If you are a victim of systematic discrimination and exclusion from key sectors of society, publicly fuelled prejudices and vilification based on national myths, acts of vandalism and desecration, prohibition or disruption of religious ceremonies, threats and acts of violence,

And rightly so. Any citizen of Pakistan who demands his rights under the constitution must first affirm his loyalty to it. With each IED and suicide attack, or attempt thereof, terrorists make a clear statement: they have withdrawn their loyalty from the state and constitution under

Almost every girl and woman – regardless of age, social status or choice of attire – who has walked the streets or taken public transport in Cairo, has experienced some form of verbal or physical sexual harassment.This isn’t new. For years, Egyptian women’s rights activists and

In a bid to ensure free and fair elections and curb the use of money power, the Election Commission has disqualified as many as 2,171 candidates for failing to furnish details of expenditure incurred while contesting Parliamentary and Assembly polls. These candidates will face the bar

Until recently, and in spite of worldwide civil society campaigns to the contrary, businesses refuted that corporations should be held accountable for human rights abuses. Human rights, it was said, existed to protect individuals from governments. Businesses, as "non-state actors", didn`t

The Food Standards Agency has vowed the investigation into the horsemeat scandal will be "relentless" and promised the agency would get to the bottom of the matter after police raided two British meat companies.The FSA director of operations, Andrew Rhodes, said investigations would

On February 7, 2013, the Washington Supreme Court issued an important decision holding that companies cannot strip away consumers’ ability to sue them through the use of grossly one-sided arbitration clauses.Washington Supreme Court Issues Far-Reaching Unanimous Opinion Protecting

A team from  UK Department for International Development (DFID) led by  Melkamnesh Alemu, Nutrition Advisor  yesterday has visited child-focused social protection model on providing a “prevention and positive” pathway and piloting an “out-of-poverty-graduation model for the urban

The Indian government should improve protections for children from sexual abuse as part of broader reform efforts following the gang rape and murder of a student in New Delhi in December 2012, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released on February 07. Child sexual abuse is

Right to health and human rights is inextricably linked to each other. The basic concept of human rights is to promote and identify the human prerequisite and well being of the people and to ensure the achievement of those requisite for them. Modern concept of human rights is more

An Indian teenager accused of taking part in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi will be tried as a juvenile, and so face a maximum of three years in prison if convicted, a special panel has ruled.The ruling shocked the victim`s father as he watched the television

Punishment is a mode of controlling crimes & criminality and it treated as a basic objective of criminal justice. However, there are different form of punishment, as to example: capital punishment, deportation, corporal punishment ( i. e-flogging, branding, mutilation,  chaining etc.),

Torture perpetrated by the law enforcing agencies is common phenomena and widespread in around the globe. Every year a hundred thousand of people face torture severely by law and security personnel, resulting threat to the democracy. When a person is tortured severely, then that person