Press release Rising militancy and democratic backsliding mark 2024 HRCP launches annual report Islamabad, 30 April 2025. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)’s annual report, released earlier today, highlights a troubling decline in civic freedoms, deteriorating law and order, and a marked strain on federalism. State of Human Rights in 2024 notes that

Press release HRCP Kissan Convention demands land rights, climate justice Multan, 27 April 2025. At the Kissan Convention held earlier today by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, agricultural workers, farmers and rights activists from across South Punjab gathered to voice their urgent concerns around climate change, land rights, corporate farming, and the systemic

Press release HRCP report condemns scale and frequency of mob attacks against minorities Islamabad, 26 February 2025. A report released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) calls attention to continued mob-led assaults on religious minorities’ homes and sites of worship, the persistent desecration of Ahmadiyya graves and arbitrary detention of community members,

Press release Fulfilling the right to social security is about political will, not resources Islamabad, 20 February 2025. At a roundtable held earlier today, HRCP urged the state to fulfil the right to social security under Article 38 of the Constitution by protecting vulnerable and low-income workers against income insecurity in the form of

Press release HRCP calls for independent inquiry into PTI November protest Lahore, 3 February 2025. A fact-finding report released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has concluded that the PTI protest in Islamabad on 26 November 2024 led to loss of life allegedly among protesters, contrary to the federal government's claims. There