Geneva, Feb 6 (IANS) A new United Nations (UN) report has warned that Chinese state policies in Tibet are actively eroding the foundations of Tibetan civilisation and threatening the very survival of Tibetans as a distinct people, a report has detailed. The Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Nicolas Levrat, revealed the findings in a report presented to the UN Human Rights Council. It identifies Tibet as a case where state-led policies are not only discriminatory but constitute what the UN e…
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Geneva, Jan 30 (IANS) The United Nations Human Rights Office, along with several other human rights and legal organisations, strongly condemned the conviction and sentencing of Pakistani human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chatta, citing concerns over the misuse of laws under Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) to suppress dissent across the country.The remarks came after a Pakistani court last week reportedly sentenced Imaan and her husband, Hadi, to …
Paris, Jan 2 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation strongly condemned the brutal killing of a lawyer in Bangladesh by an “organised mob”, warning that the incident reflects a broader pattern of violence targeting legal professionals across the country.In its statement, JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) stated 35-year-old Nayem Kibria, a pro–Awami League lawyer and a practising member of the Pabna District Judge Court, had travelled to Dhaka to seek bail from the High…