CALLING LAWYERS AND LEGAL ADVISORS We invite expressions of interest from qualified individuals to develop a report analysing recent legislation, rules or procedures—including draft bills or amendments—introduced by the federal or provincial assemblies that warrant attention

🚨 Press release Reframe human smuggling as issue of rights violations Islamabad, 28 August 2024. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called urgent attention to the rights violations endured by irregular migrants in its recently released report, Perilous Passage:

پریس ریلیز انسانی اسمگلنگ کو حقوق کی خلاف ورزیوں کے تناظر میں دیکھا جائے اسلام آباد، 28 اگست 2024: پاکستان کمیشن برائے انسانی حقوق (ایچ آر سی پی) نے اپنی حال ہی میں جاری کردہ رپورٹ "خطرناک سفر: پاکستان میں انسانی اسمگلنگ" کے ذریعے بے ضابطہ مہاجرین کے حقوق کی خلاف ورزیوں کی جانب

Another International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Another year without justice, accountability or reparations. Join us to express solidarity with victims and their families and to demand urgent redressal. Stand with us and amplify our call for

HRCP and allies across civil society marching for an end to enforced disappearances in Karachi today.

HRCP is deeply concerned by reports that Karachi University academic and political activist Dr Riaz Ahmed riaz ahmed was earlier taken into custody and then reportedly disappeared forcibly by unidentified persons. Strangely, he was brought back to the police station after the

It is estimated that between 80,000 to 100,000 Pakistanis try to escape the country in search for better economic opportunities abroad each year. It is a journey full of risk and mortal danger, facilitated by ruthless operators out to exploit the desperate for profit. Read

‘Who will take a stand for workers like us who are daily-wage workers?’ — Zafar, a former generator operator who lost his job without prior notice and has struggled to seek legal redress HRCP has released a report titled Seeking Redressal: Access to Justice for Vulnerable

Correction: the bill was introduced in the Senate.

1. The Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Bill, 2024 - currently before the Senate after approval by the Standing Committee on Interior - is essentially the negation of the right to peaceful assembly in Islamabad

ایچ آر سی پی کا ماہانہ اردو میگزین، جہدِ حق، پاکستان بھر میں 3000 سے زائد لوگوں تک پہنچتا ہے۔ یہ میگزین انسانی حقوق سے متعلق مقامی خبروں اور حقوق کی خلاف ورزیوں کے رجحانات پر مشتمل ہے۔ جہدِ حق کا ستمبر کا شمارہ مندرجہ ذیل لنک پر دستیاب ہے: hrcp-web.org/hrcpweb/wp-con… جہدِ حق کے

HRCP welcomes the Lahore High Court's ruling, under which the federal government's 2022 policy - requiring NGOs to register with the Economic Affairs Division if receiving foreign funds - has been declared unlawful because it lacks legal cover. The writ petition was filed earlier