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Summary Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has launched online searchable database on www.hrcparchive.com.
It contains newspapers’ clippings, documents and data pertaining to human rights issues and democratic development in Pakistan.Each year hundreds of students, journalists, writers, civil society activists and researchers from within Pakistan and abroad visit the HRCP’s archives at its head office in Lahore. This online archive makes the required research material accessible in an easier, faster and more efficient way.Researchers from all over the world can benefit out of this resource. The project will strengthen monitoring, documentation and dissemination of human rights issues in Pakistan.Currently, the electronic archival database contains more than 600,000 records covering a period starting from 1 January 2006 to 30 July 2012. The work is underway to add archival records of the years 2003-2006 and at the same time the database is being updated on current happenings.The online digital archive is free for users who can search documents and news on select subjects by entering key words in the search at the website. The database comprises both Urdu and English documents and news clippings.The HRCP archival website is distinct from other popular search-engines like Google in that it gives focused results pertaining to particular subjects and events in Pakistan in a chronological order.At the moment, HRCP’s database is the only digital archive available through the Internet in Pakistan.
