This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Pakistan on 30 January 2023. Amnesty International assesses the national human rights frameworks and evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Pakistan in its previous UPR. Regarding the human rights situation on the ground, Amnesty International raises concerns about enforced disappearances, unlawful restrictions of freedom of conscience, thought or religion and to freedom of expression, sexual and gender-based violence and climate change. It ends with a set of recommendations to Pakistan which, if implemented, would contribute to improving the human rights situation.
