There is a need for a rational debate on the death penalty involving scholars, jurists, academia, civil society and human rights defenders and legislation on the scope of the President’s powers to grant pardons to resolve the ambiguities created by the rulings of the superior courts.
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By Inayat Amir The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the state to criminalize torture and make
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The mission is especially alarmed by the apparent surge in suicide cases in various parts of GB, particularly in district Ghizer. A large number of these victims comprise women and the mission has reason to believe that some cases of honour killings have been labelled suicide and thus ‘forgotten
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Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has, in partnership with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), released
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His teaching career spanned 50 years, during which he served as the dean of journalism and mass communication at Beaconhouse National University.
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HRCP’s flagship annual report State of Human Rights in 2020 documents widespread human rights violations by HAH Special Correspondent Islamabad:
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High Asia Herald Report Journalists, politicians, academics, intellectuals and rights activists have expressed solidarity with the organisers of the Aurat
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Senator Raza Rabbani says, dictatorships of Ayub Khan and Ziaul Haq had deliberately isolated key ingredients of the democratic struggle, including students, labour and intellectuals. Although Benazir Bhutto had attempted to restore student unions in 1988, ‘the overarching state structure to which all political governments were, and continue to be, held hostage’ had prevented these efforts from materialising.
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News Desk Lahore: Rights activists have showered tributes on Asma Jehangir, co-founder and iconic human rights defender and courageous person.
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HRCP, PAC, WDF and WAF call for the immediate release of Professor Sajid Soomro and an end to the vicious
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Covid-19 pandemic affecting human rights, weakest segments of society invisible and unheard, notes HRCP in its flagship report High Asia
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The audience at the first Asma Jehangir memorial lecture organised by the HRCP at Islamabad Hotel on Tuesday. Credit: Asif
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There is a need for a radical shift, reforms in legislation, teachers’ training and behavioural transformation of society HAH Report
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Veteran legal expert and AWP founding president Abid Hassan Minto and ex-chairperson of HRCP I.A. Rehman have jointly filed the
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Herald Report A number of academics from public and private educational institutes of the city have set up a forum
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