Pakistan

Countries and organizations address the reports presented at the Human Rights Council

Read the statements of the 32 countries and 6 organizations that addressed the reports’ presentation.

Life on margins: Slum dwellers for resettlement plan before eviction

Resolving to resist any move to evict them, residents of various katchi abadis in the capital held a demonstration in Sector H-11 katchi abadi on Sunday afternoon, said a press release.

Pakistan’s statement (on behalf of the OIC) on the security of tenure report

Read Pakistan’s statement (on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation) regarding the presentation given by the Special Rapporteur about her thematic and mission reports on March 4th, during the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council.

In Pakistan 300 citizens living in dilapidated buildings get eviction notices

July 7, 2012 Terming almost 300 dilapidated buildings in the city vulnerable to any mishap during the ongoing monsoon season, the Rawal Town Municipal Administration (RTMA) on Saturday served eviction notices on their residents. A senior RTMA official told Dawn on Saturday that it was a normal practice that each year the civic body served […]

Pakistan’s statement on the report “Women and Adequate Housing”

On March 6th, 2012, the UN special rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, presented at the 19th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, the reports concerning her 2011 missions to Argentina and Algeria, as well as her thematic report on women and their right to adequate housing. After […]

Communications Report (2007)

This report has the summary of communications sent and replies received from following Governments: Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Guinea Equatorial, India, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russian Federation, The Sudan, Turkey, Zimbabwe, and other actors like United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. In the context of his mandate, the […]