The United States has finally given up. The Joe Biden administration has decided to withdraw from the 20-year-old war and human rights abuses. The US marines have finally started to withdraw from Afghanistan and will be completed in September 2021. From 9/11 until today, there has been an unending series of atrocities in the name …
Kauser, a resident of Rawalpindi, Chour-Harpal, is in her forties. It has been twenty years since she married Asif Hameed. Asif, who had always enjoyed working as a tailor, worked as an expert in tailoring coats and pants at “Amir and Son Enterprises”, a shop located on Kashmir Road in Rawalpindi. Despite their financial situation, …
My Story of Struggle: a case of enforced disappearance Read More »
“We have had some victories and many setbacks on our journey. Since the beginning of our protests, several representatives of the Pakistani state have admitted that security agencies are responsible for enforced disappearances. These admissions led to the establishment of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in 2011. The commission, however, has failed to …
137 enforced disappeared people in Balochistan have returned home, what about the rest? Read More »
Press Release 20/03/21 Islamabad: Defence of Human Rights Pakistan organized a national consultative summit on the issue of enforced disappearances, the aim of which was to chalk out a strategy to end enforced disappearances in Pakistan. The summit provided an opportunity to evaluate and refine commitments and pledges from key stakeholders. The summit was moderated …
National Consultative Summit on the Issue of Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan Read More »
Press Release International Women’s Day is a global day observed on 8th March to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic, or political; while also making a call to action for strengthening gender equality and accelerating women’s empowerment. Since those early years, …
