Press release HRCP conference calls for constitutional amendment to protect local governments Islamabad, 23 November 2022. A national conference held by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in partnership with the Friedrich Naumman Foundation for Freedom (FNF), has called for a constitutional amendment to protect the form and tenure of local governments and to ensure that fiscal decentralisation enables local bodies to

Press release HRCP dissatisfied with court ruling in Perween Rehman case Lahore, 21 November 2022. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expresses its dissatisfaction over the acquittal of all five persons accused of the murder of Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) director Perween Rehman. Given the gravity of the crime and the substantial evidence

Press release HRCP calls on state to hasten rehabilitation of flood-affected Lahore, 30 October 2022. On concluding its 36th Annual General Meeting (AGM), the general body of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called on the federal and provincial governments to accelerate their efforts to rehabilitate the thousands of people who have lost their homes

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