BNM Digital Truck | New York | 25 September 2026
During UNGA 81, BNM took the Balochistan issue onto New York’s streets. A digital truck moved through busy roads and public spaces, carrying messages on enforced disappearances, military actions, arrests of activists and women, destroyed homes, and the plunder of natural resources.
The aim was simple: put Balochistan in front of diplomats, journalists, and the city itself and break the silence.
Sami Baloch, President, BNM USA: the campaign was meant to take Balochistan’s message to as many people as possible, and to tell the world what is happening.
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BNM Protest at the UN | New York | 25 September 2026
Outside UN Headquarters on First Avenue, BNM held a protest during the 81st UN General Assembly. Demonstrators raised banners, chanted “Free Balochistan,” and presented a tableau on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
The protest highlighted military actions, thousands of forcibly missing persons, the detention of BYC leaders, women and rights activists, collective punishment, destroyed homes, and displaced communities.
Samiullah Baloch, President of BNM USA, and others addressed the gathering. BNM called on the UN to end its silence and take immediate action.
The demonstration ran from 12 noon to 3 p.m., as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addressed the General Assembly.
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🎥 Sohail Abro, Chairman of the Jeay Sindh Freedom Movement, speaks about the Geneva event and the collaboration between Sindhi and Baloch activists.
He discusses the shared concerns raised by Sindhi and Baloch representatives and expresses the view that Sindhis and Baloch seek freedom and do not wish to remain part of Pakistan.
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Sarang Hyder, Coordinator of Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh – Europe Chapter, speaks about missing persons in Sindh and Balochistan, highlighting the concerns surrounding enforced disappearances and the impact on affected families.
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BNM Digital Truck Campaign in New York: An Effort to Raise Global Awareness of the Situation in Balochistan
Saturday, 26 September 2026 | #BNMinUSA
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On Friday, as part of its campaign to raise international awareness about Balochistan, the Baloch National Movement (BNM) ran a promotional campaign in New York City using a digital truck. The campaign was held during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly and sought to bring the human rights situation in Balochistan and the demands of the Baloch nation before the international community.
During the digital truck campaign, messages and promotional material on Balochistan were displayed on digital screens as the truck moved along busy roads and public places across New York. The aim was to draw the attention of international representatives, journalists, residents, and participants in the UN session to the situation in Balochistan.
The campaign highlighted human rights violations in Balochistan, enforced disappearances, the arrest of political activists and women, military actions, the destruction of homes, the exploitation of natural resources, and the environmental problems arising from that exploitation.
The messages shown on the digital truck stressed global awareness of Balochistan, an end to enforced disappearances, and raising a voice for the rights of the Baloch nation. Through this publicity drive, BNM sought to place the Balochistan issue directly in New York’s urban environment and before an international audience.
The digital truck campaign was part of BNM’s wider global awareness effort, through which the organisation highlights Balochistan’s political and human rights situation in international cities and before global institutions. Holding the campaign in New York during the UN General Assembly was significant because political representatives, diplomats, journalists, and other international figures from around the world were in the city at the time.
BNM USA Chapter President Sami Baloch said the main purpose of the campaign was to take messages about Balochistan to as many people as possible through digital means and to inform the international community about the situation in Balochistan.
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VIDEO | BNM’s Global Diplomatic Campaign for Balochistan Continues in Geneva
Participants share their views and reflections on BNM’s ongoing international diplomatic campaign for Balochistan.
Featured: Lakhu Luhanan
Chairman -World Sindhi congress- uk
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The UN system too often shuts out peoples whose rights are violated: Antonio Stango addresses the 12th Balochistan conference
Friday, 25 September 2026 | #BIC12
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Human-rights expert Antonio Stango, addressing the Baloch National Movement’s (BNM) 12th Balochistan International Conference, said the gap between the theory of international human rights and the reality of their violation is widening, and that peoples whose collective rights are taken from them still too often do not get access to United Nations rooms.
Antonio Stango, president of the Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) and professor of international organisations and human rights at Rome Link Campus University, speaking at BNM’s conference in the Geneva Press Club, further said he had spent most of his life working on this subject as a civil-society expert and had not remained confined only to academic circles.
He said that on the one hand we should study the theory of international human rights thoroughly, and on the other we should look at what the reality is. More and more often the reality of respect for human rights or rather, the reality of human-rights violations is very far from the theory.
He said this is true for individuals and for peoples as well. Most of you have been victims of specific violations of the rights of the Baloch nation.
He pointed to those provisions that on paper protect the rights of groups who share a language, history, religion or other ethnic features, including Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He said states have begun to forget these articles.
He said that in Europe history has mostly been understood as the history of Western empires. Some speakers mentioned Pakistani imperialism. This is something we in Europe do not know. People read only a few headlines. They open television and social media and see titles and slogans, which do not go deep into the major problems of our planet.
He said when it is a matter of millions of people whose collective rights have been systematically violated for decades, I believe this should be a concern not only for those directly affected, but for all of us.
He said human rights are universal and belong to every person from birth. Authoritarian governments of different political types reply that rights are universal, but that they should be applied in a “regional or relative” way. In his view, relativism is a major danger to respect for human rights.
In that connection, citing figures given by other speakers at the conference, he said that in recent years there have been hundreds of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, while over a longer period tens of thousands of people in Balochistan have been forcibly disappeared and thousands have been killed. He said millions of people live in misery, even though their historical land is rich in natural resources.
He said engagement with the UN system is both necessary and difficult. It is no coincidence that the meeting is being held at the Geneva Press Club, not in the nearby United Nations conference hall. I suspect some governments would oppose holding such a meeting there.
Recalling the organisation of UN side events for non-governmental organisations, he said that when representatives of peoples whose collective rights have been violated are invited, official representatives ask why they are in the room. They are terrorists. They should be imprisoned; they should not be allowed to speak at a UN forum.
He said there is a diplomatic confrontation with the UN system, even though that system in theory at least allows every voice to be heard and should give every people the chance to speak about their conditions.
He said he fully agreed with the point put to the conference: there is no lasting peace without justice; there is no reconciliation without trust.
He said we all share this need and this strong hope that there will be peace in your country as well, as in other parts of the world. But we know there can be no peace without justice.
He said that about thirty years ago he was part of the movement that helped create the International Criminal Court in The Hague. One organisation in that movement was called No Peace Without Justice. It still exists, and work still remains.
He said more states are leaving that court because governments fear being judged. In his view the court does not decide on a political basis. It hears only the gravest international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and, in some cases, aggression. States should not be afraid of standing before international justice.
He also mentioned the theoretical possibility that a person can be tried for crimes against humanity even in a state of which he or she is not a citizen. He said: “International justice must work. A great deal remains to be done to reach effective international justice.”
Restating his commitment, he said FIDU and the Italian Helsinki Committee want close cooperation between civil society, international organisations and national liberation movements, however difficult that may be.
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Muheem A. Rahim shares his views during the Baloch National Movement (BNM) Photo Exhibition and protest at the Broken Chair monument in Geneva, highlighting the ongoing human rights situation in Balochistan before the international community.
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Hasa Bejjar shares his views during the Baloch National Movement (BNM) Photo Exhibition and protest at the Broken Chair monument in Geneva, highlighting the ongoing human rights situation in Balochistan before the international community. #𝗕𝗡𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗨𝗡𝗦𝗲𝗽𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 #𝗕𝗡𝗠𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗖𝗮��𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 #𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗕𝗡𝗠
Shay Jami Baloch shares his views during the Baloch National Movement (BNM) Photo Exhibition and protest at the Broken Chair monument in Geneva, highlighting the ongoing human rights situation in Balochistan before the international community.
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