Geneva, Sept. 10 -- A protest exhibition held at Geneva's Broken Chair monument has drawn global attention to what organisers described as the "silent genocide" of religious minorities in South Asia, particularly in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The three-day exhibition, organised by Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) from September 8 to September 10, coincided with the UN Human Rights Council's session and aimed to confront the international community with what it called undeniable evidence of systematic persecution.

According to a press release by the GHRD, at the heart of the protest was a striking poster display that laid bare a series of human rights atrocities committed against religious minorities. The images were graphic and painful,...