Enforced Disappearances

Aug 28, 2019

East Turkestan: Xinjiang's Voiceless Protests Hit Social Media

In the past weeks, the inhabitants of the Xinjiang region successfully staged a silent protest on social media that reached the outside world in spite of all surveillance and censorship. Dozens of people uploaded videos of themselves standing in front of the photos of their disappeared loved ones, thereby denouncing the human rights violations perpetrated by the PR China against its ethnic and religious...

Aug 28, 2019

East Turkestan: Xinjiang's Voiceless Protests...

In the past weeks, the inhabitants of the Xinjiang region successfully staged a silent protest on social media that reached the outside world in spite of all surveillance and censorship. Dozens of people...

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Jul 31, 2019

Balochistan: MEPs Urge Trump to Engage with Pakistan...

Sixteen Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have signed a letter in which they urged United States President Donald Trump to engage with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan during the latter’s...

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Jul 31, 2019

East Turkestan: Chinese Claims of Release of Uyghur...

Against mounting international pressure condemning the imprisonment of more than one million ethnic Uyghurs in detention camps in China’s Xinjiang region, China has announced that it released...

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Jul 26, 2019

Hmong: Suffering of the Hmong Highlighted During...

On 15 July 2019, the Captive Nations Summit was held in Washington D.C. to recognize peoples suffering under the oppression of communist and other totalitarian regimes. It provided US policy-makers...

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Jul 15, 2019

Hmong in Isolation

UNPO and Congress of World Hmong People submit joint report to the UN highlighting the desperate plight of the Hmong in Laos.

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Jun 18, 2019

World Baloch Organisation and Baloch Republican...

The World Baloch Organisation and the Baloch Republican Party have jointly launched a human rights campaign in London to highlight the dire human rights situation in Pakistan. The campaign aims to create...

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Jun 12, 2019

Balochistan: Pakistani Military Continues its...

The Pakistani military has intensified its suppression of Baloch rights activists in what can be seen as a chilling crackdown on freedom of expression in the region. Seventy persons were abducted by the...

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Jun 05, 2019

East Turkestan: U.S. Bill to Sanction Chinese...

In the face of the continuing crackdown on Uyghur Muslims in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, Uyghur rights advocates have been urging the U.S. Congress to ratify the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of...

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