South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses concern over the federal government’s decision to issue licenses for deep-sea fishing trawlers in Pakistan waters. Deep-sea fishing licensing policy has been a long drawn…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders vehemently condemns the murder of Tahir Ahmad, an Ahmadi man accused of blasphemy, in a courtroom in Peshawar, Pakistan on 29 July 2020. Ahmad, reportedly a…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, condemns the use of live ammunition by the Pakistan army against activists of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in North Waziristan. SAHR has learnt that the…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, is deeply concerned of the plight of Indian and Pakistani fishermen who are arrested for trespassing the territorial waters, subjected to prolonged detention and in some…
South Asians for Human Rights, a regional network of human rights defenders, express its condolences to the families of Pakistani coal mine workers who were killed from a methane gas explosion. The tragedy, which occurred less than a week…
South Asians for Human Rights ( SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, is deeply saddened at the passing away of Asma Jahangir. Asma was a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, a founding member of…
South Asians for Human Rights, a regional network of human rights defenders, is deeply concerned by the lack of progress in official investigations into the disappearance of Pakistani rights activist Raza Mahmood Khan, who was reported missing two months…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses grave concern at reports of the alleged beheading of two Indian soldiers in the Line of Control in the Kashmir region by the Border Action Team…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional human rights organization, is deeply concerned about the tense situation arisen between Afghanistan and Pakistan owing to Pakistan’s instant reaction to the deadly terror attack in Lahore and the horrendous massacre…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) organised a dialogue among civil society representatives of Afghanistan, India and Pakistan on 28 and 29 November 2016 in Kabul, Afghanistan. It was hosted by the Afghan Women’s Education Center (AWEC). The main purpose…