{"id":7183,"date":"2023-10-09T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T07:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2023-10-09T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T07:38:09","slug":"un-agencies-label-deportation-of-afghan-refugees-as-human-rights-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/un-agencies-label-deportation-of-afghan-refugees-as-human-rights-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Agencies Label Deportation of Afghan Refugees as Human Rights Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (BNA): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have jointly declared the expulsion of Afghan refugees from Pakistan as a violation of human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have urged Pakistan to reconsider this decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both organizations have appealed to Pakistan to continue supporting Afghan refugees, emphasizing that their return should be voluntary, safe, and free from pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNHCR and IOM have also requested other countries to halt the forced repatriation of Afghan citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to UNHCR statistics, there are 3.7 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan, but only 1.3 million possess residency documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This development follows the interim government of Pakistan\u2019s decision to set a deadline for hundreds of thousands of Afghan citizens to leave the country by the end of this month, a move that has elicited global reactions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (BNA): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have jointly declared the expulsion of Afghan refugees from Pakistan as a violation of human rights. They have urged Pakistan to reconsider this decision. Both organizations have appealed to Pakistan to continue supporting Afghan refugees, emphasizing that their [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,80,396,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia","category-latest","category-paksitan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}