Human Rights

News Desk United Nations: For the first time in 20 years, child labour is on the rise. Some 160 million children work to earn a living globally instead of going to school, said International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director General…

News Desk United Nations: Deeply embedded gender bias that pervades family court systems across the world is placing women and children in situations of immense suffering and violence, said a United Nations report. “The tendency of…

APP Peshawar: Unrestrained miscreants burned down the historic Radio Pakistan building in the provincial capital on May 10 in their fervour for destroying both private and public property, depriving millions of listeners of the rare…

News Desk Islamabad: As many as 771 cases of violence against women in Sindh while 142 cases of violence against children were reported during the first four months of 2023, according to a report released by Sustainable Social…

News Desk Peshawar: Regional Police Officer (RPO) Mardan Muhammad Suleman suspended two police constables on Tuesday after their video of manhandling Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) female beneficiaries at the BISPoffice in…

Farooq Mahsud South Waziristan: A region that for long has battled against terrorism and security issues is now facing a new set of obstacles in its path to progress. The absence of the Internet and mobile phone services has not only…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: They have died in hundreds and few have survived as the doomed boat stayed stranded for hours with no help on hand, and rightly so; if the help had arrived, the entire plot would have been exposed, with…

News Desk ISLAMABAD: The Alliance for Diversity and Pluralism in Media (ADPM) urged the media to report on religious minorities with sensitivity following Justice Jillani's judgement. The ADPM also urged the national and local news…

News Desk Peshawar: The minorities must be allowed to elect their representatives for national and provincial assemblies directly through general elections, and the counting of all the minorities’ population in the digital census of 2023…

News Desk Islamabad: At least 10 passengers were killed on the spot and several others injured when a passenger bus hit a pillar on the elevated road after the brakes of the bus failed near Kallar Kahar on Saturday afternoon. Rescue…