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16/07/2020

JKYJA grieved over the demise of Rameez Makhdoomi’s mother, condemns negligence at SKIMS

Srinagar, Jul 16: The Jammu and Kashmir Young Journalist Association (JKYJA) has expressed grief and sorrow over the untimely sad demise of the mother of its founding member and Chief Spokesman Rameez Makhdoomi.

Pertinently, Ms. Afrooza Makhdoomi aged about 63 mother of journalist Rameez Makhdoomi succumbed to the Covid 19 at SKIMS on 15th July 2020.

The JKYJA in a statement said the words can't express how saddened we are to hear about this tragedy, adding, all the members of JKYJA stands with esteemed member Rameez Makhoodmi at this hour of grief.

“This is our personal loss, infact we all are bereaved with the sad demise of Afrooza aunty, the statement reads , while expressing sincere sympathies to Rameez.
Meanwhile, JKYJA strongly condemned the negligence of authorities at SKIMS who did not follow the procedure prescribed for Covid death patients . The Journalist Association said a formal complaint has been filed before the concerned.

16/07/2020

Many COVID-19 deaths go unreported in Kashmir: DAK

Srinagar, July 15 (KNO): Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Wednesday said the actual number of COVID-19 deaths in Kashmir is higher than what is reported.

“Many COVID-19 deaths go unreported in Kashmir,” said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement

“The official count of Covid-19 deaths in the valley is an underestimate and only provides a snapshot of the true death toll virus has taken,” he said.

Dr Nisar said many people with Covid symptoms don’t get tested for the virus because of the fear of stigma and quarantine of family members. “Social stigma makes people hide their illness and keep them away from seeking health care,” he said.

Dr Nisar said people fear that if they die of Covid-19, they will not get the decent burial and few will come to their funeral. “As a result, people are choosing to die at home, unrecorded,” he said.

“Another apparent deterrent to testing is widespread conspiracy theories about the virus. People believe that Covid is a hoax and the virus is fabricated,” he added.

Dr Nisar said while elderly people have the highest rates for hospitalization and death, many are not tested for Covid in hospitals. “Older people don’t develop typical Covid symptoms. In them, feeling weak or confused may be the only sign of having the infection,” he said.

“When patients lack classic signs, health professionals are less likely to think of the diagnosis. This means many patients die undiagnosed,” he added. Dr Nisar said many Covid deaths are hidden among other diseases.

“Many patients with heart or lung disease die of Covid, but their death is attributed to their underlying condition,” he said. Dr Nisar said more than 30 percent of the positive cases may be missed by the RT-PCR test which is used to identify people infected with Covid infection.

“Inappropriate sample collection, taking the sample too early or too late during infection and late processing of the sample can give rise to false negative results,” he said.

19/06/2020

Over 100 Militants killed this year, 30 from Hizb Mujahideen outfit

Malik Sameed

Srinagar, June 19(KNB): Even as the coronavirus pandemic rages across the country, including Jammu and Kashmir encounters still took place at its highest mostly in South Kashmir, as more than 100 militants have been killed this year so far till June 2020 including top wanted Commanders.

According to official data, around twenty seven encounters took place in Kashmir valley since from January 2020 between security forces and militants killing more than 100's of militants including 30 from hizbul mujahideen, 20 from Lashkar, 20 from Jaish while the remaining were from Ansaar Gazwat-ul-Hind and other small militant groups like Albadr, however, a total of 83 militants were killed in the year 2019, since 1990 to 2020, the year 2001 witnessed the highest number of militants 2645 killed.

Kashmir Zone Police tweeted, "IGP Kashmir Shri Vijay Kumar "Team Kashmir" for completing a on the front of operations. ."

The militant commanders killed in encounters this year include, besides Naikoo, Lashkar-e-Taiba militant Haider from Pakistan, Qari Yasir, commander of Jaish-e- Muhammad and Burhan Koka who led Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind — an al-Qaeda “affiliate” in Kashmir.

Pertinently, South Kashmir across the whole valley has witnessed heap of operations than the other districts apart from few foreigners most of the militants killed in the operation were locals.

As of now at least 8 militants have been killed so far in the last 24 hours by security forces in two separate encounters in Pulwama and Shopian districts of South Kashmir, while three militants were killed in Pulwama's Awantipora, five were killed in Shopian.

Earlier, an intense encounter was beholden in Changmulla Handwara area of district Kupwara which lasted for about 8 hours in which one colonel, two army jawans and a police Sub-Inspector were killed.

12/06/2020

World against child labour day: Kashmir fails to fight against Child Labour

Yasmeen Manzoor

Srinagar, June 12(KNB): Despite many laws enacted, Child Labour is still on a constant rise in Jammu and Kashmir besides whole country as hundreds of children every year continue to be exploited for cheap labour affecting their physical, mental, social as well as educational development.

There are an estimated 2.5 lakh children in child labour in J&K of which many are in hazardous work mostly working as conductors, domestic helpers, these children are now at even greater risk of facing circumstances that are even more difficult and working longer hours, as per the recent study conducted by Professor Fayaz Ahmad, registrar at Central University of Kashmir.

“We lost our father two years before, and then I left my studies, as I am the elder one and to meet our basic requirements me and my mother work as maids in house who pay us monthly and also provide us food and clothes sometimes,” Rifat Bashir (12) working as a maid told Kashmir News Bureau

"I have one more sister in my family If the government had provided us some support I would have continued my studies, but alas it doesn't happen and both me and my sister are without education, as we don't earn enough to get admission in some school." she said

While the government has enacted a number of laws to protect the children from such hazardous acts, many laws are being constantly exploited and misused to get children involved in such chores without even being noticed.

The Child and Adolescent Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act of 1986 reads as "A Child is defined as any person below the age of 14 and the CLPR Act prohibits employment of a child in any employment sector including as a domestic help except helping own family in non-hazardous occupations," is often misused where children of below 14 age group get trapped in the vicious cycle of oppression and work as labourers as that of conductors, maids, waiters, dish cleaners and many more.

Unable to straddle both school and work, these children are forced to give up their education and thus many such children are hence deprived of education, a prosperous life even their basic freedom where such children grow up as labourers.

According to a study by the ILO, the majority of the world's child labour (around 71 percent) is done in the agriculture sector, including cotton plantations and rice fields. Around 17 percent are employed as service staff, mainly as domestic workers or in restaurants, and another 12 percent of child labour is spread across jobs in the industry sector, including dangerous activities in mines.

Pertinently, every year June 12 is observed as World Day against Child Labour, World Day Against Child Labour 2020 focuses on the impact of crisis on child labour a joint ILO-UNICEF paper entitled “COVID-19 and child labour: A time of crisis, a time to act” has been released. The paper looks at some of the main ways through which the pandemic is likely to affect progress towards the eradication of child labour.

While talking to Kashmir News Bureau, Muzamil Maqbool Host of podcast Plain Talk with MMB said, "In 2015, United Nations created UNSDG'S also known as global goals to achieve 17 goals by 2030. It was adopted by all member states of UN. But all these goals became clear when UN started targets for sustainable development. Target 8.7 of unsdg plans to stop all forms of child labour by 2025. We only have 5 years and it is now on all of us to help UN and their associated bodies and various local and international ngos. Wherever we see any child under labour working in any hazardous conditions, we must report it to the local child protection officer."

He further added," In Kashmir, hiring domestic help from UP and bihar is common and sometimes due to poverty, many parents send their children to kashmir. We happily accept it and let them work here. The question we all must ask is, Are we doing the right thing by hiring a child as domestic help? Without support from citizens, society and youth in particular, no world body will achieve this goal. Let's pledge to end child labour once for all.

Meanwhile, a Jammu and Kashmir Based NGO (Society for Social Transformation) has come front to reduce the percentage of child labourers by appealing people to donate for them. (KNB)

29/03/2020

Niraj Kumar, IAS, Additional Resident Commissioner J&K New Delhi has appealed JK students struck outside UT to contact on Helpline Numbers👇🏻

+9178278 87143 (M), +9197173 55186 (M), +919810314773 (M), +919971037443 (M), +9199104 70404 (M), 24611210, 24611108, 24615475
[email protected].

25/06/2019

Over 700 militants killed in JK in last three years: GoI

25 June 2019

More than 700 militants have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir over the last three years, Union Home Ministry said on Tuesday.

A total of 113 militants were killed between January and June 16 this year, 257 were killed in 2018, 213 in 2017 and 150 in 2016, taking the total number of those killed during the period to 733, it said.

As many as 112 civilians also lost their lives during this period in the state.

Of them, 15 had died in 2016, 40 in 2017, 39 in 2018 and 18 between January and June 16, this year.

"The government has adopted a policy of zero tolerance towards militancy.

Government forces are taking effective and continuous action in countering militancy.

This has resulted in corresponding change in the number of such incidents, including casualties," Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.

12/06/2019

Amnesty ‘Denied Permission’ For Briefing On PSA In Srinagar

Says ‘Lawless Law’ ‘circumvents criminal justice system in J&K

Srinagar, June 12 (GNS): The J&K Public Safety Act (PSA) circumvents the criminal justice system in Jammu and Kashmir to undermine accountability, transparency and respect for human rights, Amnesty International India said in a statement issued here.

“We have been told that we have been denied official permission to hold the event, citing ‘prevailing law and order situation’,” Amnesty India said in a statement.

Later it sent the briefing –“Tyranny of A ‘Lawless Law’: Detention without Charge or Trial under the J&K PSA”—in an emailed statement to GNS.

The briefing analyses the case studies of 210 detainees who were booked under the PSA, a legislation that allows for administrative detention for up to two years in Jammu and Kashmir, between 2012 and 2018, it said.

“The briefing revisits the PSA in the 42nd year of its existence and studies how it continues to facilitate administrative detentions and violate Indian and international human rights laws. This Act is contributing to inflaming tensions between the state authorities and local populace and must be immediately repealed,” said Aakar Patel, Head of Amnesty International India.

The text of the PSA violates several of India’s obligations under international human rights law, including respecting detainees’ fair trial rights.

“Examining several governments and legal documents of the detainees, the briefing provides a pattern of abuse by J&K authorities. This includes detaining children, passing PSA orders without due diligence and on vague and general grounds, ignoring the limited safeguards under the Act, subjecting individuals to ‘revolving-door detentions’, and using the PSA to prevent release on bail and undermine the criminal justice system.”

Amnesty International India found 71 cases of revolving-door detentions, where authorities had either issued a new detention order, or implicated a detainee in a new FIR, to ensure that they remain in detention. In 90% of the cases analysed, detainees faced both PSA detentions and criminal proceedings in parallel, on the basis of the same or similar allegations.

“The police appear to use the PSA as a safety net, using it to secure the detention of suspects who are released, or likely to be released, on bail. Conversations with the local lawyers suggest that the state police do not favour criminal proceedings as they involve a higher standard of proof and a presumption of innocence,” said Zahoor Wani, who led the research of the briefing for Amnesty International India.

Amnesty India also found that in many cases the grounds of detention mentioned in the police dossiers and in the PSA orders passed by the District Magistrate were identical which demonstrates non-application of mind. Further, regressive amendments to the Act in 2018 have also led to detainees being held in prisons far from their homes, in violation of international human rights standards.

Meanwhile, people who were arbitrarily slapped with PSA and later acquitted continue to face difficulties in obtaining jobs or continuing their education. Amnesty International India calls on the Government of Jammu and Kashmir to immediately repeal the J&K Public Safety Act and other legislation facilitating the use of administrative detentions and ensure that all detainees held in administrative detention are released. Authorities should also provide full reparation to all detainees held in unlawful detention under PSA.

The Government of Jammu and Kashmir should also initiate a prompt, independent and impartial investigation into all allegations of unlawful detention and torture or other ill-treatment in custody, and bring to justice those responsible.

“While the J&K High Court routinely quashes detention orders which fail to comply with procedural safeguards, it does little to tackle the impunity enjoyed by executive authorities. Jammu and Kashmir will elect a new state government in 2019. This government will have a chance to break with the past and show the people of Jammu and Kashmir that their rights matter. It must not waste this opportunity,” said Aakar Patel. (GNS)