Activists from Pakistan's Child Rights Movement, rally to condemn a child abuse scandal, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Police in eastern Pakistan arrested several men accused of ...

In a landmark move welcomed by Christian rights advocates, the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab Province on Wednesday (Feb. 11) signed into law an ordinance raising the minimum legal age of marriage to ...

Fazlur Rehman's remarks have spotlighted the deep resistance within Pakistan’s political and religious establishment to reforms that are meant to protect children and uphold their rights.

Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously approved the raising of the minimum legal age for marriage to 18 earlier this month, amending a 19th-century law allowing the marriage of Christian children.

(New York) – Pakistan’s government should immediately halt the apparent pending execution of an alleged child offender and commute his sentence News reports suggest that Shafqat Hussain, who was 14 or ...

LAHORE, Pakistan — Hameeda, 15, was married to Saqib, 30, in a small ceremony in a small village in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of northern Pakistan. Hameeda, who had only recently stopped playing ...

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Mashal Asim Khan is an LLB student in the University of London External ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Tears tracing lines of dirt on his face, six-year-old Pakistani boy Nabeel Mukhtar cries while crouching on a pavement to scrub motorbikes, his job for nine hours a day, six days ...

Human Rights Watch urges the government of Pakistan to: Raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 for men and women. Investigate all complaints of child marriage promptly, intervene to prevent child ...

For over a year, Sabir Shah, a madrassa student, was sexually abused by an influential religious cleric in Pakistan’s populous city of Lahore. In a video spread on social media and filmed by Shah ...