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GENEVA (11 April 2023) – UN human rights experts* today hailed a decision by the Malaysian parliament to revoke the country’s mandatory death penalty for many serious crimes, a decision that could potentially spare the lives of 1300 prisoners on death ...

During South Korea’s fourth cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on January 26, 2023, 31 countries made recommendations concerning the abolition of the death penalty and/or the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) commends Zambia and President Hakainde Hichilema for passing Penal Code (Amendment) Bill Number 25 of 2022 (the Bill), which formally eradicated the death penalty in the country...

UN member states complete review of Islamabad’s fourth periodic report on human rights

UN member states complete review of Islamabad’s fourth periodic report on human rights.

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Pakistan has received 340 recommendations from UN member states on its fourth periodic report on the human rights situation in the country, and the government

ISLAMABAD: As the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council takes up Pakistan’s human rights record at its meeting in Geneva on Jan 30 (today), a few countries, including the United States, have raised specific questions in respect of human rights issues in the country. Pakistan is one of

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US, a few other countries raise specific questions.