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Religious Freedom Awards 2024: A Tribute to Coexistence and Human Dignity
Skip to content 05/12/202401/01/2025 Digest External News External Digest Religious Freedom Awards 2024: A…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
Qatar’s pluralism at risk, warn UN experts
GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm at the potential erasure of the Baha’i…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
UN experts concerned by forced conversion through marriage in Pakistan
GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed serious concern about the continued and widespread patterns…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
India: UN experts warn Jagtar Singh Johal’s prolonged detention amounts to psychological torture
GENEVA – There is no rationale for the continued detention of Sikh British national,…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
South Sudan: UN experts urge immediate protection of civilians amid escalating crisis
GENEVA – UN experts* today warned that South Sudan is turning into a catastrophic…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
Afghanistan: UN experts demand immediate end to Taliban restrictions on women at UN premises
GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm over the continuing ban preventing Afghan women…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
China’s silence deepens fears over disappeared Uyghur returnees a year on, warn UN experts
GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern about 40 Uyghur Muslim men forcibly…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
Iran: UN experts demand transparency and accountability following nationwide protests
GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today urged Iranian authorities to fully disclose the…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
Venezuela’s amnesty law must apply to all unlawfully prosecuted victims and be grounded in transitional justice: UN experts
GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today welcomed with caution the draft amnesty law…
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