The report examines online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) in Pakistan, using the Muzaffargarh case as a key example. It highlights how children are groomed, exploited, recorded, and abused through digital platforms, while weak laws, limited data, poor institutional coordination, and inadequate victim protection allow the problem to persist.
The report examines online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) in Pakistan, using the Muzaffargarh case as a key example. It highlights how children are groomed, exploited, recorded, and abused through digital platforms, while weak laws, limited data, poor institutional coordination, and inadequate victim protection allow the problem to persist.
The report, Left Behind: The Human Cost of Enforced Disappearances, examines the continuing human, social, economic, and legal consequences of enforced disappearances in Pakistan. Rather than focusing only on missing persons and institutional mechanisms, it centers the experiences of affected families, particularly women and children. Based on interviews, civil-society documentation, and official data, the report finds that disappearances create prolonged financial hardship, legal uncertainty, psychological distress, educational disruption, stigma, and social isolation. It also identifies weaknesses in Pakistan’s institutional and legal responses, including the absence of a comprehensive law criminalizing enforced disappearance and limited support for affected families. The report recommends legal recognition for missing persons, financial and psychosocial assistance, improved case tracking, stronger accountability, and ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
The paper examines whether the existing global health law framework was adequate to deal with COVID-19 and identifies weaknesses in the international system for responding to pandemics. It focuses particularly on the powers of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Health Regulations (2005).
The brief is a comprehensive investigative report published by Amnesty International in partnership with the Center for Law & Justice (CLJ). The document exposes systemic, caste-based discrimination, social stigmatization, and highly hazardous working conditions faced by sanitation workers in Pakistan.
Modern Slavery: Trafficking in Women and Girls in Pakistan examines human trafficking as a form of modern slavery in Pakistan, with particular attention to women and girls. The report identifies Pakistan as a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking and highlights forced labour, domestic servitude, sexual exploitation, forced marriage, forced begging, and bonded labour. The study argues that poverty, unemployment, gender inequality, lack of awareness, and weak enforcement of anti-trafficking laws increase vulnerability to trafficking. It draws on interviews with law-enforcement agencies, government departments, NGOs, international organizations, and trafficking survivors. The report concludes that Pakistan needs better data collection, stronger law-enforcement capacity, improved coordination between institutions, and more effective implementation of existing laws.