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UN expert raises alarm over serious human rights violations against religious minorities in situations of conflict
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UN expert raises alarm over serious human rights violations against religious minorities in situations of conflict

March 10, 2022 FoRB NGO Committee Bureau

GENEVA (10 March 2022) – A UN human rights expert has expressed grave concern at the scale, severity and systematic nature of human rights violations perpetrated against religious and belief minorities in situations of conflict, in a report presented to the Human Rights Council today. “The most politically marginalized are particularly susceptible to rising insecurity, with violence and discrimination frequently representing a continuation rather than a break from recent history – and often compounding vulnerability based on religion or belief and other identifiers, such as ethnicity, race and gender,” said…

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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 11 March 2022. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.

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