Thursday, May 2, 2024

Topic: forced disapperance

‘Disappeared’: The long wait for cursed Kunan-Poshpora family

Khera Begum was one of the twenty-three women who was raped by Army men that night in Kunan. Three decades later, the lightning struck Begum again when the army personnel interrupted the family’s dinner with sharp knocks on 15 December. They inquired about Begum’s 27-year-old son, Abdul Rashid Dar. 

Mexico: More than 100,000 people are now registered as “disappeared”

The news that more than 100,000 people in Mexico are now officially registered as “disappeared” is a tragedy, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday, in a call for action to tackle the country’s longstanding problem.

Video | Students demand answers in JNU student Najeeb Ahmed’s enforced disappearance

Student bodies collectively took out a march inside Jawaharlal Nehru University on Thursday, demanding answers about JNU student Najeeb Ahmed''s enforced disappearance.

On International Day of Disappeared, remember 8000+ victims of enforced disappearances in Kashmir

On the International Day of the Disappeared, remembering the Kashmiri lives which have been subjected to enforced disappearance not once, but over and over again across the past few decades.

Bangladesh: End enforced disappearances, hold Law enforcement accountable, demands rights groups

Bangladesh security forces and law-enforcement agencies continuously commit enforced disappearances with impunity, targeting journalists, activists, and government critics, 12 human rights groups said today ahead of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.

“Nobody dares to speak” said Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi before his forced disappearance

On October 2, Khashoggi flew to Istanbul and went missing from Saudi consulate till date. The Washington Post described its global opinions writer Jamal Khashoggi as one the "eminent thinkers in their fields and countries. Khashoggi's disappearance has sparked protests all over the world.