This report seeks to examine the situation of children in the ongoing conflict armed in Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir (IAJK). It looks primarily at the situation of children in the conflict in IAJK during 2003 to 2017. It demonstrates that serious crimes have been perpetrated against children in IAJK, including killings, arrests and sexual violence.  It also describes the impact of violence on the education of children.  It concludes that children are one of the most targeted groups of state violence in IAJK.

Topics: the nineties (1990 - 2003), assessment of violence against children from 2003 to 2017, children before the law: illegal and administrative detention, sexual violence against children, impact of conflict on the education of children, violence against students, recommendations

Terms: violations of international humanitarian law, custodial torture of minors, custodial killing of minors, custodial rape of minors, enforced disappeareances of minors, recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, arbitrary detention of minors, mass violence targeting minors, denial of humanitarian access, Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), Jammu Kashmir Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), legalized impunity, systematic lawlessness, denial of access to justice, denial of children's rights, orphans, occupation of schools, militarization of schools, attacks on schools, August 1998 Sailan Massacre, February 2006 Doodhipora Massacre, March2003 Nadimarg Massacre, June 1999 Mohra Bachain Massacre, mass killings by Rashtriya Rifles, January 2018 rape and murder of Asifa Bano, killings of minors by improvised explosive devices, killings of minors by artillery near Line of Control, JK Juvenile Justice Act, list of children killed 2003 - 2017

This is a communication of the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances and three UN Special Rapporteurs (on freedom of opinion, human rights defenders, truth, justice and reparations) to the Government of India expressing grave concern regarding the detention of Advocate Parvez Imroz, Patron of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and President of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), as well as three other lawyers, Advocates Kartik Murukutla, Ghulam Nabi Khan and Qazi Irfan, and the police's preventing them from holding prayers and laying a tombstone on the grave of Mr. Atta Mohammed Khan in Bimyar, Chehal, Baramulla, Kashmir.

Topics: mass graves, enforced disappearances, failure to investigate, denial of justice, intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders, denial of right to travel, non-response by Indian Government, impunity

Terms: arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, Parvez Imroz, Kartik Murukutla, Ghulam Nabi Khan, Qazi Irfan, grave-digger Atta Mohammed Khan, police harassment, unmarked graves, denial of justice, state impunity

This report by The Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society finds that there was “an upward surge in human rights abuses” in Kashmir even after mass abuses in the year prior (2016).

Topics: killings, violence against women, enforced and involuntary disappearances, unknown and unmarked mass graves, probes, using civilians as human shields, torture, use of pellet shotguns, arrests and detention, impunity, the return of cordon and search operations, persecution of Kashmiris outside, assaults on media, banning of TV channels, restrictions on internet and social media, curbs on religious freedom, curbs on freedom of movement and assembly, surveillance, vandalism of civilian property, killings and harassment of political activists, targeting families of militants and policemen, state human rights commission, suicide and fratricides in armed forces

‍Terms: cordon and search operations (CASO), State Human Rights Commission (SHRC), custodial torture, killing of Burhan Wani, violation of right to freedom of religion, violation of right to freedom of assembly, excessive use of force, Border Security Force (BSF), Rashtriya Rifles, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), students protests, assault, denial of academic freedom, closure of educational institutions, suppression of journalism, attacks on journalists, Kamra Yousuf arrest, human shield, shotguns, pellet guns, enforced disappearances, killings, failure to investigate, failure of accountability, Tufail Mattoo probe, Koul Commission, suppression of expression, Tihar Jail, assaults on Kashmiri prisoners, UN High Commissionr for Human Rights, International Committee fo teh Red Cross, Edward Paul Comiti, cross-LOC shelling

This report by the International Federation of Journalists highlights the issues and challenges faced by reporters in Kashmir, including killings, attacks, intimidation and threats. Twenty-one journalists have been killed in the past 30 years. Laws like the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) and the Public Safety Act 1978 (PSA) allow restrictions to be placed on the media. In recent times, internet shutdowns and censorship have also restricted information flow and the rights of journalists to report.This situation report on Kashmir is based on meetings with journalists, young reporters, press photographers, editors and media owners in Kashmir in November 2017.

Topics: context, emergence of independent media, journalists risking life and limb, the need for professionalism, access to information, government control, organizing for journalists’ rights
Terms: denial of the right to free speech, denial of the right to free press, extrajudicial killings, Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), Public Safety Act (PSA), government censorship, government control of information, information blockades, media shutdowns, internet shutdowns, arbitrary ban of Kashmir Reader in October 2016, death of Sahaf Siddiqui in 2014 floods, September 2016 blinding of Zuhaib Maqbool, September 2017 arbitrary detention of Kamran Yousuf, National Investigation Authority (NIA), online abuse and intimidation

This is a report by the Press Council of India (a self-regulatory watchdog of the press, for the press and by the press, that operates under the Press Council Act of 1978) to examine a report of Interlocutors on Media and Media Scenario of J&K. This report summarizes the concerns expressed by the journalists and other stakeholders (Chief Minister, Governor, State Officials, Commanders of Army and Paramilitary forces etc.) interviewed regarding the functioning of the media in Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir and provides recommendations to the Government. 

Topics: journalist’s rights in Kashmir, protection of journalists, barriers to accreditation, cooperation from government and state media, discrimination faced by journalists small and medium organisations, access to journalists, recommendations to government

Terms: journalism, right to free expression, access to information, social rights, political rights, right to a free press, protection of journalists