Diplomatic spat between India & Switzerland over ‘minority rights’
The current diplomatic spat between Switzerland and India centers on over India’s minority rights remarks by Switzerland at the UNHRC....
May 29, 2025
Pakistan must end crackdown on Baloch human rights defenders
27 May 2025 Respected Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, We, the undersigned five human rights organizations, strongly condemn the harassment and...
May 16, 2025
Dismantled democracy: HRCP flags 2024 marked by repression, violence, and impunity
HRCP recently released its annual State of Human Rights report, marking 2024 for growing instances of state repression of dissenting...
March 28, 2025
Will Trump use US religious freedom report to further pressure India into submission?
Already under pressure from the Trump administration, which has reportedly asked India—successfully, some would say—to remove high tariffs on American...
December 24, 2024
DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: The Lost Souls of Syria
MELBOURNE, 23 December, 2024: Syria has been hitting the news headlines since the fall from power of the 50 +...
June 3, 2024
Report finds ‘clear need’ for an Australian Human Rights Act. What difference would it make?
This week, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights reported on its Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. By majority, it recommended...
May 12, 2024
HRCP’s annual report marks 2023 as a year of economic hardships
ISLAMABAD May 8, 2024 : The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, released its annual...
April 20, 2024
Displaced from Bangladesh: Buddhist, Hindu groups without citizenship in Arunachal
By Sharma Lohit Buddhist Chakma and Hindu Hajongs were settled in the 1960s in parts of Changlang and Papum...
February 20, 2024
UN dismay at reported human rights violations of Palestinian women
GENEVA (19 February 2024) – UN experts* today expressed alarm over credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which...
October 28, 2023
Pak told to halt Afghan deportations to avoid human rights catastrophe
Pakistan’s plan to deport “undocumented” foreign nationals will disproportionately affect more than 1.4 million Afghans in the country, the UN...
