Pakistan

• Abduction 5
• Access to water 2
• Ahmadis 5
• Anti-terrorism law 5
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 11
• Armed forces / Military 7
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 16
• Asylum-seekers 5
• Baluchis 7
• Border controls 1
• Border crossers 1
• Child soldiers 2
• Children's rights 8
• Children-at-risk 5
• Christian 2
• Civil and political rights 3
• Civil war 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 3
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
• Corruption 1
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Criminal justice 5
• Death in custody 2
• Death penalty 19
• Deportation / Forcible return 1
• Disappeared persons 11
• Domestic violence 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 3
• Effective remedy 5
• Elections 7
• Embargo 1
• Emergency legislation 1
• Extrajudicial executions 13
• Foreign occupation 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 13
• Freedom of assembly and association 8
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 24
• Freedom of information 7
• Freedom of movement 1
• Freedom of religion 12
• Freedom of speech 7
• Gender discrimination 3
• Good governance 2
• Hazara 2
• Honour killings 3
• Human Rights Council 1
• Human rights activists 11
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 20
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 2
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• IDP camps 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Immigration Detention 4
• Impunity 13
• Independence of judiciary 7
• Internal armed conflict 9
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 4
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 4
• Juvenile justice system 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 5
• Livelihoods 1
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
• Migrant rights 1
• Migrants 1
• Military courts 3
• Military law 3
• Military operations 7
• Minorities 10
• Minority rights 1
• Muslim 6
• National security / Public order 2
• Non-state agents of persecution 3
• Opposition 6
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 4
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 5
• Persons with disabilities 1
• Police 5
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 5
• Political situation 10
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prison or detention conditions 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 8
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 4
• Public health 1
• Refoulement 3
• Refugee / Asylum law 3
• Refugee camps 1
• Refugee identity documents 2
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugees 16
• Registration 1
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 11
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 9
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 2
• Return conditions 6
• Returnees 6
• Right to education 5
• Right to employment 1
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 1
• Right to health 1
• Right to justice 2
• Right to leave 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
• Security forces 15
• Security situation 17
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 8
• Shia 6
• Single heads of household 1
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group persecution 1
• Sunni 1
• Terrorism 22
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• Women's rights 10
• Women-at-risk 1

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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