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The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (Urdu: ماموریہ برائے انسانی حقوق پاکستان) (HRCP) is an independent, democratic non-profit organisation. Founded in 1987, it is one of the oldest human rights organisations in the country. HRCP is committed to monitoring, protecting and promoting human rights in Pakistan.
The ministry is headed by Khalil Francis, the Minister for Human Rights, while A.D Khowaja serves as the Federal Secretary. The historically contentious issue of human rights in Pakistan received an added emphasis from the highest leadership of Pakistan when the ministry was chipped out of the Ministry of Law and Justice on November 3, 2008. [1 ...
In response the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and some other civil organizations protested in front of the Karachi Press Club in the city of Karachi. [ 114 ] On April 16, 2023, radical islamists in Pakistan attacked and demolished an over 100-year-old worship place of the minority Ahmadi community in the Punjab province.
In 2011, human rights groups reported 720 honour killings in Pakistan (605 women and 115 men), [21] while Pakistan's Human Rights Commission reported that in 2010 there were 791 honour killings in the country, [22] and Amnesty International cited 960 incidents of women who were murdered in honour killings that year. [23]
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan data, just around 1,000 Hindu families fled to India in 2013. [179] In May 2014, a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, revealed in the National Assembly of Pakistan that around 5,000 Hindus are migrating from Pakistan to India every year. [180]
UNHCHR: Individual Complaint Procedures under the United Nations Human Rights Treaties Fact Sheet No.7/Rev.2, pdf. 20 S. UNHCHR: A Handbook for Civil Society Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme, New York und Genf, 2008, engl., pdf. 206 S. UNHCHR: Handbook for Human Rights Treaty Body Members New York und Genf, 2015, engl ...
In 2022, Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison said in a press release that investigators believe the 10,000 human bones and fragments police found at Baumeister’s property in the 1990s could be ...
Rashid Rehman (13 October 1958 – 7 May 2014) was a Pakistani lawyer and a regional coordinator for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). [1] He was well known for his work with clients who were poor or who were charged under Pakistan's vigorous blasphemy laws .