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Pakistan: Renewed Arrests, Detention and Harassment of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan Must Stop

Amnesty International urges Pakistan to abide by its obligations under international law.

January 8, 2025

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Pakistan: Flood Survivors in Sindh Province Suffer Disease and Food Insecurity Amid Government Inaction - New Testimony

Climate change is not a tentative threat; lives are being lost today to global inaction and inadequate humanitarian response.

October 31, 2024

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Geneva: UN Human Rights Committee to Review Pakistan’s Human Rights Records Amid ‘Rampant Rights Abuses’

Pakistan’s review comes at a crucial time for the country, as human rights violations and abuses remain rampant.

October 16, 2024

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Pakistan: Authorities Must Immediately Revoke Ban on Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement

Targeting activists and peaceful protesters is an affront on the rights to freedom of association and peaceful assembly.

October 8, 2024

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Pakistan: The New Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Act Threatens the Right to Protest

The Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Act 2024 is yet another attack on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly…

September 9, 2024

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Pakistan: Authorities Must Be Transparent About Internet Disruptions and Surveillance Tech

The opacity of the Pakistani authorities regarding the use of monitoring and surveillance technologies is an alarming concern.

August 26, 2024

Bangladeshi volunteer sprays disinfectant inside vehicles on the street during a government-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 28, 2020. (Photo by Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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As COVID-19 spreads in South Asia, fears rise for people at higher risk

As cases of COVID-19 escalate in South Asia, one of the world’s poorest and most populous regions, Amnesty International calls…

March 26, 2020

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Generation Z Ranks Climate Change Highest as Vital Issue of our Time in Amnesty International Survey

Climate change leads as one of the most important issues facing the world, according to a major new survey of…

December 9, 2019

HAMBURG, GERMANY - MARCH 01: Teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg demonstrates with high school students against global warming at a Fridays for Future demonstration on March 01, 2019 in Hamburg, Germany. Fridays for Future is an international movement of students who, instead of attending their classes, take part in demonstrations demanding for action against climate change. The series of demonstrations began when Thunberg staged such a protest outside the Swedish parliament building. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

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Climate activists Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement honored with top Amnesty International award

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement of school-children have been honored with Amnesty International’s Ambassador…

June 7, 2019

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Trump Administration Makes Shameful Decision to Shroud Civilian Casualties in Secrecy

Reacting to news that the Trump administration has revoked a part of an Obama executive order requiring reporting on civilian casualties, Daphne Eviatar,…

March 6, 2019

Pakistani Christians attend a Christmas Day service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Karachi on December 25, 2018. (Photo by RIZWAN TABASSUM / AFP) (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)

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Asia Bibi must finally get her freedom in Pakistan

Responding to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold its ruling, again acquitting Asia Bibi of blasphemy charges and ordering her…

January 29, 2019

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Pakistan: Historic rights advances for tribal areas and transgender people

Pakistan has secured historic advances for the rights of people in the tribal areas along the Afghan border with the…

May 25, 2018