Latest OHCHR News & Updates

Islamabad, June 2 (IANS) The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has challenged Pakistan Supreme Court’s May 12 order that directed Islamabad High Court (IHC) to decide on the sentence suspension pleas of lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, in the social media posts case within two weeks, local media reported. While the May 26 deadline given by Supreme Court has passed already, the IHC, at the request of the prosecution, adjourned the hearing of Ima…

Geneva, May 22 (IANS) The Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations in Geneva demanded on Friday that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and his Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) publicly condemn the Kyiv regime’s attack on the college in Starobilsk.”We demand that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and his Office (OHCHR), as well as the relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council, find the strength to publicly condemn this…

Geneva, May 22 (IANS) United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk on Friday warned against the continued forced repatriation of Afghan refugees and asylum-seekers from host countries to Afghanistan, calling it a violation of international human rights and refugee law. “Afghan women, children and men continue to be pushed out of countries where they had sought safety, forcing them to return to Afghanistan against their will and exposing them to grave risk,” said Turk.Accord…