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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 Constitution of Pakistan provides for fundamental rights which include freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and the (conditional) right to bear arms. It has been changed several times in its short history, with Islamization being ...
Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Without Frontiers International. HURIDOCS. IFEX. Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission. Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense. International Alliance of Women. International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.
t. e. The Ministry of Human Rights ( Urdu: وزارت انسانی حقوق, abbreviated as MoHR) is a federal government agency 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 ...
Following a General Assembly resolution in 1992 containing a 21 article declaration about enforced disappearance, and its resolution of 1978 requesting that recommendations be made, the Commission on Human Rights established an "inter-sessional open-ended working group to elaborate a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance" in 2001.
Women related laws in Pakistan. The legislative assembly of Pakistan has enacted several measures designed to give women more power in the areas of family, inheritance, revenue, civil, and criminal laws. These measures are an attempt to safeguard women's rights to freedom of speech and expression without gender discrimination.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan lists 460 cases of reported honour killings in 2017, with 194 males and 376 females as victims. [ 18] Of these murderings, 253 were sparked by disapproval of illicit relations and 73 by disapproval of marriage choice. [ 18] Additionally, out of the known suspect relationship with victims, over 93% were ...
The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights was the main subsidiary body of the Commission on Human Rights. It was composed of twenty-six experts whose responsibility was to undertake studies, particularly in light of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and make recommendations to the Commission concerning the ...