GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed serious concern about the continued and widespread patterns of abduction and forced religious conversion through marriage affecting women and girls belonging to minority communities in Pakistan, as impunity fuels this relentless practice. “Any change of religion or belief must be genuinely free from coercion, and marriage must be based on full and free consent, which is not legally possible when the victim is a child,” the experts said.
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 22 April 2026. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.