 Association des Chercheurs Iranian in Collaboration with BHRG and Azadi Networks is organizing a Conference in Central London
‘Balochistan’: ‘Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All’
The situation of civil, political, economic, social, cultural rightsof the Iranian Baloch People
Saturday 9 December 2023 – Central London
ACI would like to announce ACI its fifty second international conference dedicated to the plight of the Iranian Baloch People to coincide with the seventy fifth anniversary of UN Human Rights Day with its theme of ‘Dignity, Freedom and Justice for All’.
This one day seminar proposes to discuss the wider dimensions of poverty, multidimensional deprivation and discrimination based on religious, ethnic and linguistic rights to give context to the grievances and challenges facing the Iranian Baloch People in over four decades. Along with the issues concerning discrimination, poverty and human rights, the question we aim to discuss further is the continuous disproportionate use of the death penalty and the systematic use of lethal force against unarmed civilian population leading to many deaths in the Baluchistan region with regard to the ICC Statute and crimes against humanity.
Subjects for consideration in Persian and English include but are not limited to:
Extreme poverty and human rights:
Unemployment and employment opportunities
Housing rights
Access to healthcare
Rights of the Child:
access to education, child marriage, child labour, child soldier
Minority rights: Equality and equity:
Women’s rights
Religious freedoms
Ethnic and linguistic rights
Civil and political rights:
Brutal treatment of civilian population leading to deaths: ‘Crimes Against Humanity’?
Illegal detention, poor prison conditions, unfair trials,
Disproportionate and increasing use of the death penalty.
Political participation/office
This conference is convened in collaboration with Azadi Network and Balochistan Human Rights Group
