Staff Reporter
Speakers at a webinar hosted by Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR) in Islamabad said that depriving Kashmiris of their inalienable right to self-determination constitutes a serious violation of the international law and the UNSC resolutions that guaranteed this right to them.
The webinar titled “World Human Rights Day: Agony of Kashmiris” was attended and addressed by noted human rights activists, legal experts, political analysts and journalists hailing from different parts of the world.
The speakers included Ms Danielle Khan, special assistant to Dean Eliot A Cohen at Johns Hopkins Paul H Nitze School of Advanced Studies, Carin Jodha Fisher, American human rights activist, Nayeema Ahmed Mahjoor, author and columnist from Srinagar, Irshad Hussain Mir, Kashmir-based journalist, Scottish human rights activist and co-founder of Let Kashmir Decide, Ms Clair Bidwell, Ms Marina Zucca, human rights activist, visiting faculty, Italy, Ms Sehar Shabbir Shah, Mr Todd Shea, Irish American social worker, Ms Shugufta Ashraf, professor at University of Kotli, AJK, and others. The event was moderated by KIIR Chairman, Altaf Hussain Wani.
In his opening remarks the KIIR Chairman, Altaf Hussain Wani, while pointing to the fast deteriorating political and human rights situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir said, India’s illegal and forcible occupation of Kashmir has led to widespread deaths and human rights violations in the territory.
