Pakistan
Baloch organisations to host photo, banner exhibition outside UN office to highlight Pakistan's human rights violations in Balochistan
Several Baloch organisations will join to host a photo and banner exhibition from September 25 to 27 in front of the United Nations office in Geneva to make the international community conscious of human rights violations in the Balochistan province of Pakistan.
The event to be organised by the Baloch Voice Association in coordination with the Baloch Peoples’ Congress, MiMAN Association and Voice for Baloch Missing Persons will be held during the 54th UN Human Rights Council Session, reports ANI.
Munir Mengal, president of Baloch Voice Association told ANI, “The event will be organised to draw the UN bodies, UN member states attention towards gross human rights violations systematically being done by Pakistani Army in Balochistan.”
He added, “Particularly, the whole Baloch society is in trauma due to Pakistani Inhuman Systematic act of disappearing Baloch people. As per reports more than 50,000 Baloch people, including women and children, are victims of enforced disappearances.”
He also said that two conferences inside the United Nations office in Geneva will also be held during the 54th Session.
“The objective of these events is to seek UN and UN member state attention towards gross human rights violations in Balochistan particularly about Enforced disappearance of Baloch people by Pakistani security forces,” he said.
Munir said, “UN member states and UN bodies shall intervene to stop Pakistan from barbaric acts in Balochistan. This shall be noted Pakistan occupied Balochistan by force and the people are resisting Pakistani forced occupation”.
Meanwhile, the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council is currently going on from September 11 to October 13.
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