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Society for Human Rights & Prisoners' Aid (SHARP-Pakistan)

Striving for a Human Rights friendly Pakistan

Zeeshan Ahmed

Consultative Dialogue on Citizenship to Refugee Children and Stateless Persons (Quetta)

Introduction/Background: Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan has proposed the integration policy for Pakistani born refugee children and stateless persons.  This idea is widely appreciated by all the stakeholders across the globe. He has invited suggestions in this regard while speaking in the parliament. By endorsing the humanitarian stance of PM, SHARP-Pakistan has voluntary started […]

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One-day Capacity building training for Police Officials (Islamabad)

SHARP-PAKISTAN conducted a training workshop for 23 police officials at Police Lines Headquarter, H 11 Islamabad on 22nd November, 2018; with the collaboration of UNHCR, for the purpose of enhancing their knowledge about Refugee rights through respective sessions on Human rights and refugee rights. Mr. Mudassar Javed, Director SHARP-PAKISTAN gave concise introduction of SHARP as well

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One-day Capacity building training for Police Officials (Hyderabad)

SHARP-PAKISTAN conducted a training workshop for Police Officials at Indus Hotel, Hyderabad on 4th September, 2018 in collaboration with UNHCR. PARTICIPANTS: The Inspectors, Sub Inspectors,/SHOs and IOs from different Police Stations from Lower parts of Sindh (Hayderabad, Jamshoro, Matyari, Tando M Khan, Tando Allahyar etc) were present to attend this training. The total number of participants

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One-day Capacity building training for Police Officials (Gujranwala)

On 30th August 2018, SHARP/ALAC II team organized a very successful one day training workshop for the police officials on the topic of “Human & Refugee Rights in the Light of Relevant Laws and Notifications”, aiming to highlight the current status of Human Rights & Afghan Status in Pakistan. Participants: The participants included senior Police officials

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One-day Capacity building training for Police Officials (Jhelum)

A one day Training Workshop was organized for Police Officials on “Human Rights and Refugee Laws” at Dewan-e-Saeed Hotel, Jhelum on 16th August, 2018.                           Participants: The participants included around 58 police officials including DSP, SHO, SI, ASI, Moharar, Head Constables and Constables.

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Closure of UNHCR Voluntary Repatriation Centres during Eid-ul-Adha

Afghan refugees holding Proof of Registration (PoR) or UNHCR-issued documents, who are planning to return to Afghanistan from Pakistan under the UN Refugee Agency’s facilitated voluntary repatriation programme are informed, that the UNHCR Voluntary Repatriation Centres (VRC) in Azakhel, Nowshera and Baleli, Quetta will be closed on account of Eid-ul-Adha, from Tuesday 21 August to

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Closure of UNHCR Voluntary Repatriation Centres during general election

Afghan refugees holding Proof of Registration (PoR) or UNHCR-issued documents, who are planning to return to Afghanistan from Pakistan under the UN Refugee Agency’s facilitated voluntary repatriation programme are informed, that the UNHCR Voluntary Repatriation Centres (VRC) in Azakhel, Nowshera and Baleli, Quetta will be closed on the day of Pakistan’s general election, Wednesday 25

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Interim Notification by SAFRON for PoR cards expiry

An Interim notification has been issued by Ministry of SAFRON regarding the PoR expiry on 29-Jun-2018. According to the notification, there are clear instructions to Law Enforcement Agencies not to harass or take any adverse action against afghan refugees till the finalization of decision beyond 30th June 2018. Here is the notification:

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