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

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

Press release HRCP joins call for reparations, demands environmental justice from the global community Lahore, 6 September 2022. In light of the devastating floods that have affected at least 30 million people, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) joins the call for immediate reparations from the global community, particularly from high-emitting countries that

Press release Civil society indispensable in current crisis Lahore, 2 September 2022. Amid the political, economic and climate crises enveloping Pakistan, a public meeting held by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has put forward civil society’s concerns and a draft charter of demands. An immediate concern is the devastation caused by the