ISLAMABAD – Human Rights Minister Dr Shireen Mazari has written a detailedletter to 18 UN Special Procedures mandate-holders informing them about theviolations of International Human Rights laws being committed by India inOccupied Kashmir.
In her letter, she drew the attention of the UN Special Rapporteurs to thegrave human rights violations in occupied Kashmir.
She wrote that human rights violations include denial of right toself-determination, gender-based violence as a weapon of war,communications shutdown, imposition of curfew, arbitrary arrests, childabuse and religious persecution.
The Minister expressed her concern over the violations and threat offurther gross violations of human rights alongside of ethnic cleansing andgenocide.
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Dr Shireen Mazari urged the UN Special Procedures mechanisms to interveneto stop the violations of International Human Rights laws in IndianOccupied Kashmir, in accordance with their respective mandates.
She urged them to pressurize India to reverse its illegal annexation ofJammu and Kashmir, end the communications shutdown and ensure compliancewith its international human rights obligations.
