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UN experts urge Pakistan to address human rights violations in Balochistan
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks 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 : 11 months, 1 week 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 : 11 months, 2 weeks 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 : 11 months, 3 weeks 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, 1 month 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 : 1 year, 9 months 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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UN experts lambast Pakistan for failing to stop forced conversions, marria
Updated : 1 year, 11 months 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 : 1 year, 11 months 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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UN experts condemn Chinese inaction in rights activist Cao Shunli's death,
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The UN experts condemned the continued failure of Chinese authorities to investigate the death of human rights defender Cao Shunli and bring those responsible to justice, even a decade after the killing.
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UN experts condemn terrorist bombings against political campaign offices i
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
UN experts also condemned many other violent acts targeting the polls, including a bombing at a women's polling station on February 8 that killed two children.
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Afghanistan: United Nations Special Rapporteur endorses calls to cease gir
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
According to the UN experts' statement, detained women and girls were taken to police stations, where they received only one meal per day and endured physical torture.
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Afghanistan: UN experts express concerns over arbitrary detention of women
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
In a recent report, United Nations experts voiced concerns about the Taliban's "arbitrary" arrest of women and children in Afghanistan.
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