As humanity bubbled in prison
“THEY killed Stan Swamy.” Fellow journalist John Dayal’s Facebook message startled me. The 84-year-old Jesuit priest was put on the ventilator two days ago after weeks of fighting Covid at…
Human rights in 2020
We continued to feel intense suffocation in Pakistan throughout 2020. The state of human rights, which has consistently remained morbid for the past few years, definitely did not improve this…
Inclusive humanitarian work
THE underlying ethos behind humanitarian work is embedded in dignity, inclusion and equality. In the discourse pertaining to development, the word ‘inclusion’ is gaining traction, particularly in the Global South.…
Human rights priorities
ON Monday, when the nations of the world celebrate the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Pakistan government too will be expected to…
Human rights obligations
IN addition to the domestic pressures for expeditious completion of its national human rights agenda, the state of Pakistan has to ensure that it keeps fulfilling on time the pledges…
No room for rights
Human rights can be defined as the unchallengeable rights of those who may not otherwise be equal but are personally autonomous and have relations. Human rights can be traced back…
The bill of no rights
Israel’s parliament – the Knesset – recently passed a new law pertaining to the national status of the State of Israel. Under the new ordinance, titled the ‘Basic Law: Israel…
India’s unchecked human rights crimes
At his weekly media briefing, the Foreign Office spokesman drew attention to the worsening human rights situation in occupied Kashmir as well as in various parts of India. Giving some…
Human solidarity
Nobody argues any more about what is happening in Myanmar. The United Nations, international human rights organisations and world capitals all agree that the war being waged on the Rohingya…
Protecting child rights in Sindh
Pakistan is one of those unfortunate countries where hundreds of thousands of children under the age of five years die each year. Only those of our children who are lucky…
