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Sri Lanka has world's 2nd-highest number of enforced disappearances: Right
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 5 (ANI): Sri Lanka has the world's second-highest number of enforced disappearances, as tens of thousands of people have "forcibly disappeared" over many decades, according to Amnesty International.
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Baloch citizens intensify protest against enforced disappearances by Pakis
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], June 27 (ANI): The Baloch National Movement (BNM) has intensified protests across Europe to condemn forceful abductions of political activities by security forces in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
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International Torture Day and Balochistan
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], June 27 (ANI): International Torture Day is in support of victims of torture, where people around the globe express their solidarity and support with the hundreds and thousands of torture victims and their families throughout the world, who are also suffering in trauma.
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Pak's amendment bill on enforced disappearances inadequate to curb menace,
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 26 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) secretary-general Farhatullah Babar has said that the recent bill introduced by the Imran Khan-led government to curb the practice of enforced disappearances would not end the menace as it requires further deliberation and am
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Baloch National Movement holds protest in London against enforced disappea
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], June 25 (ANI): Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Baloch National Movement (BNM) recently organised a protest in front of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's residence in London on the occasion of the 12-year enforced disappearance of Dr Deen Muhammad Baloch.
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'Enforced disappearances' on the rise in Pakistan's Balochistan province
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): The cases of "enforced disappearances" are rising in Pakistan's Balochistan as 16 people were reportedly "abducted" by the country's security forces in the month of June alone, said the Balochistan Post.
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MQM founder writes open letter to scribes of Pak's Punjab province, says t
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], May 31 (ANI): Founder and leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain on Monday wrote a letter to the journalists belonging to Pakistan's Punjab province amid the ongoing media curbs in the country.
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In a first, Special UN Rapporteurs issue joint communique on enforced disa
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 28 (ANI): In its first-ever "Joint Communication" from the UN Special Rapporteurs, eight different UN human rights bodies have formally inquired about the enforced disappearances of people in Pakistan from Prime Minister Imran Khan's government, putting a seal on
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World Sindhi Congress highlights enforced disappearances in Pakistan durin
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 22 (ANI): A delegation of World Sindhi Congress (WSC) and Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh (VMPS) had a video meeting with the UN Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) during the 124th session and relatives of the victims of enforced disappear
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Tibet Bureau Geneva holds China responsible for enforced disappearance of
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 21 (ANI): The Tibet Bureau Geneva held a virtual panel discussion on May 17 to mark the 26th year of the enforced disappearance of Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and held that China is responsible for his enforced disappearance and accused Beijing me
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Protest outside Chinese embassy in London to mark enforced disappearance d
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 18 (ANI): A protest was held outside the Chinese embassy in London to observe the 26th anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Tibetan Buddhism's 11th Panchen Lama.
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Pakistan witnessed substantial human rights violations in 2020: Report
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): As in preceding years, Pakistan witnessed substantial human rights violations in 2020, from forced conversions of religious minorities and crimes against women to enforced disappearances and curbs on freedom of expression, the Human Rights Commission of Pakist
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