HRCP urges world community to halt Israeli assaults on Gaz
Peshawar
May 19, 2021
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has reiterated that the Israeli state’s continued brutal assault on the people of Gaza is in flagrant violation of international law and universal human rights standards.
In the last week alone, over 200 civilians-including at least 60 children-have been killed.
A press statement issued by HRCP on Tuesday said, “That the Israeli offensive has targeted not only civilians but also children, health workers and the media, indicates a level of shocking impunity, which the wider international community ignores at its peril.
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Daily Times
May 18, 2021
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) says that the Israeli state’s continued brutal assault on the people of Gaza is in flagrant violation of international law and universal human rights standards. In the last week alone, over 200 civilians including at least 60 children have been killed.
In a press release, the HRCP stated: “That the Israeli offensive has targeted not only civilians but also children, health workers, and the media indicates a level of shocking impunity, which the wider international community ignores at its peril. It is simply not enough to continue to say that a state has the right to ‘defend’ itself in the face of such a gross imbalance of power, compounded by decades of violent settler colonialism and state-sponsored crimes against a beleaguered people.
The bombing of a Kabul school is a sign of the coming violence against the Hazaras in Afghanistan
With foreign troops leaving Kabul, there are fears for the safety of the ethnic group. 2 hours ago According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, nearly 1,000 Hazaras were killed in sectarian violence from 2009 to 2014. | Asif Hassan / AFP
In Afghanistan, explosions in western Kabul’s Sayed-ul-Shuhada high school killed over 60 people and left more than 150 injured last week. Most of the victims were young girls, aged 13 years to 18 years, who were attending the afternoon shift of the school that catered exclusively to the Shia Hazara community in Afghanistan.
Pak s blasphemy laws hampering religious freedom: US report
ANI
13 May 2021, 07:55 GMT+10
Washington [US], May 13 (ANI): The 2020 report International Religious Freedom released by the United States on Wednesday (local time) has highlighted a downward spiral of religious expression in Pakistan, most notably in the form of blasphemy laws, punishment for which ranges up to the death penalty.
Citing civil society reports, the IRF report mentioned that there were many individuals imprisoned on blasphemy charges, at least 35 of whom had received death sentences, as compared with 82 individuals imprisoned on blasphemy charges and 29 who received death sentences in 2019.
According to the Center for Social Justice, a national nongovernmental organisation (NGO), at least 199 individuals were accused of blasphemy offenses, a significant increase over 2019 and the highest number of blasphemy cases in a single year in the country s history. The accused were mostly Shia (70 per cent of cases
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