180SharesHuman Rights Minister Dr. Shireen Mazari’s effort to highlight the plight of Kashmiris in a high-level video segment at the 46th Human Rights Council must be applauded. In her video statement, she called out the international community for turning a blind eye towards the human rights violations in Kashmir, and for their failure to address […]
996SharesHuman Rights Minister Shireen Mazari has said that individuals accused of sexual harassment should not be given awards until their cases are concluded in the courts. She expressed these views while addressing a conference at the President House on Wednesday. “I want to tell President Arif Alvi: We as a state should disown individuals suspected […]
In Handyside v. the United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) reaffirmed that the right to freedom of expression, as safeguarded under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), protects speech that may “offend, shock or disturb”. Unfortunately, it appears that within the French context, this right to “offend, shock […]