May 12th - A gathering in Toronto remembered Mir Gul Khan Naseer, the revolutionary poet of Balochistan, and paid tribute to a great son of the soil for his exceptional literary work and political struggles dating back to the 1930s. Baloch Human Rights Council (Canada) hosted the event; attended by Baloch, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Bangladeshi, and Ahwazi communities to express solidarity with the Baloch struggle for freedom and rights.

A stable and peaceful Balochistan will utilise its own natural resources, and create the right circumstances for building pipelines to transport oil and Gas to the international market, which in turn will help economic growth and bring stability to the region and the world.

Given the regime's fear of uprising by oppressed nationalities people against open discriminations, it is using its most fearful instrument of forceful confession and execution in the regions of oppressed nationalities.

It is a great challenge to implement the declaration in practice. The Islamic regime of Iran has yet to recognize Iran's different ethnic minorities with cultural, religious and linguistical differences such as the Ahwazi Arabs, Azerbaijani Turks, Baloch, Fars, Kurd, Lur and Turkmen as well as Bahai and Yaresani, as equal in their collective rights.

Young Baloch women face multiple forms of discrimination being women, Baloch and Sunni Muslims. A reality coloured by state gender-biased laws and traditional gender expectation.

The third Baluch political prisoner Abul Basit, a social activist and a promoter of ‘Human Rights & Democracy', was reportedly very active on internet. He used to advocate justice, Human rights and democracy in Baluchistan.

BRUSSELS: Noordin Mengal and Nasser Boladai, representatives of the Baloch in Pakistan and Iran, respectively, made a three-day visit to the European Parliament in Brussels to raise awareness of the continued human rights abuses against Baloch people in both countries, and to urge the European Union to speak out against the continued systematic suppression exerted upon them by the Pakistani and Iranian regimes.