Faisalabad, March 8 -- Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) observed International Women's Day 2026 under the UN theme, "Rights". Justice. Action. For All Women and Girls" and urged the enforcement of constitutional safeguards in cases involving minority girls, according to an official press release.

HRFP assists, documents, and publishes cases concerning the abduction, forced conversion, and forced marriage of minority girls in Pakistan and has once again raised serious concerns in a Women's Day event over the alarming pattern of such incidents.

Based on HRFP's previously reported case studies on the facts of abducted minority girls who do not return to their families, factors contributing to this grave situation include religious discri...