By News Desk UNITED NATIONS, Geneva—A Kashmir Delegation arrives at the 32nd session of UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva at the worst possible time for India. Protests and resistance against the Indian military occupation is rising. And India’s… Read More ›
Views from Srinagar By Altaf Hussain Wani THE International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) prohibits torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. The Government of India has ratified the ICCPR. India has also ratified the… Read More ›
UNITED NATIONS, Geneva—Kashmir activists and the world’s largest Islamic bloc are coordinating closely in international forums, and this cooperation is set to multiply manifold as the 68-year-old international dispute takes center stage. The Kashmir Delegation to the 31st session of… Read More ›
By News Desk UNITED NATIONS, Geneva—Members of the Kashmir Delegation to UN Human Rights Council floated the idea of a special international envoy to monitor the situation in Kashmir. The suggestion came in a speech delivered by senior Hurriyat leader… Read More ›
By News Desk UNITED NATIONS, Geneva—A human rights defender for Kashmir presided over a Africa development event on the sidelines of UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, where Kashmiri women were presented as an example of how women can… Read More ›
By News Desk UNITED NATIONS, Geneva—Kashmir Delegation to the 31st session of UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) took the message of Nusrat Geelani, daughter of S. A. R. Geelani, the detained Kashmiri professor of Jawahar Lal Nehru University in New… Read More ›
By News Desk UNITED NATIONS, Geneva—Kashmir Delegation to the 31st session of UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is maintaining pressure on India for the gross rights violations by the Indian government and military. In a succession of speeches to the… Read More ›
By News Desk UNITED NATIONS, Geneva—This week, a small delegation of Kashmiri activists attending the 31st session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva showed the limits of Indian diplomacy. What Indian diplomats and government achieves internationally is… Read More ›
By News Desk UNITED NATIONS, Geneva—The courage of the women of Kashmir, Palestine and Western Sahara was highlighted at the UN building in Geneva on International Women’s Day. The African Commission for Human Rights arranged a sideline event parallel to… Read More ›
By News Desk UNITED NATIONS, Geneva—A major event at the United Nations on the exploitation of children in conflicts in the Middle East also focused on Kashmir when a Kashmir activist put the spotlight on India’s role in the occupied… Read More ›