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Subject: Human rights in Pakistan
Category: Reference, Education and News
Asked by: oliveoyl-ga
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Posted: 01 Jun 2003 12:50 PDT
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Question ID: 211613
Source for reports and articles on human rights in Pakistan
between 1990 and 1995
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Subject: Re: Human rights in Pakistan
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 01 Jun 2003 14:29 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello oliveoyl-ga,
 
Thank you for your question.

My search returned the following results for Human Rights reports and
articles pertaining to Pakistan for the years 1990-1995.


Country Reports on Human Rights - PAKISTAN
Practices for 1995
Released by the Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor
U.S. Department of State
http://www.usis.usemb.se/human/1995/southasia/pakistan.html


Human Rights Watch – Pakistan - 1993
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1994/WR94/Asia-08.htm#P348_127640


Human Rights Watch – Pakistan - 1994
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1995/WR95/ASIA-08.htm#P482_162907


Human Rights Watch – Pakistan - 1995
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/WR96/Asia-07.htm#P653_172099


CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY IN PAKISTAN
Human Rights Watch
July 1, 1995     40 page report

Here is a brief excerpt:

“Throughout Pakistan employers forcibly extract labor from adults and
children, restrict their freedom of movement, and deny them the right
to negotiate the terms of their employment. Employers coerce such
workers into servitude through physical abuse, forced confinement, and
debt-bondage. The government of Pakistan is complicit in these abuses,
both by the direct involvement of the police and through the state's
failure to protect the rights of bonded laborers. It rarely prosecutes
or punishes employers who hold workers in servitude, and workers who
contest their exploitation are often imprisoned under false charges.
We call on the government of Pakistan to comply with its own national
laws as well as with international human rights and labor laws
outlawing bonded labor, to ensure that all workers are allowed to
organize and be represented by unions, and to prosecute to the full
extent of the law employers who have held workers in bonded labor and
those who have physically or sexually abused bonded laborers.”
Human Rights Watch: Publications
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1995/Pakistan.htm



September 19, 1993
Vol.5 Number 13
 
“Persecuted Minorities and Writers in Pakistan
Government efforts to Islamicize Pakistan's civil and criminal law,
which began in earnest in the early 1980s, have dangerously undermined
fundamental rights of freedom of religion and expression, and have led
to serious abuses against the country's religious minorities. Several
hundred people have been arrested under these laws since 1984, and two
men, a Christian and a Muslim, have been sentenced to death for
blasphemy.”
Human Rights Watch: Publications
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/pakistan/



Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan 
June 21, 1992

"In "Double Jeopardy: Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan," released
today, Asia Watch and the Women's Rights Project, two divisions of the
New York-based Human Rights Watch, charge the government of Pakistan
with responsibility for an epidemic of unpunished police violence
against women. The 106-page report finds that more than 70 percent of
women in police custody are subjected to physical and sexual abuse by
law enforcement agents, yet not a single police official has been
subjected to criminal penalties for such abuse."
Source: Human Rights News
http://hrw.org/press/1992/06/pakistan-police.htm


Double Jeopardy: Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan (129 pages)
You may view the complete report here:
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1992/pakistan/


Articles about human rights in Pakistan from 1990 and 1991
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1340/Humanrights/reports/report_agency4.htm



Articles about human rights in Pakistan from 1992 and 1993 
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1340/Humanrights/reports/report_agency5.htm



Articles about human rights in Pakistan from 1994 and 1995 
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1340/Humanrights/reports/report_agency7.htm



Pakistan (November 1993)- Profile Series
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/ins/pakistan.pdf



From Amnesty International Online Library:

PAKISTAN
Human rights crisis in Karachi
Summary published February 1996 
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engASA330011996


Here is a valuable tool for searching about human rights.
The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library meta search engine
for searching multiple human rights sites. In addition they are links
to all relevant Human Rights sites.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/lawform.html



Search Criteria:

“Human Rights” Pakistan 1990 OR 1991 
“Human Rights” Pakistan 1992 OR 1993
“Human Rights” Pakistan 1994 OR 1995
“Human Rights” Pakistan articles OR reports


I hope this information helps you in your research. If anything is
unclear, or if a link does not function, please request clarification.


Best Regards,
Bobbie7-ga
oliveoyl-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $10.00
This answer was both extremely thorough and exactly on point.  None of
the sources cited were outside the scope of what I requested. 
Although I haven't yet tried to access each sight, the number of cites
assures me that I will find what I want.  Thank you very much.

Comments  
Subject: Re: Human rights in Pakistan
From: bobbie7-ga on 02 Jun 2003 08:11 PDT
 
Thank you for the five star rating and tip!
I am happy to have helped.
--Bobbie7

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