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Tolerance

Swat Women Won’t Be ‘Duped’ by Militants This Time

Instead of giving the women what the TTP promised, they took away their right to life altogether. They were forced to give up jobs...

Inter Press Service - 31 October 2022

Democracy

Multi-Faith Team Urges Repeal of Blasphemy Laws – in the Name of Religious Freedom

A delegation of human rights and religious freedom advocates is visiting the United Nations this week to increase support among UN Member States for...

Inter Press Service - 20 September 2022

Accountability

UN Report Holds China Responsible for ‘Serious Human Rights Violations’ in Xinjiang; China Rebuts Strongly

The OHCHR report released on Wednesday points to “allegations of patterns of torture, or ill-treatment, including forced medical treatment and adverse conditions of detention”...

OWSA Contributor - 1 September 2022

Civil society

Ninety Years of a Full Life [Part – II]

In this second part, Naazir Mahmood recounts, through his father's eyes, the two tumultuous decades between 1960 and 1980, that revolve around the government's...

OWSA Contributor - 19 July 2022

Accountability

Bangladesh’s NHRC to Probe Attack on Hindus; Administration Negligence

The Bangladesh NHRC investigation into the riots in Lohagara, where Hindu homes and shops were attacked, will also explore negligence on the part of...

OWSA Staff - 18 July 2022

Bangladesh

India’s Bangladeshi Bogeyman

During the 2019 election campaign, then BJP president and now Home Minister, Amit Shah, described Bengali-speaking Muslims in border states as ‘termites’—invoking the same...

East Asia Forum East Asia Forum - 11 July 2022

Civil society

Diversity, Inclusion and the Young

The youth policies the governments in Pakistan and other countries of SouthAsia develop are normally full of cliches that regurgitate the same banal statements....

OWSA Contributor - 6 July 2022