PFUJ, HRCP, PBC term proposed media ordinance an attempt to impose ‘media martial law’ Islamabad, 28 May. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) have outrightly rejected the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) Ordinance 2021 that the federal government intends to

HRCP calls on international community to end Israeli impunity Lahore, 18 May. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) reiterates that the Israeli state’s continued brutal assault on the people of Gaza is in flagrant violation of international law and universal human rights standards. In the last week alone, over 200 civilians—including at least

HRCP condemns carnage in Kabul Lahore, 10 May. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) strongly condemns the brutal terrorist attack on a girls’ school in Kabul on Saturday, which cost over 60 lives—most of them, young students. The incident is a grim reminder of the carnage wrought during the APS attack in Peshawar, Pakistan,

Economic woes and curbs on dissent marred 2020 HRCP launches report on state of human rights Lahore, 3 May. The release of State of Human Rights in 2020, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)’s flagship annual report, needs to jolt both the state and government out of their complacency that a neoliberal, hidebound regime

I. A. Rehman: A titan of human rights Lahore, 12 April. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is devastated by the loss of its honorary spokesperson and former secretary-general I. A. Rehman, who passed away in Lahore. Mr Rehman served as HRCP’s director from 1990 to 2008, before being elected its secretary-general in