United Nations A/HRC/31/NGO/X General Assembly Distr.: General 15 February 2016 English only Human Rights Council Thirty-first session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, […]
Pakistan
Pakistan: Laws are discriminatory to women, religious minorities
Baseer Naveed, ALRC; Bushra Khaliq, Women in Struggle for Empowerment (WISE); Zulfiqar Shah, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research 1. Are all persons and authorities bound by the same […]
How police in Pakistan purchased a man’s penis
Pakistan Desk, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong In 2007 a young cook from Larkan distict, Sindh province was arbitrarily arrested, kept in custody for three days and brutally beaten. […]
The province of Sindh as a case study on the prosecution service
Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid, Supreme Court of Pakistan (retired) & Professor Akmal Wasim, Hamdard University, Pakistan Prosecutorial services are generally governed by sections 492 to 495 of the Code of […]
Pakistan 2008: Defeat of a dictator and the movement for judicial independence
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong The year started violently under General Musharraf’s military regime, particularly for lawyers, political workers and civil society activists. Musharraf was sworn in for a […]
Urgent Appeals File: Tahmeena & Abida Bhutto–A trip to visit grandparents ends in an unmarked grave
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong & Human Rights Education Forum, Pakistan On 1 May 2004, Tahmeena Bhutto, 17, and her cousin Abida Bhutto, 18, left their village of Jano, […]
The mechanics of ‘honour’ in Pakistan
Iqbal Detho, Coordinator, Human Rights Education Forum, Pakistan & Amélie Barras, Researcher, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong Pakistani society is built on the Purdah system, which discourages contact between […]
naccessible justice in Pakistan
Ali Saleem, Project Coordinator, Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong Access to justice has emerged as a top priority and main area of international funding in Pakistan in recent years. […]
Effects of Pakistan’s Legal Framework Order on the judiciary
Naeem Shakir, Advocate, Lahore High Court, Pakistan The Legal Framework Order, or LFO as it is commonly known, has been under fire inside and outside Pakistan for the changes it […]
Women and religious minorities under the Hudood Laws in Pakistan
Naeem Shakir, Advocate, Lahore High Court, Pakistan Despite international treaties, covenants, human rights declarations, movements at global or local levels and resistance against repressive laws, norms, customs, administrative measures […]