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Human rights agenda

THE first 100 days of a first-time government are often tumultuous, strewn with tactical errors and gaffes, and hindered by inexperience. The opposition morphs into the mythical Argus, ready to…

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…

Rightsizing

Rightsizing

The tragedy of the commons is a term used in the social sciences to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own…

The Rights Of The Pakistani Child

The rights of the Pakistani child

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September this year is commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the ‘Convention on the Rights of the Child’ (CRC) adopted by UN on November…

Civil Society After Asma

Civil society after Asma

Throughout this week, our minds have been concentrated on Asma Jahangir. Those of us who passionately endorse the universal values of democracy and social justice are still in a state…

Rights As Luxuries

Rights as luxuries

We live in a state in which there exists no responsibility, no certainty and no accountability. If you are not part of the power elite and fall on the wrong…

Civilian Deaths

Civilian deaths

While campaigning for president in late 2015, Donald Trump promised a bloody escalation of the US-led war against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, vowing to “bomb the shit out…

Our Missing Rights

Our missing rights

Like ‘missing persons’, many human, civil, political and social rights too remain missing in our hybrid democracy. Despite the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 70 years ago…

Bureaucrats have rights too

THE government has started blaming the bureaucracy for obstructing its measures. Unless it secures a fair balance in the politician-bureaucrat relationship it will be able to neither achieve administrative efficiency…