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The "Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir: Developments in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir from June 2016 to April 2018, and General Human Rights Concerns in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan" was released on 14 June 2018. [1] The first report was released under Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. [5]
On 14 June 2018 for the first time ever UN human rights council released a report of 49 pages on human rights violations in Kashmir and accused both India and Pakistan on the issue. The report also urges to set up a COI to investigate the issue of human rights violations in Kashmir.
The Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission was [1] an autonomous state body with quasi-judicial powers tasked to investigate any violation of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir, India. [2] The body was constituted in January 1997 [3] by the National Conference government [2] under the Protection of Human Rights Act. [4]
Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, a disputed territory administered by India, are an ongoing issue.The allegations range from mass killings, forced disappearances, [11] torture, [12] rape and sexual abuse [13] to suppression of freedom of speech and bans on religious gatherings. [14]
In 2017, J&K's human rights commission asked the government in Kashmir to investigate the discovery of at least 2,080 unmarked mass graves. Khurram Parvez of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), a human rights group in Kashmir, demanded "an independent commission to do a credible probe on the mass graves". [12]
The United Nations OHCHR reports on Kashmir document a number of human rights violations in "PaK" - "Restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression and association, impact of counter-terrorism on human rights, land rights, restrictions on the freedom of religion or belief and enforced or involuntary disappearances." [8] [9]
Human Rights Watch mentioned that basic freedoms was at risk in Kashmir, [268] and asked India to ensure rights protections in Kashmir and "step back". [ 269 ] [ 270 ] Reporters Without Borders reported that Indian-administered Kashmir is cut off from the world and said, "The state of Jammu and Kashmir became a news and information black hole ...
In October 2011, the Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission asked the J&K government to reinvestigate the reported mass rape case and compensate the victims. [10] A writ petition filed in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in 2013 alleged that more than 30 women had been raped. The charges had not been proved and there had been no progress in trial.