Mar 10, 2017

Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Groups Vulnerable to Corrupt Police

Photo courtesy of the Daily Star Indigenous citizens in the Chittagong Hill Tracts have been apprehensive since the installation of a controversial law enforcement officer in February 2017. A 2016 mass human rights violation is attributed to the individual, who was purportedly responsible for destroying the homes of a local indigenous group. Police activity in Bangladesh has been linked to extrajudicial...

Mar 10, 2017

Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Groups Vulnerable...

Photo courtesy of the Daily Star Indigenous citizens in the Chittagong Hill Tracts have been apprehensive since the installation of a controversial law enforcement officer in February 2017. A 2016 mass...

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Mar 10, 2017

Tibet: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Draws...

Photo courtesy of UN Geneva @Flickr On the occasion of the 34th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein addressed...

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Mar 09, 2017

Education Spells Freedom... With Your Support...

  The fight against slavery and oppression has to continue.

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Mar 09, 2017

East Turkestan: Beijing Steps Up “Counter-Terrorism”...

Photo courtesy of the Sydney Criminal Lawyers After Beijing dispatched a large number of troops to East Turkestan’s capital Urumqi last week, criminal defence firm Sydney Criminal Lawyers released...

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Mar 09, 2017

Iranian Kurdistan: UN Special Rapporteur Roundly...

Photo Courtesy of Kurdistan24 The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran, Ms Asma Jahangir, roundly condemned the numerous human rights violations perpetrated by the Iranian regime...

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Mar 09, 2017

Balochistan: More Than 22 Million Children Without...

Photo courtesy of Beluchistan @Flickr   In Pakistan’s Balochistan region, seventy percent of children aged 5 to 16 are out of school –the highest rate of uneducated children in Pakistan....

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Mar 08, 2017

UNPO Celebrates International Women’s Day

On International Women’s Day, UNPO reaffirms its commitment to help forge a more inclusive world, one in which women from all walks of life are safe from gender-based and sexual violence, have the...

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Mar 08, 2017

Hmong: Community’s Vietnam War Veterans Receive...

Photo courtesy of Nelia Dempsey @WMC Action News 5 On 4 March 2017, the city of Bolivar, Tennessee, USA, held a Vietnam War Veterans parade, especially honouring the contribution of the Hmong to America’s...

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