Legislative Developments in Compliance with UNCRC on November 15, 2024In August 2023, Pakistan submitted its consolidated sixth and seventh periodic reports to the UNCRC Committee for examination of its progress on the implementation of UNCRC in the country. The sixth and seventh periodic reports were due in 2016 and 2021 respectively. However, these reports were not submitted in time to the Committee, so the […]
Taxpayers’ Rights and Obligations on September 11, 2024Tax season starts in Pakistan from July to September of every year, in which taxpayers fulfill their national obligation of voluntarily filing their annual income tax returns and statements of assets and liabilities, declaring their net annual income and wealth on FBR portal, to be assessed by FBR in the following assessment year. By fulfilling […]
Modern Slavery on May 26, 2024Bonded labour is the main form of forced or compelled labour. It is also attributed as the worst form of labour, trafficking, and modern slavery. In the bonded labour system, the employer/owner/landlord/trafficker/creditor gives some amount of money or other monetary benefits in the form of loan/debt/advance/push to a labourer/debtor and then exploits that labourer/debtor and […]
Gender-Based Violence on February 17, 2024Gender-based violence (GBV) means violence committed against any person on basis of his/her gender or perceived gender. Any man, woman, child, older, transgender, or disabled person who belongs to any age, race, colour, language, religion, socio-economic, culture, nation, ethnic or territorial background can become the target of GBV. The main forms of GBV are physical, […]
Give Credit Where Due on February 2, 2024On 24 January 2024, the National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) successfully launched the policy brief on child trafficking in Pakistan in a ceremony held at Marriott Hotel Islamabad, in which state-of-the-art legislative / policy framework on the issue of child trafficking in Pakistan including recommendations for its effective improvement / implementation were […]
One-Stop Centers on January 9, 2024One-Stop Centers (OSC) both in private and public spaces have been established in some countries of the world to provide integrated multi-disciplinary free-of-cost support/assistance under one roof to women, girls including children affected by violence and abuse. OSC facilitate for provision of immediate emergency and non-emergency access to a range of services including medical, legal, […]
Child Housemaid Torture on August 11, 2023On 28 December 2016, the child domestic labour case ‘Tayyaba Torture Case’ received media attention when the pictures of 10 years old wounded housemaid went viral on social and electronic media, who was brutally tortured and abandoned in Islamabad by a convict Maheen Zafar and her husband co-convict Raja Khurram Ali khan former additional district […]
Child Trafficking in Pakistan on May 30, 2023Trafficking in Children is a form of modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to exploit children for some type of forced labour/services or commercial sex work. A victim of child trafficking does not need to be transported from one location to another for the offence of trafficking to occur. Movement […]
Non-ratification of UNCRC by most powerful country on March 10, 2021The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children, regardless of their or their parents’ or legal guardian’s age, sex, gender, language, religion, ethnic, race, sexual […]
Juveniles’ executions on July 25, 2020Execution of mankind is a strict violation of human dignity and this violation reaches at its extreme, when a juvenile below the age of 18 years is handed down a death sentence or executed. The constitution of Pakistan protects the human rights of its citizens. Article 9 of the Constitution has assured the security of […]