Articles
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Kashmir and the Criminalization of Dissent
The recent conviction of three prominent Kashmiri women leaders—Aasiya Andrabi, Fahmeeda Sofi, and Naheeda Nasreen—by an Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in New…
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The Day India’s Walls Became Instruments Against Women
A time when political leaders across the world are promising to work for gender parity, an act of vandalism in Gwalior, India, makes it grimly clear…
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Children’s Rights in Times of Conflict: The Case of Kashmir
The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its one hundredth session in Geneva from 12 to 30 January 2026 at a moment of…
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The Mosque and the Panopticon: Religious freedom under siege in Indian occupied Kashmir
In the Kashmir Valley, faith now comes with a barcode. The occupief Jammu and Kashmir Police’s unprecedented surveillance exercise—collecting granular data on every…
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Reservations and Recruitment: A Tool of Disempowerment in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir
The Indian state’s reservation and recruitment policies in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir have long been a subject of contention, particularly in the context…
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Kashmir, the Right to Self-Determination, the Narrative of Three-Way Fragmentation, and the Global Test of Conscience
Executive Overview The Jammu and Kashmir dispute represents one of the most enduring unresolved questions on the international agenda. Despite repeated attempts to recast…
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Beyond Bullets and Borders: Strategic Silence and Systemic Brutality in IIOJK
The Kashmir conflict has remained a central fault line of South Asian geopolitics, rooted in unresolved territorial claims, competing nationalisms and enduring human…
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The Saffron Shadow Over Education: How Hindutva Uses State Institutions to Discriminate
The recent de-recognition of Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence in Reasi, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, is not merely about failing infrastructure…
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India’s Hydropower Drive and the Weaponisation of the Indus Basin
India’s push to accelerate hydropower projects on the western rivers of the Indus basin is not merely a policy shift, it is a brazen…
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Kashmir: A Forgotten Land, a Forgotten People —And the Cost of Disunity
For more than three decades, Kashmir has lived through one of the gravest, yet least acknowledged, human rights crises of our time. Over 150,000 Kashmiris…