Human rights on the agenda
There are hundreds of political parties in Pakistan and dozens of them are active, but not many have human rights as a major agenda point on their manifestos. It should…
Human rights agenda
Throughout Pakistan’s turbulent political history, no prime minister has been able to perform his/her duties for a full term. The recurring political crises within Pakistan withholds the state from initiating…
Transgender rights are human rights
Fiddling with the words of Virginia Woolf, I take the liberty to reiterate that the history of people’s resistance to trans people’s emancipation is more interesting than the story of…
Housing — a fundamental human right
Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the right to housing as part of the right to an adequate standard of living. Article 11(1) of the International…
Human rights in 2021
The year 2021 began with families of slain Hazara miners refusing to bury their loved ones unless PM Imran Khan visited them. Their peaceful protest was called an act of…
Biden plans shift in arms policy to add weight to human rights concerns
US President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing an overhaul of arms export policy to increase the emphasis on human rights, a departure from former President Donald Trump’s prioritization of economic…
Biden poised to pivot US arms deals toward security, human rights
Ninety minutes before President Joe Biden took office on January 20th, the United States signed a $23 billion dollar deal to sell F-35 jets, drones and advanced missiles to the…
Facebook confronts human rights dilemma on political speech
Facebook Inc oversight board’s extension of former US President Donald Trump’s banishment from the social network failed to settle how it will balance political leaders’ freedom of speech and its…
Human rights framework
International Human Rights Day is December 10. On that day in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was promulgated as the first in a series of covenants, treaties,…
A day for human rights
Last month my column ‘Human Rights 101’ published on these pages on Nov 24, elicited interesting responses from some of the readers, especially younger ones. They wanted to know some…
