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Date: 3 Oct 2012
Seoul: The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) held a forum on < Strategies and challenges for implementing CEDAW’s recommendations in legislative and judicial sector> on 19 September 2012.
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Date: 30 Sep 2012
Ashiq Hussain
Srinagar, October 01, 2012
After nine years of trail, a militant commander turned Hurriyat leader, was acquitted by a Kashmir court of the alleged offense for which the accused was already cleared by Delhi court, years earlier.
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Date: 28 Sep 2012
Srinagar: In Pakistan the judiciary is attempting to provide justice to the family members of those who have been subjected to enforced disappearance. In 2008, the Chief Justice of Pakistan entered into confrontation with the then President of Pakistan for taking a pro-active stance against disappearances. That confrontation ultimately emboldened the judicial system in Pakistan to be more pro-active on human rights issues.
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Date: 26 Sep 2012
Jasim Rasool Basu
Srinagar September 26: (Valley Media Service) Kashmir Journalists Corps (KJC) condemns the assault on one of its fraternity members by police while he was performing his professional duties. Daily Tribune’s principal correspondent Azhar Qadri was beaten by IPS officer Imtiyaz Ismail Parray when he was covering a protest of Nursing students
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Date: 24 Sep 2012
JAMMU, Sept 24: Demanding justice, All J&K Dalit Mandal today held demonstration against harassment of Dalit families in Hatli village in Kathua district, who are being denied water from the well.
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Date: 22 Sep 2012
‘Attack’ on Mushtaq-ul-Islam condemned
Bar to move High Court
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Bar Association has condemned the alleged “attack” on senior pro-freedom leader Mushtaq-ul-Islam by jail authorities in Udhampur.
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Date: 22 Sep 2012
Geneva: International Council for Human Rights with its ECOSOC partner International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM) hosted a roundtable and interactive dialogue – Human Rights in India: Convention against Torture and International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances at the Palais Des Nations – Geneva as a side event to the India UPR at the 21st Session of the UN Human Rights Council. Dr Mirwaiz Muhammad Umar Farooq, Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference was the keynote speaker at the roundtable. He was joined by Barrister A Majid Tramboo, Chairman of ICHR and Permanent Representative of IHRAAM at the UN, Professor Nazir Ahmed Shawl, Chairman of Kashmir Centre London, Dr Ishtiyaq Ahmed, Professor at the Oxford University and Choudhry Pervaiz Ashraf, Cabinet Minister of the AJK Government.
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Date: 20 Sep 2012
Athens (Greece): Lately the Greek Council for Refugees has received successive complaints of illegal arrests of asylum seekers who are arrested in the center of Athens and are thereafter taken to the Attica Aliens Office, where the interviews to examine their applications are held in a rush and in an illegal brief manner.
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Date: 20 Sep 2012
By Mudassir Kuloo
SRINAGAR: A family of Hakbara, Sumbal Sonawari of district Bandipora has alleged that the surrendered militants (Ikhwanis) had thrashed them heavily with iron road and had attacked their one family member with an axe on Monday morning over some land dispute. One of the family member, who was allegedly attacked by the “Ikhwanis”
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Date: 17 Sep 2012
SRINAGAR, Sep 17 (INP: A group of journalists has said that the Indian troops harassed them while they were covering protests in Palhallan in Baramulla district.
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Date: 17 Sep 2012
Clemente Ferrer
Murderer and rapist José Franco de la Cruz was released from prison after serving 21 years of his sentence. Within months of his release, he was rearrested by the police for an alleged sexual assault of a homeless girl. Repeat offenders should be banned from society; their sentence should be life imprisonment.
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Date: 16 Sep 2012
Syed Ali Geelani’s denouncement of killing of Panchs should go in a long way in creating space for ideological tolerance
Panchs and Sarpanchs of Kashmir valley are again the target of unknown assailants. After a series of attacks on them in different parts of Kashmir,
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Date: 14 Sep 2012
Srinagar, Sep 14: A delegation of the Australian High Commission met the Secretary and members of the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC).
The delegation comprising Diana Nelson Counsellor Political at the Australian High Commission and Brendan Hodgson (Second Secretary Political of the Commission), met the SHRC members, Javid Kawoos,
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Date: 13 Sep 2012
Geneva: Kashmir Centre.EU, in association with The International Human Rights Association of American Minorities, today hosted an event entitled Human Rights in India - A Kashmir Perspective at the United Nations here.
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Date: 13 Sep 2012
Victim families, including dead fathers, summoned as witnesses to Nagrota
Srinagar, Sept 13: Army has initiated court martial in the Pathribal fake encounter and has called the victim families as witnesses.
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Date: 11 Sep 2012
Sonika Durani
JAMMU, Sept 11: It was the cauldron of uncertainty back home, which forced 28 households of Rohingya Muslims to flee their native land Burma (Myanmar) and land up in Jammu in search of greener, rather safer pastures for their survival.
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Date: 10 Sep 2012
SRINAGAR, SEP 10: Kashmiri students pursuing engineering in Alfalah School of
Engineering and Technology in Dhauj area of Faridabad district of Haryana were allegedly harassed by the local goons today.
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Date: 7 Sep 2012
Srinagar: GAASH Public Trust organized one day Human Rights and social issues seminar at Delhi Public School Srinagar on 6th of September 2012. More than 300 students and teachers participated in the seminar. The introductory session started with the welcome speech from the compare of the event. Soon after the welcome speech students from Delhi
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Date: 7 Sep 2012
By Nava Thakuria
The media fraternity of Assam has raised voices for a special law for protection of journalists on duty. Taking queue from the August 28 Assam Bandh, which witnessed violence around the State including brutal attacks on duty-bound journalists in many places, various intellectuals and journalist groups have demanded for a special protection act immediately.
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Date: 5 Sep 2012
SRINAGAR, Sep 5: Dr Mohammad Qasim senior separatist leader and Muslim League Chairman has already completed life term and his continuous detention is against law. This was the argument made by Mian Abdul Qayoom, the counsel for Dr Qasim before the High Court that heard the matter.
Qayoom further argued that the overall period of
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Date: 5 Sep 2012
Kashmiris call it “attempt to sustain impunity”
SRINAGAR (AP): The government of Kashmir has rejected wide-scale DNA testing of bodies in thousands of unmarked graves despite pleas by the families of those who disappeared during two decades of fighting in the region.
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Date: 3 Sep 2012
Says life term means ‘incarceration for whole life’ not 20 years
By Marouf Ahmad
Srinagar: The state government on Monday opposed the release of senior pro-freedom leader and chief patron of Muslim League, Dr Muhammad Qasim Faktoo even as his counsel contended
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Date: 3 Sep 2012
By Umar Sultan
Srinagar: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has once again urged government of India to repeal the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that remains in effect in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast.
In a statement released in New York Monday, HRW also asked New Delhi to accept the recommendations by United Nations member states at the UN’s
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Date: 2 Sep 2012
Abdul Hamid Mir
The only tool in the hands of State Information Commission (SIC) i.e., J&K Right to Information (RTI) Act 2009 has been diluted by the State Government to change the former from SIC to SICK ! After the establishment of SIC, common people had a lot of expectations from its functioning. The implementation of RTI Act in its original form,
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Date: 2 Sep 2012
An Indian court has sentenced a senior BJP party member to 28 years in jail for her part in murdering 97 people in the 2002 Gujarat religious riots.
Maya Kodnani, an ex-minister and aide to Chief Minister Narendra Modi, is the most senior figure so far convicted.
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