Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply PAK 2/2013 22/03/2013 Pakistan JAL Discrimination against women in law and in practice; Education; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Violence against women; 25/03/2013 Allegations of forced cessation of activities of a human rights non-governmental organization working on, inter alia, women’s rights in Gilgit-Baltistan. According to the information received, on 25 February 2013, the Home Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan, upon reception of a letter from the Home Department of Gilgit-Baltistan, issued an order to deputy commissioners and police officers of various districts to stop all activities of AGHE-Pakistan. This decision was allegedly taken due to pressure from religious extremist groups, which had previously made threats to members of the NGO to compel them to stop working on women’s rights and girls’ education. AGHE-Pakistan has reportedly been the target of a defamation campaign by sectarian and fundamentalist groups which publicly labeled the NGO as a foreign organization; a number of government agencies reportedly exerted pressure on the organization to stop various projects funded by foreign donors. LVA 1/2013 25/03/2013 Latvia AL Racism; Allegations that a draft law commemorating persons who fought along with the German Nazi Army was proposed to the Latvian Parliament on 22 November 2012. According to the information received, the draft law grants a number of benefits via the establishment of the “Status of a Person Conscripted during the Second World War” to Latvian veterans who fought, voluntarily or not, whether for the German Nazi Army or the Soviet Army between 5 August 1940 and 8 May 1945. Non-citizen veterans who fought during the same period, the majority of which allegedly belong to the Russian speaking minority in Latvia, are excluded from enjoying that preferential status. Furthermore, allegedly a public demonstration was organized on 16 March 2013 in Riga to celebrate the Latvian veterans who fought with the Nazi armed forces during World War II (WWII). A/HRC/24/21 23