Global civil society statement on Myanmar
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We, the undersigned organizations, call on the United Nations Security Council to urgently impose a comprehensive global arms embargo on Myanmar to help prevent further violations of human rights against peaceful protesters and others opposing military rule. In recent weeks, Myanmar security forces have killed hundreds of people, including dozens of children, merely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
Since the February 1, 2021 coup, Myanmar’s military junta has responded with increasing brutality to nationwide protests calling for the restoration of democratic civilian rule. As of May 4, security forces have killed at least 769 people, including 51 children as young as 6, and arbitrarily detained several thousand activists, journalists, civil servants, and politicians. Hundreds have been forcibly disappeared, the authorities unwilling to provide information on their well-being or where they
Church backs plea to protect press freedom in Bangladesh
At least 247 journalists were reportedly subjected to attacks, harassment and intimidation by the government in 2020
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Journalists at work in Dhaka in 2018. On World Press Freedom Day, eight human rights groups issued an appeal to the United Nations to protect press freedom in Bangladesh. (Photo: UCA News)
Father Augustine Bulbul Rebeiro, secretary of the Catholic bishops’ Commission for Social Communication, has joined global rights groups in calling on the United Nations to protect press freedom in Bangladesh, where the media faces increasing government restrictions and journalists are intimidated, abused and assaulted.
7 global rights bodies express concerns over media freedom in Bangladesh
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Seven global and regional human rights bodies have sent a letter to the United Nations Human Rights chief expressing concerns over the situation of media freedom in Bangladesh and urged her office to engage Bangladesh authorities to protect and respect freedom of expression. On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, we write to draw your attention to the escalating human rights violations perpetrated by the Government of Bangladesh, exemplified in part by the increasing crackdown on press freedom and the freedom of expression of journalists, activists and dissidents, the letter said today.
Eight global and regional human rights bodies yesterday wrote a letter to the UN human rights chief, expressing concerns over the state of media freedom in Bangladesh and urging authorities to protect and respect freedom of expression. "On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, we write to draw your attention to the escalating human rights violations perpetrated by the
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