Articles
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Human Rights Are Under Attack Worldwide—Kashmir Is No Exception
When the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council opened in Geneva on February 23, 2026, the tone set by global leaders…
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Genocide Watch Sounds Preparation Stage Alarm as India’s Politics of Fear Deepens
There are moments in history when violence does not begin with a gunshot, but with a sentence. In its recently released instalment of the…
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Kashmir: Law, legitimacy and question of human rights
At the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, reaffirmed India’s commitment to democracy, pluralism,…
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Prahhar: Seven Pillars Seven Bars -The Architecture of Occupation
Recently, New Delhi unveiled “Prahhar,” its National Counter-Terrorism Policy, framing it as a “whole-of-government” doctrine anchored in human rights, the rule of law, and the…
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Kashmiri Women: Systemic Sexual Violence and Impunity in a Protracted Conflict
In Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, sexual violence has functioned as a calculated instrument of state policy, deployed systematically by Indian forces’ personnel to…
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Reclaiming the Purpose of the Human Rights Council
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights held sixty-two sessions in Geneva until it was replaced in 2006 by the Human Rights Council (HRC). The…
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Why Kunan Poshpora Must Be Remembered
Every February, the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) remember what the occupying state wants them to forget: Kunan Poshpora. There’s…
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A Test of India’s Judicial Credibility: Delhi Riots and Beyond
The Delhi riots case, nearly six years after the violence, continues to raise questions about India’s judicial credibility and minority rights. The case, involving…
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Kunan Poshpora: From Trauma to Tribunal — A morning or mourning for Kashmir
On the night of 23 February 1991, the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora in Kupwara district, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, were…
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Kashmir and the Architecture of Control: How Colonial Engineering Is Reshaping an Internationally Recognized Dispute
Kashmir is not an internal administrative question, nor merely a border dispute between two nuclear-armed neighbors. It is an internationally recognized conflict, acknowledged as…