CategoriesPolicy BriefUnited Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners: Prisoners shall be required to keep their persons clean, and to this end they shall be provided with water and with such toilet articles as are necessary for health and cleanliness. United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women…
CategoriesBlog15 years after the horrendous rape and murder, the Indian state continues to erase our memory,
CategoriesAcademic Article BlogAs the world marks another International Women’s Day, the global spotlight turns towards acknowledging and celebrating the remarkable achievements, resilience, and contributions of women across the world.
CategoriesBlogKashmir has long served as a crucible for the Indian state’s experimental endeavours. Since the dilution of the region’s semi-autonomous status in August 2019, this beleaguered land, bereft of the rule of law, has increasingly become a theatre for the implementation of measures entirely foreign to modern democracies.
CategoriesBlogSyed Ali Shah Geelani, a revered leader in the Kashmir resistance movement, was born in Zurimanz Bandipora, north of Kashmir.
Download report The first six months of 2023 January-June saw a new trend of state repression and counterinsurgency operations in the war-trampled region of IOJK. On the ground, the violations of International Human Rights law (IHRL) and International Humanitarian law (IHL) led to appalling human tragedies. International response against these ‘Atrocity Crimes’ was inconsistent, as well as other patterns…
CategoriesBlogMohammad Ashraf Sehrai achieved martyrdom on May 05, 2021 after Indian state murdered him under custody in Jammu part of the UN-designated disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Shaheed Sehrai, 77, was put under custody by India in July 2020 and imprisoned in a jail in Udhampur district, some 300KM away from his residence in…
CategoriesBlogIndia’s recent decision to host a G20 meeting in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir has sparked controversy and raised concerns among the international community. This move by the Narendra Modi-led central government is seen by many as a disregard for international law and United Nations resolutions regarding the Kashmir conflict. Critics argue that…
CategoriesBlogIn the larger discourse of direct , structural and cultural violence, women in this occupied region are often neglected.
CategoriesBlogOn 11 February 1984 a 45 year old Kashmiri man Maqbool Bhat, considered to be architect of Kashmir’s first armed rebellion, was sent to gallows inside India’s infamous detention centre Tihar Jail, west of New Delhi, the capital of the Indian state.
