkuch jail in Gilgit-Baltistan, progressive political leader Baba Jan’s appeal to the prime minister of Pakistan to allow medical examination  and treatment for cardiac disease has gone unnoticed. Baba Jan is undisputedly the most popular political leader of Gilgit-Baltistan, serving a life sentence on multiple counts of concocted political cases. Baba Jan, along with 11 political …

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Pakistan’s top court orders actions against TLP, officers

By thehighasia
February 7, 2019
in :  Human Rights, Latest, National, Pakistan, Politics
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SC bench issues detailed verdict in TLP’s sit-in case, asking govt, security agencies not to ignore perpetrators of violence, hate HAH Report ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s top court has directed the government  to take action against those who obstructed people’s right to use roads,  damaged or destroyed property. The Supreme Court of Pakistan also directed the military top brass to take action …

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Arman Loni’s death

By thehighasia
February 6, 2019
in :  Human Rights, Opinion, Pakistan
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MYSTERY continues to shroud the sudden death of professor and activist leader Arman Loni in Loralai on Saturday. Family and friends of the deceased allege that the police were responsible for killing Loni during a crackdown on a days-long sit-in, yet the police claim that a postmortem revealed no signs of injury. Days later, there is still no clarity on …

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Case filed against Karan Johar, cricketers Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul for sexist remarks

By thehighasia
February 6, 2019
in :  Crime, Human Rights, Latest, Showbiz, Sports
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News Desk Karan Johar and Indian cricketers Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul are being sued for comments made about women in a December episode of talk show Koffee With Karan, according to India Today. The case has been filed in Jodhpur, but it is not clear at this point who has filed it. During the episode, Pandya was asked by …

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Rights activist Gulalai Ismail arrested from Islamabad

By thehighasia
February 6, 2019
in :  Human Rights, Islamabad, Latest, Latest News, Politics
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Rights activist Gulalai Ismail was arrested by Islamabad police on Tuesday, her father, Professor Muhammad Ismail, told Dawn.com on Wednesday. According to Professor Ismail, the activist was picked up from outside the National Press Club in Islamabad while she took part in a protest against the controversial death of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leader Arman Loni in Balochistan on Saturday. …

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Pakistan police culture of impunity faces trial by social media

By thehighasia
February 5, 2019
in :  Crime, Features, Human Rights, Latest, National, Pakistan, Politics
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Five policemen raise their guns and fire dozens of times into a parked car at point-blank range in Pakistan. Then they reach inside, around the bodies of the dead, to pull out three crying children. By Gohar Abbas Islamabad The footage filmed by shocked witnesses to the killing went viral, sending Prime Minister Imran Khan scrambling to quell anger over …

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Collapsing glaciers, invertebrates, and resilient mountains

By thehighasia
January 28, 2019
in :  Central Asia, China, Environment, Features, High Asia Region, Himalayas, Human Rights, Latest, Nepal, News, Opinion, Pakistan, Society
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Maria Dombrov Collapsing Glaciers in The Himalaya–Hindu Kush mountain ranges & the Tibetan Plateau From Nature: “Tibetan communities are dealing with the impacts of collapsing glaciers. In October 2018, debris dammed the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which forms the headwater of the Brahmaputra, threatening areas as far afield as Bangladesh with flooding.” Read more about how collapsing glaciers are affecting Asian communities and …

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Sahiwal shooting: How a Pakistani boy exposed police for killing his family

By thehighasia
January 28, 2019
in :  Child Rights, Crime, Human Rights, Latest, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics
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Hours after he lost his parents and a sibling in a bloody shooting on Saturday, a nine-year-old Pakistani boy exposed a blatant cover-up by police. By M Ilyas Khan  Islamabad: Hours after he lost his parents and a sibling in a bloody shooting on Saturday, a nine-year-old Pakistani boy exposed a blatant cover-up by police. Highly-trained counter terror forces had …

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The long road to justice for a student stabbed 23 times

By thehighasia
January 28, 2019
in :  Crime, Features, Human Rights, Latest, Pakistan, Politics, Society
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By M Ilyas Khan BBC News Islamabad On Wednesday, Khadija Siddiqui, a young Pakistani law student, watched the man who stabbed her 23 times in broad daylight re-convicted for the crime. It was the culmination of a three-year battle for justice that at one point saw the convicted attacker, her ex-boyfriend, acquitted by the High Court and allowed to walk …

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The alarming rise in suicide incidents in Gilgit-Baltistan

By thehighasia
January 24, 2019
in :  Child Rights, Human Rights, Hunza, Latest, Opinion
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How parents, teachers are failing their own; Society and government need to respond to red flags to prevent young from taking their own lives Memona Abbas Suicide is as complicated a phenomenon as human nature. Owing to its complex nature, it is difficult to identify if an individual is contemplating to take extreme step of ending her or his life. …

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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