Karachi: The government must introduce legal and administrative safeguards to protect minorities against human rights violations, take serious steps to stop forced faith conversions, and prevent the misuse of blasphemy laws. These demands were made in the press statement to observe national minorities’ day.Nuzhat Shereen said that the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah envisioned…
Lahore (28 July 2022): The human rights groups have expressed their worry regarding the lack of legal and administrative safeguards to protect underage minority girls against forced conversions in Pakistan. They have called upon the government to take stern action against the perpetrators and their abettors for committing crimes involving forgery, sexual violence, child marriages,…
An International Ministerial Conference dedicated to promoting religious freedom, and driving forward international efforts to defend freedom of religion or belief for all, was held in London on July 5th and 6th. The event brought together experts and diplomats from across the globe who shared knowledge and discussed the strategies and actions to promote and…
Human rights groups are alarmed by the situation of the North Korean refugees including women who are extremely vulnerable to being trafficked into forced marriages or prostitution, and are subjected to forced abortions, and babies born to repatriated women are killed in North Korea. They appealed to the Chinese government to dissuade the forced expulsion…
Lahore (23 September 2022): The civil society groups have expressed their dismay over the miscarriage of justice as observed in the case of 13 years old girl victim of forced conversion and child marriage, Zaria Pervaiz. They expressed their disappointment over the lack of action against the oppressors and the non-recovery of a minor girl…
The civil society has welcomed the court for granting bail to theblasphemy accused Stephen Masih, who has been facing imprisonment in a fabricated casedespite being of an unsound mind. They demanded that all those who incite or engage inviolence in the name of religion based on allegations of blasphemy, as well as those who falselyaccuse…
A Christian adult, Rehmat Masih s/o Iqbal Masih, was implicated in a fabricated case of blasphemy on declining the offer to change his religion. He has been behind the bars for over 5 months now at a jail in Pakistan, for allegedly defiling and desecrating the pages of the Holy Quran. The Police threatened the…
Pakistan: The human rights groups have expressed their concerns over the rise in the incidents ofgender based violence and child abuse in the country, and the lack of action on the part of governmentinstitutions to protect girls and children against sexual violence. The participants of the consultativemeeting followed by protest demonstration demanded justice for the…
Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments must introduce, pass and enact comprehensive laws against forced conversions in conformity with international human rights standards without any further delay. This was demanded by the participants of a number of protest demonstrations under the aegis of the Voice for Justice (VFJ) held in various cities of Pakistan including; Karachi,…
The human rights groups have expressed deep concerns over the mob violence in the guise of blasphemy accusation, as observed in the lynching and killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager in Sialkot, Pakistan on December 3, 2021. They are deeply alarmed by the inhuman treatment of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, who was tortured to death…
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