The theme of this special collection of papers, the lived experiences of women who belong to religious minorities, has been a blind spot both in…
Religious hate-speech and exclusion are an everyday experience for religious minorities in Pakistan. Over the past year, the youth development organisation Bargad, funded by Minority…
Original content published in partnership with CREID by Ravadar (23 October 2020) Mahesh Rana Every year countless cases of rape and murder are left unaddressed by the…
Mahesh Rana A Hindu man died of Coronavirus and was denied a dignified death (cremation ritual) by an angry mob in Punjab. Moreover, around 20…
Social welfare workers, doctors, and young social activists came to the fore from the religious minority community in order to alleviate the ills of COVID-19.…
Empress Market, Karachi (33SHARES33) The lockdown imposed by the Government of Sindh during COVID-19 had a negative impact on the financial state of the region.…
She was on her way to Church. Saneha Kinza Iqbal, a 16-year-old girl, was abducted last month in Pakistan by a man helped by two…
The majority of sanitation workers in Pakistan are from religious minorities, primarily Christian and Hindu. Sanitation work is low-paid and low-status, and street and sewer…
Originally published by The Diplomat (8 June 2020) Jaffer A. Mirza Referring to COVID-19 as “the Shia virus.” Denying aid to Christians and Hindus. These…
By Claire Thomas, Deputy Director of Minority Rights Group, and Aila Gill, CREID Program Coordinator From the US to the UK, many are outraged over the continued…
The world is faced with an unprecedented challenge and many argue that every resource we have should be deployed as fast and as fully as…
By Mariz Tadros, 31 March 2020 Are religious ideologues on coronavirus threatening to tear apart the much needed human solidarity to overcome the pandemic? A…
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