New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) While Pakistan has enacted important legal protections for women in the workplace, the real challenge is enforcing those laws, with many organisations failing to establish functional inquiry committees or treating them as formalities, a new report has said.At an event organised by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) on occasion of International Women’s Day, participants highlighted that fear of retaliation, social stigma and lack of trust …
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Islamabad, Feb 4 (IANS) Christian community leaders in Pakistan’s Faisalabad have voiced their concern over what they termed as ‘discriminatory policing’ and stereotyping under the ongoing anti-drug drive in Punjab province. They alleged that members of the minority community have been facing raids and criminal cases falsely linking them to narcotics over the past two months, local media reported. While addressing a press conference at the Faisalabad Press Club, Minority Rights Movement (MRM) ch…
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Thursday a batch of petitions challenging the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026. As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi will take up the matter for hearing on January 29. Earlier in the day, CJI Surya Kant had agreed to list for hearing a plea challenging the sa…
New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) A writ petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026, alleging that it institutionalises discrimination by denying grievance redressal mechanisms to persons belonging to non-SC/ST/OBC categories.The petitioner, advocate Vineet Jindal, has sought an appropriate writ, order, or direction restraining the authorities from enforcing Regulation 3(c) “in it…