Lahore, 12th February 2018: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is devastated and shocked at the unexpected and sudden passing away of its co-founder Asma Jahangir: exemplary lawyer, human rights icon, pro-democracy champion, friend and mentor par excellence, and a brave comrade of the poor and the disadvantaged. She died yesterday due to cardiac arrest. The
Lahore, February 9: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is outraged that the case of Junaid Hafeez, who was arrested in March 2013 after a student group accused him of blasphemy, has been transferred to yet another new judge and his right to a fair trial has been further undermined. It is feared that
Lahore, 6th February 2018: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) calls upon the federal government to take notice of the ongoing protest by the people of Waziristan in Islamabad. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Commission said: “HRCP is dismayed at the apathy of the federal government towards the people of Waziristan, hundreds of
Lahore, 23 January 2018: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expresses grief and anger at the unchecked shooting of a college principal by a student yesterday under the suspicion of blasphemy in theShabqadar District of Charsadda. The shocking incident occurred after the student had allegedly been reprimanded over his absence from college. The student reportedly had
Lahore, 20th January 2018: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has been shocked and grieved at the passing on of Munnu Bhai: poet, dramatist, columnist par excellence and an ardent friend of the poor and the disadvantaged. His contribution to the democratic dispensation in Pakistan is matchless, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s when
Friday, 12th January 2018: The brutal rape and murder of a seven-year old girl in Kasur, consequent slack in the police’s investigation and ensuing violence against demonstrators seeking justice for the child is a deplorable situation for the state authorities to be in. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said in a statement: “subsequent
Lahore, December 9, 2017: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is perturbed by the rapidly eroding space for freedom of expression in the country. The right to know, dissent and free expression of ideas is essential to any democratic setup. Without the free flow of information and ideas there can be no informed discourse
Lahore, 5th December 2017: With the International Day for Persons with Disabilities observed worldwide on 3rd December 2017, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) laments that despite the Pakistani government being a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) since 2008, little has been done to promote the rights
Lahore, November 27: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has slammed the recent spate of enforced disappearances involving Baloch students and activists in Karachi. HRCP has demanded that these student activists and human rights defenders be accorded due process if they are suspected of any crime, or be immediately released by the security forces that have
Lahore, November 21, 2017: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is alarmed over a recent incident where a peace committee in Wana, South Waziristan, has issued a ban on virtually all socio-cultural activities in the region, including preventing women’s movement outside their homes unless they are with a mahram and prohibiting locals from