Edit in Daily Mirror, Oct 28, 2023In March 2021 The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution giving UN Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet a mandate to collect and preserve information and evidence of war crimes committed during Sri Lanka’s nearly 30-year-long civil war, which ended in 2009.The Washington Post reported the Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam (LTTE), held more than 300,000 civilians ‘hostage’ to enforce a ‘strategic human buffer between themselves and the…
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Edit in The Nation, Sept 07, 2023Irfan Ghafoor Memon, a school principal of a private institution in Karachi was arrested for sexually harassing, blackmailing and threatening over 45 women under the pretext of giving them employment. This is just another incident amongst an alarming number of reports coming from within educational institutes, defying the perception that schools and universities are safe-zones where employees, and the students alike, are safe from such violations. The investigation officer…
by Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, Mar 6, 2023Amnesty International on Sunday asked the United Nations Human Right Council to create an independent fact-finding mechanism to investigate the violations and abuses committed by the caretaker regime in Afghanistan. To support the victims, the evidence against human rights violations must be gathered, and provided at the international level, according to Amnesty International. Amnesty International, in its statement, has highlighted killings, arbitrary detentions, and violations against ordinary…
report in EconomyNext online, March 4, 2023 at 3:30 pmPolice have asked the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka for guidelines on dealing with ever increasing protests and public demonstrations in a bid to address allegations of excesses and violations of personal freedoms. Police chief C. D. Wickramaratne in a seven-page letter to the Commission on Friday outlined four scenarios when police officers are required to deal with both peaceful crowds and violent mobs and…
report in TOLOnews, Mar 1, 2023 at 9:44 PMThree years have passed since the signing of the Doha agreement between the US and the Islamic Emirate, and neither Kabul nor Washington is pleased with the way the agreement has been implemented. Kabul said that the parts of this agreement that refer to the Islamic Emirate have been fully implemented, but Washington has not been bound by its obligations in this regard. “Their troops did not…
The seventh annual report of the Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) painted a depressing picture of what life is like for the people of the province. 738 cases of human rights violations pertaining to crimes like forced marriages, extremism, gender-based violence, honour killings, workplace harassment, torture and religious intolerance were reported–the key word here is ‘reported’. The number is likely to go up if we account for all the crimes that have been committed under…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Jan 24, 2023Washington has been reviewing its approach and engagement with the “Taliban in context of many of the human rights violations” and actions that “we have seen from the Taliban in recent weeks and in recent months,” a spokesman for the US Department of State said. US Department of State’s Spokesman, Ned Price said that the US is actively evaluating with allies and partners the appropriate next steps. The…