The Right To Privacy In Pakistan: Privacy International’s Submission To The Human Rights Committee

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1st December 2017

The Right to Privacy in Pakistan: Privacy International’s Submission to the Human Rights Committee

In this submission, Privacy International provides the Committee with their observations to the written replies of the Pakistani government and with additional, up to date information to that contained in the brieing submitted to the Committee in advance of the adoption of the list of issues in 2016.

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