KARACHI: The International Poverty and Human Rights Day is being observed on December 10 (today). The day marks the anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration
LAHORE: The Punjab government’s commitment to safeguard human rights can be gauged from the way it handled the Punjab Human Rights Commission after the fashion of the military government.Before the
KARACHI: The Shia Ulema Council, Karachi chapter, on Saturday described the women protection law as being repugnant to injunctions of Islam in so far as the question of rape and
LAHORE: Rights activists say that the Punjab government and its law enforcing agencies, like their federal and other provincial counterparts, have little respect for human rights as violations continue. They
LAHORE: President General Pervez Musharraf has categorically stated that the women’s rights act will neither be repealed nor changed. “The law has been passed; it will never be undone,” he
ISLAMABAD: The government is considering promulgating an ordinance on women’s rights, with content similar to the Prevention of Anti-Women Practices Bill 2006 submitted by Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain to the National
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