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Pakistan and Open Budget Survey 2012 by the IBP

October 17, 2013

In 2011 (from August to December 2011), the International Budget Partnership (IBP) conducted a comparative survey to measures and see the openness, transparency, participation and oversight of the budgets in 100 countries which includes Pakistan. In 2012, the IBP published … Read More

Amendments in the Anti-Terrorism Act are against human rights

October 13, 2013

The Institute for Social Justice (ISJ) is extremely displeased over the recent amendments in the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 1997, through an Ordinance in October 2013 promulgated by Mamnoon Hussain the President of Pakistan. Some of these amendments are serious blow … Read More

The ISJ’s Letter to the President EC for the UPR Recommendations, follow up with Pakistan

September 26, 2013

The ISJ’s letter to H.E. Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, for the follow up with the European Union Countries which recommended to Pakistan in the UPR (2012) for improving the state of human rights in Pakistan. … Read More

UN Secretary General is urged to intervene in Syrian issue

September 4, 2013

Islamabad: The Institute for Social Justice (ISJ) has demanded the UN Secretary General to intervene in the Syrian matter and otherwise it will be a history’s another big blunder that will bring very big human loss in the region. The … Read More

Pakistan has sidelined and ignored human rights

July 29, 2013

Pakistan is facing serious challenges in the arena of human rights which ranges from missing persons, extra-judicial killings, police torture, honor killings, hunger, malnutrition, extreme poverty, unemployment, child sexual abuse, murders of child domestic workers, bonded and forced labour, illiteracy, … Read More