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Pakistan: UN experts alarmed by lack of protection for minority girls from forced religious conversions and forced marriage
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Pakistan: UN experts alarmed by lack of protection for minority girls from forced religious conversions and forced marriage

April 11, 2024 Digest External News

News Digest: Automatically collected from relevant external sources. Not original Committee reporting or an official Committee position.

GENEVA (11 April 2024) – UN experts* today expressed dismay at the continuing lack of protection for young women and girls belonging to minority communities in Pakistan. “Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence,” the experts said. “The exposure of young women and girls belonging to religious minority communities to such heinous human rights violations and the impunity of such crimes can no longer be tolerated or justified.”

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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 11 April 2024. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.

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