UN experts alarmed by lack of protection for minority girls from forced marriages, conversions

United Nations (UN) human rights experts have expressed dismay at the lack of protection for women and girls belonging to minority communities in Pakistan, saying that they remained vulnerable to forced marriages and conversions. “Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence,” the experts said in a statement issued in … Continue reading UN experts alarmed by lack of protection for minority girls from forced marriages, conversions