Protesters proceeded through various city streets and made their way to Jungfernstieg, a popular tourist spot. They carried banners and placards denouncing the unlawful control of Balochistan, human rights violations, and forced disappearances.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan called for urgent attention to the rights violations endured by those resorting to enter abroad through illegal routes, and added that most victims are often subjected to torture, extortion, abuses, blackmail, imprisonment, and even death.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued a show-cause notice to Akasa Airlines for "several regulatory breaches identified during a recent review", an official press release said.
Amid the ongoing atrocities and enforced disappearances in Balochistan, Pakistani security forces have recently targeted Baloch activists and leaders who speak out against these human rights violations, resorting to abductions and killings.
The Taliban has enacted stringent new laws in Afghanistan, significantly restricting women's public lives. Under these laws, women must cover their entire bodies, including their faces, and are banned from singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public. They are also prohibited from looking a
United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Turk has called for victim-centred implementation of new transitional Justice legislation in Nepal ensuring accountability and reconciliation.
Issuing a statement, Turk said, "Eighteen years since the end of the decade-long conflict, and after sever
A recent report by Yale University has highlighted the precarious living conditions of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) under Chinese repression.
Nepal's House of Representatives endorsed the enforced disappearances, Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (third amendment) Act 2024 on Wednesday. The recently amended bill comes after an agreement in between the major parties to list intentional and arbitrary killings as seriou
Amid international scrutiny for human rights violations, China is now attempting to present Xinjiang as a tourist hotspot, a strategy orchestrated and funded by the Xi Jinping administration, wrote Foreign Affairs & Security Minister of the East Turkistan Government in Exile on X.
US-based firm Hindenburg Research on Saturday posted a cryptic message hinting at a possible new India-centric report, over a year after it published allegations against the Adani group of companies of insider trading and other violations in the stock market.