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The human rights violations of the Ahmadiyya community has been systematic and state-sponsored. General Zia, the military dictator of Pakistan, went many steps further in 1984, when to gain the support of Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan, he promulgated the anti-Ahmadiyya Ordinance XX that added Sections 298-B and 298-C in Pakistan Criminal ...
Mahrang Baloch (Urdu: ماہ رنگ بلوچ; Balochi: مهرنگ بلۏچ) is a Pakistani human rights activist against alleged enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and other human rights abuses in Balochistan.
It is a practical means of protecting human rights on the state level and requires the state to not just only protect human rights de jure but also in practice for individual cases. [3] [5] [6] [7] The right to an effective remedy is commonly recognized as a human right in international human rights instruments. [1] [2] [8] [9]
The move to outlaw the PTM drew immediate backlash from human rights organizations including Amnesty International. [15] The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) condemned the ban, calling it an "extreme decision" and demanded its reversal. According to the HRCP, PTM has consistently advocated for its cause through non-violent and ...
Human rights activists said his case was likely an exception since he was convicted in a military court. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] On 16 December 2014, after the Peshawar school attack , in which the Pakistani Taliban murdered 132 children and at least nine others, the authorities announced the moratorium would be lifted for terrorism cases. [ 23 ]
Honour killing is an act of murder, in which a person is murdered for his or her perceived immoral behaviour. Such "immoral behaviour" may take the form of alleged marital infidelity, refusal to submit to an arranged marriage, demanding a divorce, perceived flirtatious behaviour and being raped.
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.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human ...