Tag: children
UN Special Rapporteurs regret situation of forced conversions in Pakistan
January 10, 2023
Staff Report
LAHORE
A letter written by a group of Special Rapporteurs to the Government of Pakistan expresses regret about the current situation of...
Rights Watch | 16 December 2022
Man gets 21-year jail term for torturing wife
A sessions court handed down a 21-year imprisonment sentence to a man for torturing his wife and...
Rights Watch | 4 November 2022
40-year-old woman raped and set on fire
Lahore: A 40-year-old woman was set on fire after being raped by her ex-son-in-law in the Sherakot police...
Activists decry PM statement outside Karachi Press Club
June 27: Women's rights activists, representatives of civil society organizations including the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the transgender community and others protested in front of the Karachi Press Club over the PM's statement concerning the relationship between women's clothing and rape.
It’s Not the Dress, Its Your Mind
June 23: The Prime Minister has said too many times, that sexual assault is related to the clothes that a woman is wearing. what is the reason then, that so many children are raped everyday? Also it is deeply disturbing that the PM seems to be pushing an agenda of downright regression.
APS ATTACK: 6 years on, parents still await justice
“They are gone and can't come back," says one of the parents. "But we will strive till the end of our days to see that they get justice."
Most of the parents of the children martyred during APS massacre have not reached any closure even after the passage of six years. The only times where they have an opportunity for empathy, is when they all collect to remember their lost children. It is only them who can understand the depth of the grief that consumes them.
Single National Curriculum and parents’ freedom to choose
To summarize, the essence of parents’ freedom to choose for their children, there is no confusion in international instruments stressing on choices. The direction for the state is to maintain the conformity of minimum education ...
Rights Watch | 19th May 2020
Accused To Be Produced After May: Punjab jail authorities notified sessions and accountability courts that under-trial accused prisoners cannot be produced in courts until after May 31 due to the pandemic situation on ...
Rights Watch | 15th May 2020
Violence Against Women: A woman along with her sister and brother-in-law suffered severe burns after her husband set them ablaze following a squabble on Thursday, May 14 in Jauharabad in district Khushab, Punjab ...
Khairpur District Government Making Children Clean Its Filth
Instead of monitoring other sectors and eliminating the evil of child labor, the municipal committee in Sindh’s Khairpur district has hired children, from 10 to 15 years, for the purpose of cleaning sewers. But besides everything ...