Author: Urooj Aijaz - Aneeqa Memon

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity” – Nelson Mandela Every year, December 10th is observed as Human Rights Day. On December 10th, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); the document which grants rights to every individual regardless of race, cast, culture, class, nationality, religion, language, and ethnicity. Despite this, human rights violation is spreading as a pandemic disease that is plaguing the entire world. The violation of human rights is manifested in the form of human trafficking, child abuse, gender discrimination, violation of prisoners’ rights, refugee rights,…

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