The Hague, The NetherlandsIn a significant show of international solidarity, four United Nations human rights experts have jointly raised alarm over the unresolved disappearance of Mr. Lok Nath Acharya, a prominent Nepali-speaking Bhutanese human rights defender, who went missing in 2014. The action follows sustained advocacy by the Global Campaign for the Release of Political Prisoners in Bhutan (GCRPPB), in collaboration with Ms. Srijana Acharya, daughter of the disappeared human rights defender. Mr. Acharya was a vocal advocate for the rights of Bhutan’s Nepali-speaking ethnic minority, tens of thousands of whom were forcibly expelled from Bhutan in the early 1990s. As a member of the Human Rights Organization of Bhutan, he worked in exile to document and expose human rights violations in Bhutan. On 16 October 2014, Mr. Acharya traveled to West Bengal, India, to attend a human rights meeting.