Human rights
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,…
Advancing children’s rights
Thirty-two years ago, on November 20, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This historic convention granted civil, political, economic, social and cultural…
Human rights 101
Whenever any discussions on human rights take place, some bureaucrats and securocrats don’t like it. To them, such discussions are superfluous and present Pakistan in a negative light. There appears…
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…
Electoral human trafficking
Human trafficking is a heinous crime. This is buying and selling of humans for illicit purposes of slavery or prostitution, etc. The United Nations has classified it as serious violation…
Rights are global
STATES have a brazenly inconsistent behaviour whenever their conduct on human rights towards their own citizens is criticised by foreigners especially by foreign governments or their human rights activists. It…
Protectors of people’s rights
IT is difficult to imagine Pakistan without I.A. Rehman, someone for whom the word ‘irreplaceable’ feels inadequate. Throughout the country’s existence, he touched so many lives through his many contributions.…
Inhuman terrorists’ rights
AGAINST the backdrop of official silence, unnamed sources are leaking like a sieve and, with each emerging detail, it is becoming clearer that the prophets of doom and gloom and…
Refugees’ rights
HISTORICALLY, global health crises have disproportionately impacted vulnerable groups in any population. Such groups, including women, children, and daily-wage workers, are often poorly positioned to utilise the resources the government…
Human rights focus
HUMAN rights may be back on the global agenda. In his first foreign policy speech as president, Joe Biden restored the US emphasis on human rights and diplomacy, referring to…
