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' Pashtun Protection Movement ') is a social movement for Pashtun human rights based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. It was founded in May 2014 by eight students in Dera Ismail Khan .
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan data, just around 1,000 Hindu families fled to India in 2013. [179] In May 2014, a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani , revealed in the National Assembly of Pakistan that around 5,000 Hindus are migrating from Pakistan to India every year.
The human rights violations of the Ahmadiyya community has been systematic and state-sponsored. General Zia, the military dictator of Pakistan, went many steps further in 1984, when to gain the support of Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan, he promulgated the anti-Ahmadiyya Ordinance XX that added Sections 298-B and 298-C in Pakistan Criminal ...
The ministry is headed by Khalil Francis, the Minister for Human Rights, while A.D Khowaja serves as the Federal Secretary. The historically contentious issue of human rights in Pakistan received an added emphasis from the highest leadership of Pakistan when the ministry was chipped out of the Ministry of Law and Justice on November 3, 2008. [1 ...
Advocacy campaigns to raise public awareness of human rights through publications, workshops, public meetings and rallies. Focusing attention onto areas in which human rights have been denied or violated, by collecting, publishing and disseminating data. Organising special fact-finding missions to probe the more serious violations of rights.
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Out of these, 965 cases were investigated in which 940 were found to be untrue, accounting for 95.2%, leaving only 25 genuine allegations.' [37] However, according to Human Rights Watch, the military courts in India, in general, were proved to be incompetent to deal with cases of serious human rights abuses and were responsible in covering up ...
Violence against women in Pakistan, particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence, is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights in Pakistan. [18] [19] Women in Pakistan mainly encounter violence by being forced into marriage, through workplace sexual harassment, domestic violence and by honour killings. [19]