Tirana Hassan, a lawyer and veteran human rights investigator of Pakistan origin, has been appointed the new executive director of the Human Rights Watch, as per the organisation's announcement. Hassan is known for documenting rights abuses in global crises and conflicts as chief programmes ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) wrote a letter to United Nations (UN) human rights council against the police treatment meted out to party leaders and workers. PTI leader Shireen Mazari on Thursday wrote a letter against the violence with the party workers to the UN representative Dr Alice Jill ...

ISLAMABAD – The US State Department has expressed concerns over human rights in Pakistan, pointing out several cases of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and discrimination against women, and children. The recent report, which was released as part of a series of reports ...

NAIROBI/ISLAMABAD – Kenya Human Rights Commission on Thursday declared the death of senior Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif a ‘pre-planned’ murder. The prominent journalist and TV show host Arshad Sharif, a vocal critic of the incumbent government and institutions, was killed in the ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan believes in the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries as enshrined in the UN Charter, Foreign Office said on Tuesday while responding to a UN report on human rights in Xinjiang. The report was circulated by the world body toward the end of ...

Pakistan has reiterated its grave concerns about India’s illegal demographic engineering of the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and its widely documented grave human rights impacts during the last three years. Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN offices in Geneva, Khalil Hashmi ...

An online petition has been launched in Australia on human rights abuses by Indian occupation forces in the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Its aim is to invite the attention of Australian parliament towards the massive human rights violations in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s “move to dissolve the Parliament rather than face a no-confidence” and said that the action “effectively deprives Pakistani citizens of their right to choose their government”. The watchdog said that the “move has plunged ...

ISLAMABAD - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir in its meeting here on Wednesday took stock of gross and widespread human rights violations in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 48th Session ...

India is involved in committing massive, systemic and brazen human rights violations under the patronage of Modi-led Fascist regime. A fresh report released by Asia Watch and Physicians for Human Rights has documented rape cases as source of disrespect to international laws and norms, and fast ...