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USCIRF Report: India’s State-Level Anti-Conversion Laws
This issue update examines the common features of India’s 12 state-level anti-conversion laws and explains how those features are inconsistent with international human rights...
Hindutva Abroad
Who Is Afraid of Caste Equity in Canada? (The Wire)
By Chinnaiah Jangam
On March 8, 2023, International Women’s Day, the Toronto District School Board’s trustees voted on a resolution (16 in favour and five against) recognising...
Kashmir
What a string of deaths in one jail says about the state of Jammu and Kashmir’s prisons ( Scroll )
On October 25 last year, Dilshada Begum was supposed to pay a visit to the Kupwara district jail.
Her husband, Mohammad Yousuf Bhat, accused in...
Kashmir
Kunan Poshpora: Nearly 3 months later, family receives missing Rashid’s dead body ( The Kashmiriyat )
On Wednesday, the authorities handed over the dead body of youth, Abdul Rashid Dar, who was missing since December 2022 to his family from...
Kashmir
India revives civil militia after Hindu killings in Kashmir ( The Washington Post )
DHANGRI, India — After seven Hindus were killed in early January in two back-to-back attacks in Dhangri village in disputed Kashmir, former Indian army soldier Satish...
Kashmir
Kashmiri Student Activist Waiting for a Passport Ten Months After Application ( The Wire )
Srinagar: Nasir Khuehami, a student activist from Kashmir, has alleged that the authorities in Jammu and Kashmir are not issuing him a passport even ten...
Kashmir
If the Kashmir conflict is over, why are thousands of our people in jail: Mehbooba Mufti ( The Caravan )
Mehbooba Mufti is the leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party and the last chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu...
Kashmir
Amnesty accuses UK-based firm of ‘gross human rights violations’ in Kashmir ( Middle East Eye )
Bulldozers from British construction equipment giant JCB are being used to commit "gross human rights violations" in Indian-controlled Kashmir, human rights group Amnesty International has said, as Narendra...
Kashmir
Shutdown Observed in Parts of Kashmir Against Ongoing ‘Eviction’ Drive ( News Click )
Srinagar: A partial shutdown was observed in Kashmir valley on Wednesday against the ongoing demolition drive being carried out by the authorities to retrieve state...