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405 women killed in Pakistan last year in the name of ‘honour’

Rights groups demand urgent action as conviction rate remains below 1%

Published 07 Aug, 2025 10:38am

Pakistan

HRCP report underscores lack of evidence in Punjab College rape allegations

Mission emphasizes upon concerns related to harassment, sexual violence on campus

Published 02 Nov, 2024 09:44am

Pakistan

HRCP chairperson released after brief detention: report

Organisation says such measure is intimidation tactic designed to stifle voice of human rights defenders

Published 25 Jul, 2024 06:09pm

Pakistan

HRCP demands enforcement of safety protocols for colliers

Mission members found around 436 registered coal mines in KP’s Darra Adam Khel

Published 26 Mar, 2024 08:14pm

Pakistan

HRCP concerned by SC’s decision to strip PTI of bat symbol

Denying a political party its electoral symbol effectively disenfranchises its voters, says commission

Published 15 Jan, 2024 07:13pm

Pakistan

HRCP, Amensty call for release of detained Baloch protestors

Islamabad police say all roads of federal capital are open for traffic

Published 21 Dec, 2023 02:39pm

Pakistan

HRCP’s deplores ‘damage’ to democracy; calls for economic justice

Claims establishment’s ‘incursions’ into civic and political spaces have damaged prospect of fair elections

Updated 12 Nov, 2023 07:40pm

Pakistan

Former bonded labour Veeru Kohli passes away

She spent almost 25 years working tirelessly to free bonded labourers in Sindh, says HRCP

Published 31 Oct, 2023 08:44pm

Pakistan

HRCP appalled by police preventing discussion on Afghan refugees eviction

Afrasiab Khattak claims police kept speakers/hall under siege for two hours in Islamabad

Published 25 Oct, 2023 01:43am

Pakistan

Kakar draws flak from HRCP after minus Imran Khan comment

Commission says caretaker govt must end 'pre-poll political victimisation'

Updated 26 Sep, 2023 12:17am

Pakistan

HRCP wants uncertainty around elections to end immediately

Commission says it was concerned by scope for manipulating electoral process by institutions

Updated 03 Sep, 2023 08:08pm

Pakistan

HRCP expresses alarm at disappearance of 2 Baloch men

HRCP calls for their release and protection of their family

Published 15 Aug, 2023 11:44pm

Pakistan

HRCP sounds alarm over armed sectarian conflict in Kurram

HRCP says 9 people have been killed in the fighting

Published 11 Jul, 2023 04:13pm

Pakistan

HRCP concerned over decision to declare Ahmed Noorani ‘proclaimed offender’

Says action compromises Noorani’s right to freedom of expression

Published 10 Jun, 2023 07:20pm

Pakistan

Democracy being reverse-engineered: HRCP

Civilian supremacy is the real casualty: HRCP said

Published 31 May, 2023 06:19pm

Pakistan

Spanish police arrest father of two women killed in Pakistan

The girls were strangled in 2022

Updated 23 Feb, 2023 10:47am

Pakistan

HRCP mission finds upsurge in rights violations against Ahmadis

The way the administration has handled the matter has only fostered growing hostility toward the Ahmadiyya community

Updated 15 Feb, 2023 08:45pm

Pakistan

HRCP launches fact-finding report on rights violations in Balochistan’s coal mines

Underscores the alarming frequency of mining-related deaths and injuries in the region

Published 24 Nov, 2022 06:27pm

Pakistan

Prominent professor, rights activist Dr Mehdi Hasan passes away

Former chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, professor, leftist, journalist and well respected...

Published 23 Feb, 2022 05:44pm

Pakistan

PPP to challenge PECA amendments in courts

Opposition, HRCP, journalist fraternity condemn ordinance to regulate social media

Published 21 Feb, 2022 04:32pm

HRCP expresses alarm over fresh wave of "enforced disappearance" in Balochistan

A case of missing bloggers and journalists was ongoing in the IHC where Mudassar Naru, a missing person since 2018, case was being discussed

Updated 28 Feb, 2022 01:09pm

Pakistan

HRCP condemns govt for "U-turn" after anti-forced conversion bill rejected

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in a press statement on Friday expressed its solidarity with lawmakers from...

Published 15 Oct, 2021 12:20pm