UN voices deep concern about a new regulation that effectively overturns a 60-year moratorium on the use of capital punishment and allows for children as young as seven to be sentenced to death for certain crimes.
Despite the UN voicing "deep concern" about the planned changes, country will introduce law on 1 May, with proposed punishments including the severing of limbs for theft.
Democratic States that value and respect a vibrant civil society should do more to support non-governmental organisations to have their voices heard at the United Nations, the International Service for Human Rights has said.
Sindh Assembly has become the country’s first elected assembly to have passed a bill on child marriages that places a ban on marriage of children under 18 years.
Draft law which proposes to curb the problems of child marriage, FGM, child labour and the use of child soldiers, awaits approval from the country's Parliament.
Berkin Elvan was a 15-year-old boy who was shot with a police tear gas canister during last summer's Gezi Park protests and died after 269 days in a coma.