Pakistan

• Abduction 6
• Access to procedures 1
• Ahmadis 3
• Anti-terrorism law 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 14
• Armed forces / Military 4
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 13
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 2
• Baluchis 1
• Children's rights 7
• Children-at-risk 3
• Christian 3
• Civil and political rights 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 2
• Constitutional law 1
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 2
• Criminal justice 4
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 48
• Deportation / Forcible return 5
• Disappeared persons 24
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 2
• Domestic violence 2
• Economic, social and cultural rights 3
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 4
• Elections 3
• Emergency legislation 1
• Extrajudicial executions 19
• Forced marriage 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 17
• Freedom of assembly and association 6
• Freedom of expression 24
• Freedom of information 10
• Freedom of movement 1
• Freedom of religion 13
• Freedom of speech 8
• Gender discrimination 2
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Good governance 2
• Habeas corpus 1
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Hazara 2
• Honour killings 5
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
• Human Rights Council 2
• Human rights activists 12
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 18
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 2
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• IDP camps 2
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 1
• Impunity 13
• Independence of judiciary 6
• Indigenous persons 1
• Internal armed conflict 9
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 7
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1
• International courts and tribunals 1
• Juvenile justice system 2
• Laws relating to religion 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
• Migrants 3
• Military courts 5
• Military operations 3
• Minorities 10
• Minority rights 2
• Muslim 3
• Non-refoulement 2
• Non-state agents of persecution 1
• Older persons 2
• Opposition 2
• Palestinian 1
• Peace agreements 1
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 3
• Persecution of family members 1
• Persons with disabilities 1
• Police 5
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 3
• Political situation 7
• Prison or detention conditions 5
• Property restitution 1
• Protection of camps 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 6
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 3
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Ratification 1
• Reception 2
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 2
• Refugee identity documents 1
• Refugees 8
• Registration 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 16
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 8
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 1
• Right to education 3
• Right to employment 1
• Right to health 2
• Right to justice 3
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 5
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 9
• Secondary movement 2
• Security forces 9
• Security situation 16
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 17
• Shia 3
• Spontaneous return 1
• State of emergency 4
• State protection 1
• Sunni 1
• Terrorism 9
• Threats / Intimidation 1
• Torture 5
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
• Uighur 2
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• War crimes 1
• Women's rights 8
• Women-at-risk 2

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• Amnesty International - Pakistan
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Associated Press of Pakistan
• BBC News - Special Report: Kashmir Flashpoint
• BBC Urdu
• Dawn
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Pakistan
• Government of Pakistan: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
• Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Pakistan
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Pakistan
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Pakistan
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Pakistan
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Kashmir
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Pakistan
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Pakistan
• Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
• National Accountability Bureau, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• New York Times - Pakistan News
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Pakistan
• Pakistan International Human Rights Organization (PIHRO)
• Pakistan Observer Online
• Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)
• Pakistaniat.com - All Things Pakistan
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - Pakistan
• ReliefWeb - Pakistan
• The Frontier Post
• Time Magazine - Asia Edition
• UNHCR - Pakistan
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Pakistan
• United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)
• United States Department of State - Pakistan
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Pakistan
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Pakistan