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As of 8 August 2024, the National Register of Missing and Disappeared Persons reported up to 116,386 disappeared and missing persons. With the numbers ever rising, this is not just a historical problem.

It has been five years since India revoked Jammu and Kashmir's semi-autonomous status, a decision that plunged the region into a stringent lockdown marked by extensive control over freedom of the press, expression, and politics.

The fruits of the student liberation movement are only beginning to be felt. A decade of brute oppression is slowly coming undone.

On 26 July the United Nations Committee against Torture published its latest review of the situation in Türkiye.

Bangladesh is witnessing a deadly crackdown against student protesters. The heavy-handed response from the authorities has resulted in several hundred deaths of students, journalists and bystanders, as well as thousands being injured.

A new campaign on the Families of the Disappeared coming soon.

Join the vigil at the Embassy of Greece on Friday 14th June 2024 at 6pm

So, when someone asks if it is it safe to go to Kashmir as a tourist, the answer is, yes tourists are safe in Kashmir, but Kashmiris live in fear of a knock on the door.

On the 20th of September 2023, Amnesty International launched a new campaign to help put an end to Algeria’s mounting climate of repression.

Mysha* hasn’t seen her husband for four years. He left their home in Kashmir in 2019, the year of the abrogation of article 370, when Kashmir’s status as India’s only Muslim majority state was removed, downgrading it to two union territories ruled…

In the period just before the fourth anniversary of the revocation of article 370, which deprived Kashmir of its status as India’s only Muslim majority state, downgrading it to two Union Territories ruled directly from Delhi, Kashmiri activists noticed a…

Presidential elections took place in Zimbabwe on the 22nd of August 2023 resulting in victory for incumbent president Emmerson Mnangagwa, from the governing Zanu-PF party. The elections were marked by multiple human rights abuses.

Criticizing the government in Venezuela takes courage. The authorities are infamous for persecuting and harassing journalists and human rights activists, with Venezuela being consistently ranked by Freedom House as one of the least free countries in the…

Jammu and Kashmir is a place where the population is subject to significant human rights violations and daily life is fraught with risk. Learn more...