CategoriesPress ReleaseAnnual Human Rights Review 2021 Review: 257 killings, 195 CASOs, 130 residential houses bombed, 80 military operations, 163 freedom fighters killed, 48 Indian occupying forces killed in retaliation, and 46 civilians murdered by the occupying forces. And Indian right-wing regime arrests members of the Kashmiri Civil Society, journalists, and activists. This annual report prepared by…
CategoriesBlogOn November 8, Srinagar, the summer capital of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir was selected among 49 cities worldwide to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO’s creative cities network (UCCN). UCCN secretariat is administered by UNESCO, which ensures the network’s management at the global level. The initiative provides support…
CategoriesPress ReleaseThe webinar, titled ‘Demystifying Kashmir Under Siege’, was hosted by Legal Forum for Kashmir (LFOVK), an advocacy group for Kashmir based in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. India has moved away from United Nation Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, the ongoing situation in Indian Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IOJK) demands global attention, the speakers emphasized. “The most important thing…
CategoriesBlogThe 73 years of military occupation of the UN recognised disputed territory of Kashmir, makes it one of the longest military occupations of modern history.
CategoriesBlogدورحاضرمیں انسانی حقوق محض ایک نعرہ بن چکا ہے۔ انسانی حقوق کی ان پامالیوں اصل سبب انسان کا وہ حیوانی جذبہ ہے جو اسے دوسروں پر ناحق حکم چلانے کےلیے اکساتا ہے۔ یہی وجہ ہے کہ صدیوں سے یہ بحث جاری ہے کہ انسانوں کے ایک دوسرے پر کیا حقوق ہیں؟ بقول سید مودودی: ”…
CategoriesBlogJust two days before Governor Jagmohan Malhotra, backed by the Indian Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) movement, was reappointed in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a massive protest broke out in Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir to control the pro-freedom demonstrations. It has been over three decades since Jan. 21, 1990, when Indian occupying troops under his command…
CategoriesBlogIntroduction: On 5 August 2019, the government of India revoked the special constitutional status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution, and abrogated Article 35A which had allowed it to define who its ‘permanent residents’ are and what rights and privileges are attached to such residency. After the…
CategoriesBlogBi-Annual Human Rights Review (Jan – June 2021) Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir is under unprecedented censorship and this undemocratic forms of muzzling the voices of people has intensified manifold after the revocation of Article 370 and 35(A). The subsequent raids on human rights groups, activists, and journalists have made it more difficult for organizations to…
CategoriesBlogمحمد رفيق شنوارى تدور قضية كشمير – ولا سيما في خضم المحاولات لفهمها من منظور الصراع المسلح – حول حق تقرير المصير. وفقًا لما قاله وودرو ويلسون أنه لا يمكن أن يستمر أي سلام لا يعترف بالمبدأ القائل بأن الحكومات تستمد كل سلطاتها العادلة من موافقة المحكومين ، وأنه لا يوجد حق في أي…
CategoriesBlogBy bringing Hindu temples and relics to the fore, the Indian state and its proponents have only fueled the idea that it is Muslim Kashmiris who are the “exogenous ‘Others.’” In fact, India has crafted Kashmir’s public identity into a Hindu one, as more and more highly romanticized pilgrimages emerge in the Kashmir Valley. Indeed, it was…
