human rights

HR compliance  PAKISTAN has ratified seven out of the nine core UN human rights (HR) treaties. All these instruments require state parties to submit initial and […]

Protection of Women’s Rights in Pakistan – A Practitioner’s Perspective I was invited to speak briefly at a seminar organized by the Law and Politics Society, […]

A Balancing Act The US has a shoddy reputation regarding the treatment of civilians at the hands of its military overseas. While US military actions in […]

Algerian Djamel Ameziane, is seeking compensation from the U.S. government for the nearly 12 years he was held without charge as prisoner at the U.S. Navy base […]

Law Society To Hold a Programme To Raise Awareness In Lahore Non-government Organizations (NGOs) are working with the Law Society to introduce, “Law Awareness Week 2015”, […]

Protecting the Right to Adequate Housing The Supreme Court of Pakistan has recently restrained the Government authorities from demolishing and bulldozing the houses of poor slum […]

Team CTL recently attended a discussion on How To Combat Online Misogyny in Pakistan, organized by The Last Word bookshop in collaboration with Susan Benesch of The […]

Can Forced Labour of Immigrant Workers in the Middle East be Regarded as Slavery? When most people think of slavery, they instinctively think of colonialized Africa […]

Is Torture Justified? Presuming that a person has information of an imminent terrorist attack that will cause huge or mass destruction and exterminate human lives, has […]

Child Labor in Pakistan Child labor is the employment of children for work which results in harm to the child’s well being.[1]Not all kinds of work […]

To Hang or Not To Hang – That is NOT the Question Asia Bibi, a woman, a Christian woman, was sentenced to death approximately six years […]

Exercises in Brutality: Torture Laws in Pakistan, in Light of American Policy Failure   ‘It is far pleasanter to sit comfortably in the shade rubbing red pepper […]

Centuries have passed, countless books have been written, technology has surpassed barriers, innumerable studies have been carried out yet the perception of a woman as mere […]

The High Court in Pretoria prevented Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir from leaving South Africa unless an urgent hearing on his arrest application is heard.  He had […]

“My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.” Audre Lorde had it right when she said that women have been taught to […]