|
UN
rights official visits Srinagar
Wednesday January 19, 2011 10:05:01 PM,
IANS
|
|
Related Articles |
|
UN
human rights rapporteur to visit Kashmir Jan 19
United Nations rapporteur on human rights Margaret Sekaggya will
visit Srinagar on Jan 19 to assess the condition of "human rights
defenders" in the conflict-hit Kashmir Valley, a UN official said
Friday.
» |
Srinagar: The United
Nations special rapporteur on human rights, Margaret Sekaggya,
arrived here Wednesday on a two-day visit "to assess the human
rights situation in Kashmir valley," according to official
sources.
This is the first visit of the UN special rapporteur to the
violence-hit Kashmir.
UN special rapporteurs are individuals working on behalf of the UN
within the scope of "special procedures" mechanisms who bear a
specific mandate from the Commission of Human Rights (UNCHR) and
assumed by the Human Rights Council.
Immediately after her arrival, Sekaggya met members of the local
society, human rights activists and families of some victims at a
local hotel.
Members of the local bar association also met the senior UN
official and briefed her about the human rights situation in the
state.
Senior state government officers are also scheduled to meet the
official before she returns to New Delhi.
The visit follows over five-month long deadly summer unrest in the
Valley that has claimed 110 lives and left hundreds others wounded
in clashes.
|
|
Home |
Top of the Page |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Top
Stories |
|
Indian
TV channel claims receipt of illegal Swiss bank details
Even as Wikileaks has threatened to
reveal the names of 2,000 Swiss bank account holders, an Indian
television channel Wednesday claimed it has received "explosive
»
Why
hide names of foreign account holders, asks apex court
No
request from India for secret bank data: Swiss Ambassador
|
|
|
|
Picture of the Day |
|
 |
|
Union
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mrs. Ambika Soni
signing on Calendar, at the Official Launch of the Dainik
Bhaskar- Junior Picasso, 2011 Desktop Calendar, in New Delhi
on January 14, 2011.
(Photo: V.
Rajan) |
|
|
|
|
Most
Read |
|
 New Deoband
Chief's love for Modi fails to get Muslim approval
Rubbish, uncalled for, misleading and far from reality is what
Muslim scholars and elites have termed Maulana Ghulam
Mohammad Vastanvi's
» |
|
Cabinet
Reshuffle: New council of ministers of the Manmohan Singh Govt.
The
following is the reshuffled council of ministers of the United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, headed by Prime Minister
Manmo
»
Feverish speculation ahead of reshuffle Wednesday evening |
|
|
|
News Pick |
|
 Russia's position on Palestinian state unchanged: Medvedev
Russia's position on a Palestinian
state was unchanged from the 1980s, when it recognized a Palestinian
declaration of statehood, visiting
» |
|
Bureaucrats baffled by IAS couple's Rs.300 crore empire
The illegal
assets of over Rs.300 crore amassed by an Indian Administrative
Service (IAS) officers husband-wife duo in Madhya Pradesh was
"mind-blowing", top officials of the state said Wednesday.
"This
» |
|
'Dismiss cop for comparing Mahatma to bribe money'
A police
sub-inspector who was caught in a sting operation comparing 'bribe
money' to Mahatma Gandhi should be dismissed immediately, former Goa chief minister Dr. Wilfred de Souza said here Wednesday.
» |
|
 Interim
Tunisian government sworn in amid protests
Tunisia's new transitional
power-sharing government was sworn in Tuesday, with the exception of
four ministers, including one from the opposition, who
» |
|
7.3
magnitude quake jolts Pakistan, Delhi rocked
Panic-stricken people rushed out of their homes - some of them
reciting verses from the Quran - as a 7.3-magnitude earthquake
shook Pakistan early Wednesday. Two women died and three people
were hospitalised after
» |
|
|
|
|
Comments
|
Quick links