enforced disappearances

UPR Working group asks B’desh to probe all ‘disappearances’.
By Policy Research May 16, 2018

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has commended Bangladesh’s human rights record particularly its progress in ensuring labour rights and workplace safety.  And offered some homilies. Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights in Bangladesh undertaken by a working group of the UN Human Rights Council has asked Dhaka to thoroughly investigate all the incidents of abductions, …

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Pakistan: Enforced Disappearances
By Policy Research August 31, 2017

Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances have become a national phenomenon in Pakistan. Earlier this year, a number of bloggers and activists disappeared from major cities from the Sharif’s turf- Punjab While there are reports that the practice of enforced disappearance has existed in Pakistan since at least the 1970s, such cases have been recorded in significant …

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