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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday asked the United Nations Human Rights Council and the international community to give up politically driven double standard on human rights, especially in Occupied Kashmir, and hold the abusers accountable for their actions instead of appeasing ...

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) launched its annual performance report 2020 at an interactive media engagement session held on Monday. The report highlighted significant initiatives taken to protect and promote the rights of women, children, people with disabilities, ...

The latest diplomatic kerfuffle involving the Land of the Pure relates to the release of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest report on gender disparity around the world in which Pakistan has been ranked second-to-last. The WEF Gender Gap report ...

KARACHI: A conference lauded the role of women in workers’ movement and regretted that women workers in Pakistan, especially home-based women workers, were still deprived of their due rights and privileges. The Home-based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF) arranged a discussion ...

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Human Rights (HR) has drafted nine laws related to the protection of children from abuse, the rights of minorities, protection against torture and improving legal aid and access to justice over the last three months. In ...