Karachi’s Machar Colony perennially suffers in silence, but One Health can help
- 15-Sep-2024
What reeks of sewage and nurses scourge is, in fact, home to half a million dehumanized humans, but if that doesn’t make you shudder, the threats that poliovirus was picked up from its environmental sample, hep C is rampant, its residents' collective immunity is fatigued fighting onslaughts, and that this curse will spill over to rage on more equal citizens, should
North Korea accuses US of politicizing human rights issues
- 27-Apr-2024
North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of politicizing human rights in the East Asian country, denouncing what it called political provocation and conspiracy. Pyongyang will make stern and decisive choices to protect its sovereignty and safety in response to Washington using human rights as a tool for invasion and hostile, anti-North Korea behaviour, […]
HRCP calls govt to restore law and order in Karachi
- 08-Apr-2024
KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed concern and demanded immediate restoration of law and order to ensure the safety of the citizens in Karachi, ARY News reported on Monday. The HRCP spokesperson stated that the law and order situation in Karachi has deteriorated to a dangerous level, as thousands of street crimes […]
Usman Khawaja denied new ‘human rights’ attempt by ICC
- 24-Dec-2023
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has said no to Australian opener Usman Khawaja’s fresh gesture for the people of Palestine ahead of the Boxing Day Test against Pakistan. The match will start on December 26 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Khawaja, a Muslim, was stopped from wearing shoes emblazoned with the hand-written slogans “Freedom is […]
Authorities barred from taking Imaan Mazari outside Islamabad
- 30-Aug-2023
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) has barred the authorities from shifting human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari outside the federal capital, ARY News reported. As per details, the IHC judge Mian Gul Hassan Aurangzeb ordered Interior Secretary, IG Islamabad and FIA to not take Iman Mazari out of Islamabad. The court also directed the authorities to […]
US takes up HR, press freedom issues with Pakistan: State Dept
- 12-May-2023
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) State Department’s Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel has said that the US is closely monitoring the developments in Pakistan, adding that the issues of human rights and press freedom were taken up with Pakistan. Reacting to political developments in Pakistan, the principal deputy spokesperson of the US State Department said […]
Biden nominates North Korea human rights envoy, first since 2017
- 24-Jan-2023
The White House on Tuesday nominated a special envoy for human rights in North Korea, moving to fill a post that has been empty since 2017 amid debate over how rights issues fit with efforts to counter Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. President Joe Biden nominated Julie Turner, a long-time diplomat and current director of the […]
U.N. urges Musk to safeguard human rights at Twitter
- 06-Nov-2022
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, urging him to “ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter”. Twitter laid off half its workforce on Friday and tweets by the staff of the social media company said […]
UN chief chides Modi govt on human rights record
- 19-Oct-2022
UN chief Antonio Guterres chided India during a visit Wednesday over its human rights record, which critics say has regressed under Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since Modi came to power in 2014 in the Hindu-majority nation of 1.4 billion, campaigners say persecution and hate speech have accelerated against religious minorities, especially for India’s […]
Confusion or conspiracy? Pakistan’s trans rights act falls to dispute
- 04-Oct-2022
KARACHI: After religious parties claimed the trans rights act paves way for possibility of same-sex marriages, among the violations of other Islamic edicts, it has been challenged in, and thus has been termed anti-Sharia by the Federal Shariat Court Senator Mushtaq Ahmed of Jamat e Islami petitioned against the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act […]