Sep 17, 2020

Southern Mongolia: Parents, Civil Servants and Teachers Under Pressure to send their Children Back to School

Mongolian parents, the civil servants, party members and teachers of Mongolian descent are under tremendous pressure to send their children to school, says Enghebatu Togochog, UNPO member and Director of Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center. On 1 September 2020, the first day of the fall semester in Inner Mongolia, many schools stood empty as parents kept their children home. Within...

Sep 17, 2020

Southern Mongolia: Parents, Civil Servants and...

Mongolian parents, the civil servants, party members and teachers of Mongolian descent are under tremendous pressure to send their children to school, says Enghebatu Togochog, UNPO member and Director...

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Sep 17, 2020

Gilgit-Baltistan: Pakistan to Make Disputed Territory...

According to a report in the Express Tribune, the Minister for Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Affairs, Ali Amin Gandapur, said on Wednesday 16 September 2020 that Prime Minister Imran Khan would soon visit...

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Sep 16, 2020

Southern Mongolia: More than 5,000 Arrested during...

Protests against the school reform making Chinese the main language of education, and confining Mongolian to the status of a subject, have led to the , some 5,000 Mongolian-speaking students, parents,...

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Sep 15, 2020

Crimean Tatars: The Persecution of Civic Jour...

In light of the Russia-imposed censorship that squeezed out independent media outlets from Crimea, members of the Crimean Tatar community who had not previously worked as journalists have started...

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Sep 14, 2020

East Turkestan: EU Must Do More to Help Uyghu...

Speaking from Munich, Germany, Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress, has stressed the need for Germany and the European Union to do more to help the plight of the Uyghur people of East Turkestan...

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Sep 09, 2020

Balochistan: Region Has Lowest Female Literacy...

Lawmakers, civil society representatives and NGOs in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province have stated that the region has the lowest female literacy rates anywhere in the world, with some women’s...

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Sep 09, 2020

Somaliland: Representative Office Opens in Ta...

Today [9 September 2020] marked a historical day for UNPO members Somaliland and Taiwan, with the former opening a representative office in Taipei. Taiwan and Somaliland have grown closer in recent...

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Sep 08, 2020

Pakistan: Christian Man Sentenced to Death for...

In the latest case of Pakistan's strict religious laws being applied against minorities, a court in Lahore has sentenced a Christian man to death for having committed "blasphemy". Asif Pervaiz, 37, has...

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