London: The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) has announced the details of its activities in Geneva during the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council in September this year. “Due to various kinds of restrictions because of the corona epidemic, BHRC has reduced the number of its activities”, read the statement. According to a BHRC press release, BHRC colleagues will be
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The Baloch human rights council (BHRC) strongly condemns Pakistan’s acts of reprisal against the families of Baloch insurgents. It is quite concerning that the state establishment of Pakistan is using every possible instance to justify enforced disappearances, although, the United Nations clearly states that Enforced Disappearances cannot be justified under any circumstances either in peace or war. This came quite
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London: The scheduled conference in the House of Lords on 28 April 2020 has been cancelled because of the situation created with the outbreak of coronavirus. The conference titled “Balochistan: War crimes & human rights abuses in a forgotten conflict” was set to highlight various aspects of the Baloch national question, and the humanitarian crisis developed in Balochistan as a
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London: The Baloch Human Rights Council has appointed Gohraam Baloch as its representative in the Netherlands. The decision came following Gohraam Baloch’s pledge to adhere to the aims and objectives of the council to protect and promote the rights of the people of Balochistan. Gohraam has previously been associated with the Baloch Students Organization (BSO) in Turbat, Balochistan.
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Geneva: 11 March 2020 During the general debate on Item-4 of the 43rd regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the BHRC representative for Western Balochistan, Jamshaid Amiri, informed the council that Pakistani security forces, its clandestine agencies and death squads are committing enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan on a mass scale. Jamshaid Amiri drew the
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Geneva: On 12 March 2020, the Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) held a protest demonstration near the Broken Chair in Geneva, Switzerland to highlight the human rights abuses facing the people of Balochistan in Pakistan, and to request the United Nations to act against Pakistan which is violating all the human rights instruments it is a signatory of while quelling
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Geneva: The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) convened a conference “State-sponsored religious extremism in Balochistan” to explore the various aspects of the menace of Islamist extremism in Balochistan and its regional and international implications. The conference was chaired by the Secretary-General of the BHRC Samad Baloch while the Informational Secretary of the BHRC, Qambar Malik Baloch provided a detailed presentation
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Geneva: The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) on Wednesday hosted a conference on Balochistan outside the United Nations building in Geneva. The conference entitled, “Genocide in Balochistan and the role of the international community” highlighted the unabated grave violations of human rights in Balochistan by the religious states of Pakistan and Iran and expressed concern over the silence of the international
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Geneva: March 6, 2020 While highlighting the atrocities being perpetrated on the Baloch, the BHRC representative Qambar Malik Baloch in his intervention during the general debate on item 3 of the 43rd Session of the UNHRC demanded that the human rights violations in Balochistan must be stopped. He drew the attention of the council to the human rights violations being
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Date: 10/02/2020 His Excellency Mr. António GuterresUnited Nations Secretary-GeneralU.N. Headquarters New York, NY 10017The U.S.A. Dear Mr. António Guterres, On behalf of the Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC), we would like to thank you for your services to the global community in promoting international harmony, peace and security. The BHRC is an international rights organization working for the protection and
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