Press release HRCP underscores rights challenges for 2024 Islamabad, 1 January 2024. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is deeply concerned by the overall deterioration in human rights, which needs urgent attention as the new year unfolds. Foremost is the blatant manipulation of the electoral landscape in which one political party among others

Press release HRCP launches fact-finding report on rights violations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Peshawar, 27 December 2023. In its fact-finding report titled The Merger and its Discontents launched today, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern about the alleged mismanagement of development resources for the Newly Merged Districts (NMDs), the resurgence of militancy

Press release Government must hear out Baloch protestors, release jailed women Islamabad, 21 December 2023. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) strongly condemns the violent state crackdown on Baloch citizens who have led a long march from Turbat to Islamabad in protest against the alleged extrajudicial killing of Balach Baloch and others in

Press release HRCP disappointed by Supreme Court order on military courts Lahore, 15 December 2023. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) fears that the Supreme Court’s decision to suspend the operation of its earlier short order, which had declared the military trial of civilians ‘unconstitutional’, will result in delayed justice to those who

Press release HRCP calls for protection of labour rights, civil rights on Human Rights Day Karachi, 11 December 2023. Several hundred members of civil society gathered at a conference organized by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) yesterday to mark International Human Rights Day and call on the state to protect and uphold