This report describes the conduct of the 2004 Jammu and Kashmir parliamentary elections in the context of ongoing military occupation. The report finds that Kashmiris were coerced to vote by armed personnel and that even though coercion was less frequent compared to 2 years earlier, incidences were more common outside the city. 64% boycotted elections and 34% of the population voted. Kashmiri political leaders like Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah, Sayed Ali Geelani, Shahidul Islam, and Javed Mir were obstructed from addressing meetings--the police detained them or placed them under house arrest

Topics: monitoring and analysis of parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir in 2004

Terms: 2004 Jammu and Kashmir parliamentary elections, denial of political rights, denial of right to free and fair elections, denial of right to political self-determination, lack of democracy, denial of right to free expression, denial of right to free assembly, Rashtriya Rifles, Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act (AFSPA), Border Security Force (BSF), election rigging, voter fraud, voter intimidation, forcible voting, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

This statement (one of many over many years submitted to the UN Commission of Human Rights by International Economic Development, Inc. and the Humanitarian Law Project (a U.S. NGO working to protect human rights and promote the peaceful resolution of conflict by using established international human rights laws and humanitarian law)) reprised violations of international law in Indian-Admnistered Jammu and Kashmir and accountability efforts at the UN while decrying the UN's failure to act on its commitments to the people of Kashmir.  It also urged the UN to undertake renewed efforts to bring about a plebiscite in IAJK and assess and address "the overwhelming numbers of humanitarian and human rights violations that have accumulated" in IAJK.

Topics: human rights in Kashmir

Terms: violations of human rights law, violations of humanitarian law, armed conflict, violations of Geneva Conventions, UN Security Council resolutions, failure to implement plebiscite, Indian state propaganda, religious discrimination, racism, victim-blaming, failure of international accountability, failure of international community, international impunity, colonialism, occupation, denial of right to self-determination, denial of justice, racial and religious profiling, right to self-determination, violation of international law, UN Security Council resolutions, risk of war

A written statement by International Education Development to the UN Commission on Human Rights on human rights violations in Kashmir and decrying the Commission's lack of action despite "well-documented, massive and flagrant violations of human rights and humanitarian law" in the Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir.

Topics: human rights and humanitarian law violations at the hands of the military forces in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, failure of international community, States criticizing victims, history of advocacy at UN, Indian reprisals, India-Pakistan conflict 

Terms: escalation of violations, UN-mandated plebiscite, UN Security Council resolutions, Security Council Commission, United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan (UNCIP), right to self-determination, UN Commission on Human Rights, siege, Geneva Conventions, Indian Army, Border Security Forces, Rashtriya Rifles, Special Operations Group, assassination, disappearances, murder, torture, rape, custodial deaths, racism, All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC), use of force, Al Qaeda, stability, item 5

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This statement (one of many over many years submitted to the UN Commission of Human Rights by International Economic Development, Inc. and the Humanitarian Law Project (a U.S. NGO working to protect human rights and promote the peaceful resolution of conflict by using established international human rights laws and humanitarian law)) reprised violations of international law in Indian-Admnistered Jammu and Kashmir and accountability efforts at the UN while decrying the UN's failure to act on its commitments to the people of Kashmir.  It also urged the UN to fulfill pertinent UN Security Council resolutions and assess and address "the overwhelming numbers of humanitarian and human rights violations that have accumulated" in IAJK.

Topics: human rights in Kashmir

Terms: violations of human rights law, violations of humanitarian law, armed conflict, violations of Geneva Conventions, UN Security Council resolutions, failure to implement plebiscite, March 1996 killing of Jalil Andrabi, Rashtriya Rifles, Indian state propaganda, religious discrimination, racism, victim-blaming, failure of international accountability, failure of international community, international impunity, colonialism, occupation, denial of right to self-determination, denial of justice, right to self-determination, violation of international law, custodial killings, custodial torture, UN Security Council resolutions

Amnesty International recorded 70 deaths in custody and extrajudicial killings in the period January to August 2000 alone. The cease-fire in force since 28 November 2000 has not improved the human rights situation in the state as deaths in custody, extrajudicial executions by state agents and unlawful killings by armed groups continue unabated. Between the beginning of the cease-fire and mid-February 2001, some 23 extrajudicial executions have been reported in the media, in 15 of which the Special Operations Group have been implicated.Amnesty International calls on the Government of Jammu and Kashmir to take seriously its obligations under international human rights law to stop the unlawful killings by anyone, be they state agents or members of armed opposition groups and to end the impunity with which they are committed.

Topics: impunity in Jammu and Kashmir, the unlawful killing of Jalil Andrabi in March 1996, the unlawful killings at Chittisinghpora on 20 March 2000 and connected killings, the unlawful killings of Pahalgam and other places on 1 August 2000, the unlawful killings at Haigam on 15 February 2001, human rights obligations of the government of Jammu and Kashmir, obligations of armed groups to abide by minimum standards of humanitarian law, 

Terms: March 1996 killing of Jalil Andrabi, custodial killings, extrajudicial executions, Special Operations Group (OG), excessive use of force, violation of international law, violation of habeas corpus, legal impunity, Border Security Force (BSF), March 2000 Chittisinghpora killings, August 2000 Pahalgam killings, February 2001 Haigam killings, failure to investigate, failure to prosecute, failure of accountability, extrajudicial killing, lack of international access, failure of transparency, failure of international accountability