The use of pellet guns during a Delhi student protest has sparked questions over proportionality, police preparedness, human rights and the rules governing crowd control.
Several members of the Kashmiri diaspora in Belgium staged a protest march from the European Parliament to the United Nations office in Brussels, condemning the killings of innocent civilians by Pakistani forces in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), amid the escalating unrest in the region.
A report has criticised Western media for allegedly giving limited coverage to reported violence and human rights concerns in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Pakistan's Human Rights Commission and civil society members have demanded the withdrawal of Punjab's proposed Habitual Offenders Bill, arguing that it undermines constitutional rights and expands state powers without adequate safeguards.
Pakistan’s longstanding narrative of representing the interests of Kashmiri Muslims on global platforms while alleging that India violates their rights is increasingly contradicted by the ground realities in Pakistanoccupied Kashmir (PoK). In the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Legislative Assembly elections were held in 2024 alongside sustained infrastructure investment. This included the inauguration.
The unrest in Pakistanoccupied Kashmir (PoK) must serve as a compelling case for independent factfinding mission by the United Nations and other international organisations to carry out investigation into the Pakistani army's excesses, civilian deaths, arbitrary arrests, and human rights violations in PoK.
A leading international human rights organisation on Monday expressed serious concern over the overnight Pakistani military airstrikes carried out in Afghanistan's provinces of Paktia, Paktika, and Kunar, killing and injuring several civilians, including women and children.
Quetta: The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) has announced that its central leader, Mahrang Baloch, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the second time, describing the recognition as an acknowledgment of her advocacy for human rights and peaceful activism. The announcement came days after a Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court sentenced Mahrang Baloch and three.
Pakistan has continued to enjoy export benefits to the European markets under the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+), despite its continuous track record of human rights, labour, governance, and environmental violations, which have dented Islamabad’s global credibility. Pakistan’s persistent violations, including enforced disappearances, misuse of blasphemy laws, military court trials, minority persecution, labour exploitation,.
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report alleging that a 16-year-old boy was illegally confined as an adult inmate in Kasna jail in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Budh Nagar district for more than two months before being shifted to a juvenile home. NHRC Takes Suo Motu.
