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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 treaty was signed in New Delhi by the Prime Minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru and the Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan on April 8, 1950. [3] The treaty was the outcome of six days of talks sought to guarantee the rights of minorities in both countries after the Partition of India and to avert another war between them .
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 ...
Javeri representing Pakistan. Rabiya Javeri Agha (born Rabiya Adila Javeri; December 2, 1963) is the Chairperson of the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) in Pakistan, [1] and a retired civil servant officer who served in the Government of Pakistan in BPS-22 grade as Federal Secretary.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan data, just around 1,000 Hindu families fled to India in 2013. [152] In May 2014, a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani , claimed in the National Assembly of Pakistan that around 5,000 Hindus are migrating from Pakistan to India every year.
A national human rights institution (NHRI) is an independent state-based institution with the responsibility to broadly protect and promote human rights in a given country.
The National Commission on the Status of Women Act, 2012 [7] was passed by the parliament to establish a statutory body with a broad mandate and powers to carry out inquiry of women's rights violations. The National Commission on the Status of Women (Amendment) Act, 2018 [8] was adopted by the parliament to ensure that the new chairperson of ...
A human rights commission, also known as a human relations commission, is a body set up to investigate, promote or protect human rights.. The term may refer to international, national or subnational bodies set up for this purpose, such as national human rights institutions or (usually temporary) truth and reconciliation commissions.