Press release HRCP has reservations about enforced disappearances bill Lahore, 24 October 2022. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expresses reservations concerning the recently passed Criminal Laws (Amend­ment) Bill 2022. While the amendment acknowledges the crime of enforced disappearance and defines this as the ‘unlawful or illegal deprivation of liberty by an agent

Press release HRCP releases report on attack on transgender persons in Peshawar Lahore, 16 October 2022. A fact-finding mission led by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) to investigate an attack on four transgender persons in Peshawar on 11 September 2022 has concluded that the attack was a result of a personal dispute—one of

Press release Capital punishment in Pakistan amounts to torture Lahore, 10 October 2022. On this year’s World Day against the Death Penalty, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) reiterates its stance against capital punishment, not only on the grounds that the state’s duty is to protect the right to life, but also that

Press release I. A. Rehman Research Grant for 2022 awarded to lawyer Usama Khawar Ghumman Lahore, 4 October 2022. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is pleased to announce that Usama Khawar Ghumman has been awarded the I. A. Rehman Research Grant for 2022. Mr Ghumman—a lawyer by profession—will study the occupational health and safety of labourers in stone-crushing factories in Punjab, particularly their vulnerability to silicosis (a

Press release Concrete action needed to eradicate enforced disappearances Lahore, 8 September 2022. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) welcomes the recent meeting between the families of forcibly disappeared persons and interior minister, Rana Sanaullah, law minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, and poverty alleviation minister, Shazia Marri, in Quetta. While this was a positive