A side event held during the 58th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, on 26th March 2025 drew urgent attention to systemic human rights violations in Pakistan, focusing particularly on religious persecution, education policy, and the use of European Union development instruments.
Join us for an urgent discussion on Human Rights in Pakistan, Particularly the education sector crisis. This event will highlight how ideological influences and rising intololerance threaten fundamental rights, limit access to education, and jeopardize academic freedom
CAP Liberté de Conscience and the International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) are ringing the alarm bells over the continuing erosion of religious freedom in Pakistan. In a recent joint report submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, these organizations continued to highlight the systematic and widespread violations of the rights of religious minorities with a focus on the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. The report shows that international intervention is desperately required to prevent the further persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan, a community that has been persecuted for its beliefs for years.
In a written submission made to the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience (CAP LC) has put important questions to Pakistan about its education system, specifically the problematic Single National Curriculum (SNC). The declaration, which does so meticulously, documents systemic problems that infringe on the principles of religious freedom and inclusive education and highlights the impacts of the existing educational policies.
The EU has told Pakistan not to take its GSP+ status for granted because compliance with international human rights obligations is a condition for the trade preferences under the scheme. The EU has also expressed its concerns over Pakistan’s violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which Pakistan signed in 2010.
