The important function of the MoHR to harmonize national laws, regulations and practices with Pakistan’s international human rights covenants and agreements will be halted.
Source/Credit: Asian Human Rights Commission
By AHRC-STM-140-2013 | August 5, 2013
The newly elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has decided to do away with the Ministry of Human Rights and merged it with the Ministry of Law and Justice. Through this act of federal government the human rights portion of the new ministry is to be relegated to a unit of small unit of the Ministry of Law and Justice. The justification given by the government is that it has re-organised the Federal Secretariat, but the civil society of Pakistan accuses Mr. Sharif that he has never been happy with the existence of Human Rights ministry, which was established by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and whenever he came in power he abolished the ministry.
This decision will have a serious adverse impact on the state of human rights in Pakistan, due to several reasons, starting with the difference of mandates between the Ministry of Law and Justice (MoLJ) and Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR).
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