Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan “Under international law, a state commits an enforced disappearance when its agents take a person into custody and then deny holding the person, or conceal or fail to disclose the person’s whereabouts” (“Pakistan Urged…”). Pakistan has been abducting people who protest or who are not the same religion as others from their homes and taking them from their family. When someone is abducted in most cases they are tortured and never seen again. It has become a serious problem in Pakistan. Innocent civilians are enduring suffering from their own government. Enforced disappearances is a human rights violation, people have the right to not be held captive and to not be taken away from their family. Enforced disappearances …show more content…
The country has brought attention to the Human Rights Watch (“’Enforced Disappearances’…”). “The Pakistan government has made little progress in resolving hundreds of cases of alleged disappearances while new incidents are being reported around the country” (“Pakistan Urged…”). Not only has Pakistan brought attention to the Human Rights Watch, the Working Group has even been noticed Pakistan has been losing control. “Concerning its visit to Pakistan in 2012 the Working Group noted efforts to deal with the issue of enforced disappearances, but stressed that actions taken to tackle security threats must respect human rights at all times” (“Human Rights Council”). Pakistan has been ordered to end enforced disappearance, but the government rejects the claims. One of the main places in Pakistan where enforced disappearances occur is in Baluchistan. It has been noticed that in Baluchistan hundreds of people have gone missing since 2005 (“’Enforced Disappearances’…”). Authorities are ignoring to prevent or punish those who are involved. Abducting someone is a dehumanizing practice which is why Pakistan should be carefully …show more content…
The chances of the family ever seeing their loved one again are very low. When the family tries to file a case over an enforced disappearance nothing can really be done. “Other families were threatened that if they did file a case, their loved ones would be harmed, or another member of their family would also be abducted” (Desk). A woman named Amina Masood Janjua, had lost her husband from an enforced disappearance. She has not seen her husband for almost seven years. Ever since she lost her husband, Amina started a campaign for people who go missing because people are too afraid to talk, so she took it upon herself (Marie). Just imagining a wife losing her husband without ever knowing what happened to him, shows that enforced disappearances can affect everyone who knows the
People disappear for several reasons; it could be to start a new life, it could be to hide from someone or it could be because someone doesn’t want you found. This paper is about the disappearance of Yessenia Suarez and her two children. Can the police determine if a crime was committed and by whom? This paper will describe the evidence and the timeline of events in the case.
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In Afghanistan, the police force continues to torture and rape innocent women for unnecessary reasons. This is similar to The Handmaid's Tale in that Offred, and other handmaids, not only go through the devestation of "The Ceremony", but also can be used and possibly even raped by their Commanders, and there is nothing the handmaid can do about it. If she speaks, she is usually not believed, and then she is sent away because she broke the law. The handmaid would usually die for making such accusations. Women are given little to no rights in Gilead.
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A constant sight on the news or internet is of a missing person. Studies by the crimelibrary say that over 800,000 people go missing every year (4). Of those, a little over half are men, half are ethnic minorities and around 50,000 are adults. For such democratic statistics, one would imagine that there would be an equal amount of media coverage for these demographics, yet that is not true. If we observe carefully, we can see that the media tends to follow a certain pattern with who they pick to report on. Usually they are young, pretty blonde girls. At the very least they are likely to be women. Going by what we see, it would be a fair assumption to say that most individuals who go missing are female, youth or Caucasian, yet the statistics speak otherwise.
Cops tend to identify and speak to family members about the missing person in order to get as much important information as possible in hopes to find clues as to their where abouts. According to the Toronto Police Service, “the search for missing persons is divided into 3 levels of operation depending on the circumstances. Level 1, when a person is reported missing but there are no extenuating circumstances, level 2, implemented when the missing person is under 16 or over 70 and there is evidence of foul play, level 3, if there are extenuating circumstances or level 1 and 2 are ineffective” (http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/procedures/get.php?missing_persons.pdf) In the story, the cops have been searching for Niks friend, Corinne, for 4 years now and has now been declared as unknowingly missing. The community also had put posters up for both missing girls, “Not another missing poster stapled to the trees, hung in the storefront windows- another innocent face, asking to be found.” (MIranda, 39) While posters were being put up, they went to talk to her family, only to discover she hasn't spoken to her family in years, then searched her house head to toe, only
When the government denies an individual a chance to make decisions, they fail to work towards developing their personal goals. It is important for a social being to participate in communal activities in order to feel at peace with themselves. Human beings are social beings with feelings and aspirations that need to be nurtured. A government that is devoted to offer assistance to detainees contradicts itself when it mistreats the same people it is expected to protect. People who have ran away from violence need rehabilitation and moral support in a conducive
Women in Pakistan are mistreated and abused on a daily basis. The punishments many women who live in this female oppressed country undergo are cruel and unusual in nature. Punishments such as acid attacks, being whipped, being burned, raped, or killed. Although many believe this would apply to all women it mainly just applies to the middle and lower class. The higher class also known as the “elite” class has an advantage being much more educated, and wealthier. The “elite” class owns property and does not hesitate to seek a divorce and to remarry. Due to the fact they are so high up in the economy, they are fully reinforced and protected by the power of their family and community. Not all Pakistani woman can experience the “elite” lifestyle. For the woman who don’t experience this lifestyle, they often live in fear. For example, a woman could not leave her house without th...
Abduction is when someone uses deceit or force in order to take a person or a child away from their home or relatives. The abductors do not reveal their motive for taking away the person or the child.” In legal definition, the victim knows or has some sort of relation with the abductor. The victim can be a minor or an adult. The most common cases of abduction are seen in divorce cases, where one parent is given the sole custody of a child. The person who abducts is not holding the person for profit or any monetary gain from the victim. The laws for abduction crimes vary from state to state and country to country, depending on the severity of the
It ought to be an incredible sympathy toward the lawmakers in power that the number of inhabitants in Pakistan was 33 million in 1950 and its rank was fourteenth on the planet. Today...
"I declare emergency" The screen of the TV blurred and then, it went pitch-black, shut down to the millions of stunned expressions across Pakistan, their ears echoing its final call. It was time. He had done this before, but now, he'd simply crossed the line. The Constitution pronounced its final vows, justice was heartlessly cremated, lives bid farewell with a lonely tear, and not even the ashes of liberty were able to be whiffed in the monoxodized morning sky. Pakistan and its civilians had plunged into deepest mourning as an onyx blanket leisurely wove its tendrils over the nation, plaguing it, depriving the once-united country of its birthright. Was this an epidemic like the Bubonic Plague, a warfare like the WWII, a revolution like its own, a natural disaster like a massive earthquake, or perhaps mass destruction under the hands of "terrorists." Staggered as you may be, the ultimate choice is the closest possible answer.
Child abduction, domestically or by a stranger, has many negative effects. These effects are dire issues that need to be addressed on a great level. Child abduction does not just affect the involved family. Most of the public has misconceptions about child abduction, therefore, not many people outside of the police or the family of the abducted care about children getting taken. Television shows and fictional stories have done nothing to combat this. Child abduction is not just a private family matter.
This text written by Yasser Latif Hamdani highlights the political, physical and social injustices experienced by Ahmadis living in Pakistan. Hamdani is Lawyer based in Lahore. He got his education from the University of Punjab and Rutgers University. His famous cases include the Bhagat case and the Youtube case. He is well known for his advocacy to end the persecution of Ahmadis and to give them equal voting rights. His purpose in writing this text is to inform the people of Pakistan, especially the Muslims, of the persecution is being endured by the Ahmadis. This text was written in 2012, but it has become relevant once again recently due to the increasing attacks on Ahmadis and their places of worship these days.
In the past few decades, rape in Pakistan has become a serious issue. It is such a huge problem that the United States is not doing anything to help. The main reason the US is not helping is that many people do not know how serious this problem is. It is difficult to get statistics on abuse and rape from Pakistan. Since their government is very religion based, they do not always treat it as a crime. Pakistani people tend to be very religious, therefore they go along with the government and do not see rape the way we do (Ashfaq).
Balochistan is advantageously located at the eastern boarder of Middle East, connecting Central Asian States with Indian Sub-continent and Indian sea. Presently, the three parts of Balochistan are under the sovereignty of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan; Balochistan is the north-western province of Pakistan, sharing boarder with Sindh in east, on the south by Arabian Sea, on the north-west by Iran and on the north-east by Punjab and the north-west with Afghanistan. Since the inception of Pakistan, Balochistan has been kept deprived and neglected by mainstream media and the frequent military interventions to crush the civil rights movements have deteriorated the ...