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UN official raises alarm over Iran's arrests of Afghan migrants
Updated : 11 months ago IST
A UN official has raised alarm over Iran's arrest of hundreds of Afghan migrants accused of spying, with reports of abuse and lack of due process. UN experts, cited by Khaama Press, warn the situation may worsen amid Iran-Israel tensions and ongoing crackdowns on minorities and refugees.
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Two Baloch students forcibly disappeared in Turbat; UN experts decry ongoi
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Two young Baloch students have allegedly been forcibly taken by Pakistani security forces in Turbat, the primary city of the Kech district in Balochistan, as reported by The Balochistan Post (TBP).
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EU rights group, UN experts condemn detention of Baloch activists in Pakis
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
The organisation also expressed concern over the "attempted arbitrary detention" of WHRD Sabiha Baloch on 5 April, stating that her family has since been threatened, which seems to be "a direct retaliation for her human rights advocacy in Balochistan."
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UN experts urge Pakistan to address human rights violations in Balochistan
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
"Pakistan appears to conflate legitimate human and minority rights advocacy and public demonstrations with terrorism, threatening freedoms of expression, assembly, and association," the experts said. "Repeated internet blackouts in Balochistan have impeded freedom of information, transpar
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UN experts urge Pakistan to halt Afghan deportations, warn of rights viola
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
UN human rights experts have urged Pakistan to immediately stop the mass deportation and forced return of Afghan nationals, warning of serious rights violations amid the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. They called on Islamabad to uphold international obligations and protect vulnerabl
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UN experts urge China to explain detention of Tibetan environmental activi
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Three UN Special rapporteurs, Mary Lawlor, Astrid Puentes Rian, and Irene Khan, issued a collective statement expressing their concerns regarding the summoning and interrogation of Tibetan environmental activist Tsongon Tsering in Ngaba, Sichuan, as reported by the Central Tibet Administrat
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Pakistan: UN experts demand release of Baloch activists and end to crackdo
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
The experts expressed concern about an escalating series of actions by the Pakistan police against the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC).
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Thailand must immediately halt deportation of 48 Uyghurs to China: UN expe
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
The government of Thailand must immediately halt the possible transfer of 48 Uyghurs to the People's Republic of China, United Nations experts said on Tuesday, warning that the group was at real risk of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment if they are returned
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UN experts call for immediate sanctions, arms embargo against Israel
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Following Israel's strike on Rafah, killing 45 people, the United Nations experts have issued the call for "decisive international action" and called for immediate sanctions and an arms embargo against Israel.
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What's happening in Xinjiang, Tibet is part of Chinese colonisation proces
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The speakers included social activists, human rights advocates, representatives and delegates from the World Uyghur Congress, and the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, a social organisation from the US.
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UN experts lambast Pakistan for failing to stop forced conversions, marria
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
According to the same UN press release the experts expressed concern that forced marriages and religious conversions of girls from religious minorities which have been coerced are validated by the courts, often invoking religious law to justify keeping victims with their abductors rather tha
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UN experts condemn forced marriages, religious conversions in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
"Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence," the experts said in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday.
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