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…
Lahore (4 October 2022): The patterns of abuse committed against minority girls in the name of religion ought to end, and the government must criminalize forced faith conversions through protective legislation, including safeguards against child marriages, and violations of the age verification process, and regulation of faith conversions. This was emphasized by the human rights…
Anwar Kenneth was allegedly accused of committing blasphemy, and was arrested in September 2001 for an offense under section 295 C of the Pakistan Penal Code. On 18 July 2002, an additional session judge, Lahore awarded him the death penalty and a fine of 5,00,000 rupees, and he was sent to jail right after the…
Brussels, November 7th, 2023 – A momentous event hosted at the European Parliament by members of the European Parliament, Ajan Haga and Charlie Weimers, brought together lawyers, gender experts, human rights activists, and survivors. They expressed their deep concerns regarding the distressing issue of coerced faith conversion and sexual violence targeting minority women and girls…
Lahore (December 9, 2022 The government must undertake legal and administrative measures to strengthenthe rule of law for addressing human rights violations for countering impunity, and ensure fundamentalfreedoms for all without any distinction, and introduce an amendment to the Child Marriage Restraint Acts toput an end to child marriages, and pass a law to criminalize…
HumaYounus, a Christian girl who was kidnapped from her home in Karachi on October 10 last year, has become pregnant due to the incessant sexual violence perpetrated by her abductor Abdul Jabbar, reported ACT International. As per the report, she has been confined to the four walls of one room in the abductor’s house. Younus is not allowed to…
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…
Lahore, 22 July – Anwar Kenneth, a Christian man who has been on death row for over 22 years, has filed a final appeal against his death sentence in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. This appeal comes as a desperate bid to overturn the original conviction, which was based on charges of blasphemy under section…
It has been almost a year and a half since Shagufta’s arrest and this is the second Christmas for the children without their mother. In a letter written by shagufta to her children, she revealed that she has become very weak and her blood pressure does not remain stable, and her physical and mental condition…
(Brussels – August 14, 2023): The government must take tangible steps to improve religious freedom conditions and state of minorities’ rights in Pakistan, and the European Union must not extend Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Plus status for another four years unless Pakistan demonstrates progress on its human rights obligations, and make a commitment to…
