March 24th, 2021; By Hamid Riaz & Hassan Raza; LAHORE; Baba Jan visited the office of the late Asma Jahangir to offer his condolences and thank his allies for standing with him throughout the nine years he had spent incarcerated as a prisoner of conscience.
November 21st, 2020; By Hamid Riaz; LAHORE; Nisha Rao transwomen in her late 20s shot to fame when she became the first most successful practicing transgender lawyer in the country. We sat down with Nisha for a candid conversation about her experiences in the legal profession.
December 24th, 2020; By Ahmad Saeed; LAHORE; Meet Rani Khan, a transgender who gave up dancing and begging to become a reformer. She runs a seminary in Islamabad and claims that many in her community want to quit begging and dancing, but they have no other means to earn their livelihood
Pakistan’s prisons are currently severely over-capacity, with a disproportionate amount of women, children, elderly offenders, physically and mentally incapacitated detainees, under-trial offenders and petty offenders in detention. Moreover, overcrowding makes implementation of social distancing and other preventative measures difficult,...
Jul 18, 2020: Pakistan’s Parliament should take every measure to strengthen and enforce laws regarding the minimum age of marriage and conversion of religion, said Sulema Jahangir, a dual qualified solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and ...
Jun 17, 2020: Chairman of the Balochistan National Party (BNP-M), Sardar Akhtar Mengal pulled out with his party’s 4 seats in the National Assembly from the coalition government with the ruling party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ...
"Families of the forcibly disappeared feel a special kind of pain. When I look at the condition of my household I can't help but cry out, it is impossible for me to stay silent," says Sami Deen
December 13, 2020; By Hamid Riaz; LAHORE; Mehar Sattar returned home this September after spending over 4 years in jail including almost 2 in solitary confinement.
Though his passion for helping the oppressed remains firm he still fears being dragged back to a cage.
Our reporter in Lahore, Haider Kaleem interviews the chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party & Standing Committee on Human Rights (National Assembly)
Haider Kaleem: What role will the Pakistan Peoples Party play in blocking the new social media regulations?
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari:...
Jul 17, 2020: Barely 1% of Pakistani women are involved in entrepreneurship, in part due to the prevalence of a deeply patriarchal society that bars women from economic participation, and the lack of economic access and opportunities ...
