Forced disappearance

Baloch American Congress Seeks United States to Stop Enforced Disappearances in Balochistan

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Friday, March 26, 2021
Crime, Insurgency in Balochistan, Baloch diaspora, Baloch nationalists, Balochistan, Asia, Human rights violations in Balochistan, Baloch Americans, Tara Chand, Separatism in Pakistan, Baloch people, Forced disappearance

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Baloch American Congress (BAC) has announced a campaign to draw the attention of the U.S. government, lawmakers, and human rights defenders to the issue of enforced disappearances in Balochistan in Southwest Asia.

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  • WASHINGTON, March 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Baloch American Congress (BAC) has announced a campaign to draw the attention of the U.S. government, lawmakers, and human rights defenders to the issue of enforced disappearances in Balochistan in Southwest Asia.
  • Dr. Tara Chand said, "Pakistan state security services such as the Southern Command of Pakistan army, Inter-Services Intelligence, Military Intelligence, and paramilitary Frontier Corps have been carrying out enforced disappearances in Balochistan with impunity."
  • "Meanwhile, new cases of enforced disappearances are being reported even now," the statement concluded.
  • The DC-based Baloch American Congress was launched in November by Dr. Tara Chand Baloch ,a former Baloch government minister, with the aim of drawing U.S. attention to the tsunami of human rights violations in Balochistan.

Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime: EU sanctions four people responsible for serious human rights violations in Russia

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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Forced disappearance, Human rights abuses, National security, Magnitsky Act, Dirty Wars, Counter-terrorism, Crimes, EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, Extrajudicial punishment, Arbitrary arrest and detention, Magnitsky legislation, Human rights in Venezuela

The Council today decided to impose restrictive measures on four Russian individuals responsible for serious human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests and detentions, as well as widespread and systematic repression of freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and freedom of opinion and expression in Russia.

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  • The Council today decided to impose restrictive measures on four Russian individuals responsible for serious human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests and detentions, as well as widespread and systematic repression of freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and freedom of opinion and expression in Russia.
  • This is the first time that the EU imposes sanctions in the framework of the new EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime which was established on 7 December 2020.
  • The sanctions regime enables the EU to target those responsible for acts such as genocide, crimes against humanity and other serious human rights violations or abuses such as torture, slavery, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests or detentions.
  • In addition, persons and entities in the EU are forbidden from making funds available to those listed, either directly or indirectly.

New book examines social, political and economic implications of Gambia’s democracy unraveling

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Thursday, July 2, 2020
Articles, Authoritarianism, Forms of government, Humans, Tyrant, Tribalism, Military dictatorship in Brazil, Forced disappearance, Politics, Dictatorship, Intellectual

The book addresses various aspect of the military dictatorship; political executions, forced disappearances, economic plunder, muzzling of the independent press, tribalism, and dysfunction of government.

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  • The book addresses various aspect of the military dictatorship; political executions, forced disappearances, economic plunder, muzzling of the independent press, tribalism, and dysfunction of government.
  • Each chapter of the book has intellectual appeal, providing hours of stimulating discussions and understanding of the nature of politics on the African continent.
  • To a large extent, Africa is still a mystery of many outsiders, but the book provides a look into what lies behind that cultural curtain, Jallow explains.
  • He wants readers to learn that political tyrannies, especially in Africa, can be brought down when democratic forces around the globe mobilize to put an end to political tyranny.

Victims of Enforced Disappearance Day Event At National Press Club

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Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Crime, Human rights abuses, Counter-terrorism, Euphemisms, Forced disappearance, Kidnapping, Political repression

Human rights groups will gather on August 30th at the National Press Club to commemorate the disappearance of thousands of people by repressive governments, and to support their families waiting to hear the whereabouts of their loved ones.

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  • Human rights groups will gather on August 30th at the National Press Club to commemorate the disappearance of thousands of people by repressive governments, and to support their families waiting to hear the whereabouts of their loved ones.
  • August 30th has been designated by the United Nations as International Day for the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
  • Sufi Laghari, Executive Director of the Sindhi Foundation said: "We want people to understand how governments carry out enforced disappearances to silence their dissidents.
  • Enforced disappearances are increasing in Bangladesh, at the same time the government denies that this problem even exists.