Human Rights Post

ملک کا مستقبل ہمارے ووٹ سے وابستہ ہے۔ خدا خدا کرکے الیکشن کا وہ چاند ہماری ان گناہ گار آنکھوں کی زینت بن ہی چکا ہے جسے کچھ لوگ چھپانے اور کچھ نظر آنے کے بہانے ڈھونڈ رہے تھے اور ہر آئے دن یہی گماں ہوتا تھا کہ کہیں اس نکلے چاند کے آگے پھر کوئی بادل یا غیر یقینی ...

سیاستدانوں نے انتخابات میں ہمیشہ عام آدمی کے مسائل کو کیش کروایا ہے، لیکن انھیں حل نہیں کیا۔ ملک میں بارہویں عام انتخابات 8 فروری 2024 کو متوقع ہیں۔ تمام پارٹیوں کی انتخابی مہم جو جنوری کے آغاز تک ٹھنڈی نظر آرہی تھی اب جنوری کے آخری ہفتے میں اس میں بھی تیزی دکھائی دے رہی ہے اور صحیح معنوں ...

The November 2023 implosion of OpenAI—the creator of the viral artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT—has intensified debates over how AI should be governed. Just weeks before Sam Altman was fired and then quickly rehired as the company’s CEO, the White House had announced new safety standards for developers of generative AI, the technology on which ChatGPT is based. Discussions about ...

Tunisia experienced further regression in terms of human rights and the rule of law during 2023 in the absence of genuine checks and balances on President Kais Saied’s power, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024. The government has taken new steps to muzzle free speech, prosecute dissent, and crack down on migrants and asylum seekers. “Over ...

In 2023, civilians in Syria faced another year of grave abuses perpetuated by the Syrian government and other parties to the conflict as the country grappled with an acute economic crisis, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024. Across the country, Syrians are facing a severe humanitarian crisis, with over 90 percent living below the poverty line. ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosted the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in 2023 and used it to burnish its image despite pushing for fossil fuel expansion and maintaining a zero-tolerance policy toward dissent, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024. The UAE, one of the world’s largest oil producers and per capita greenhouse gas emitters, ...

Stop Curtailing Rights at Home; End Foreign Policy Double Standards The United Kingdom government’s policies and practices both severely eroded domestic human rights protections and undermined its efforts to promote human rights globally in 2023, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024. “The UK had another dismal year for human rights in 2023,” said Yasmine Ahmed, UK ...

Erdogan Re-elected as Rule of Law Crisis Deepens Politically motivated court decisions and signs of power struggles in the justice system following the re-election of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to up-end Türkiye’s rule of law framework during 2023, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024. In Türkiye’s centennial year, its media was subjected to censorship and ...

Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan from Pakistan, in Torkham, Afghanistan, November 3, 2023. (Top Right) Homes destroyed after airstrikes and shelling in Mung Lai Hkyet displacement camp in Laiza, Myanmar, October 10, 2023. (Bottom left) A relative of political violence victims during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 28, 2023. (Bottom right) A woman places a candle between pictures of ...

Global leaders have failed to take strong stands to protect human rights during 2023, a year of some of the worst crises and challenges in recent memory, with deadly consequences, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024. Governments should stop engaging in transactional diplomacy and do their utmost to uphold universal human rights principles. Renewed armed conflict ...

On January 10, a Myanmar military court closed to the public sentenced award-winning documentary filmmaker Shin Daewe to life in prison on trumped-up terrorism charges. Her conviction and harsh sentencing is the latest example of the Myanmar junta’s relentless persecution of the media. Police arrested Shin Daewe, 50, on October 15 after finding her with an aerial drone. Though drones ...

Release Information on Detained Gaza Workers Israeli authorities held thousands of workers from Gaza in incommunicado detention for several weeks following the October 7 attacks, subjecting at least some of them to inhumane and degrading conditions, Human Rights Watch said. Thousands more remain stranded in the occupied West Bank without valid legal status and vulnerable to arrest. Those detained after ...

Guterres Should Seek to Tackle Autonomous Weapons Systems Countries that approved the first-ever United Nations General Assembly resolution on “killer robots” should promote negotiations on a new international treaty to ban and regulate these weapons, Human Rights Watch said today. Autonomous weapons systems select and apply force to targets based on sensor processing rather than human inputs. On December 22, ...

ایران کی سکیورٹی فورسز نے پاکستان کی فضائی حدود کی خلاف ورزی کرتے ہوئے صوبہ بلوچستان کے ایک سرحدی گاو¿ں ’سبزکوہ‘ میں رہائشی علاقے کو میزائل حملے کا نشانہ بنایا ہے۔ پاکستانی حکام کے مطابق جس علاقے کو نشانہ بنایا گیا ہے وہ پنجگور شہر سے اندازاً 90 کلومیٹر دور اور ایران کے سرحد کے قریب واقع ہے۔ پاکستانی دفتر ...

پاکستان میں عام انتخابات کے انعقاد میں صرف 18 دن باقی رہ گئے ہیں لیکن ماضی کے برعکس اس مرتبہ ملک کے سڑکوں، چوراہوں پر جگہ جگہ سیاسی جماعتوں کے امیدواروں کے بینرز اور پوسٹرز کچھ کم لگے دکھائی دے رہے ہیں۔ پاکستان کے الیکٹرانک اور پرنٹ میڈیا پر بھی اگر نظر دوڑائی جائے تو یہاں بھی ان سیاسی جماعتوں ...