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New ‘Kashmir Press Club’ to be Established in Srinagar

Why is india Creating Unemployment in Kashmir?

Collective Punishment: India’s Economic Model in Kashmir

indian railway and infrastructure projects will dispossess Kashmiris of their land, orchards

A Formula 4 Race Against Time: The Politics of Settler Colonial Time

India is Renewing Election Propaganda in Kashmir

indian Company, Jaipur Rugs, is Complicit in india’s Settler Colonization of Kashmir

Colonizing Journalism – India is Planting Imposter Journalists in Kashmir

Manoj Sinha – Lieutenant Governor of Indian Settler Colonialism in Kashmir

Surveillance Census – JK Police Launches Drive to Collect Personal and Sensitive Information of All Kashmiris

Sainik Colonies: india Intensifies Its Settler Colonial Project in Kashmir

india Incentivizes Spying Against Kashmiri Resistance

Indian Army Tortures 3 Kashmiris to Death in Custodial Killing.

“Smart” Settler Colonialism – The Srinagar Smart City Project

Amarnath Yatra: Use of Religious Pilrimage for Settler-Colonization

The Enforced Disappearances of Kashmiri Writing

Raids and Passport Suspensions – Kashmir’s Civil Society Under Attack Again

By hosting G20 Tourism Meeting in Kashmir, India is seeking international normalization of its settler-colonial project

Surveillance State on Speed: Now India Plans to Issue Unique IDs to Kashmiri Families

India is grabbing land in Kashmir and evicting people from their homes

Fests: Stealthy Normalization of indian Occupation in Kashmir

india is Colonizing Kashmir’s Economy

Under Barbed Wire: Religious Freedom in indian-Occupied Kashmir

From VDCs to VDGs – A Legalised Network of Armed Gangs in indian-occupied Kashmir

india is coercing Kashmiri academics to submit and self-censor

india’s Independence Day Circus in indian-Occupied Kashmir

Dear Masaba, Why Did You Film In Occupied Kashmir?

The Most Militarized Pilgrimage: Amarnath Yatra.

Uncovering india’s Propaganda Movie “The Kashmir Files”.

The Case for Yasin Malik.

Who arms India’s occupation in Kashmir?

Here is how Dubai actively facilitates India’s settler colonization of Kashmir.

An interview with the sole survivor of the Gowkadal Massacre.

India is arresting Kashmiris for anything & everything under the “UAPA law”.

Who was Bipin Rawat, the war criminal?

India’s systematic torture of Kashmiris.

Stories of the disappeared in Kashmir.

Ten years after his killing, Tufail’s family continues to mourn the loss

This is the story of Farzan Sheikh — a young Kashmiri who was blinded after Indian armed forces struck him with pellets. Twice.

Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Over 170 Academics from Around the World Demand India Restore High-Speed Internet, Release Kashmiri Political Prisoners

Statement on Passing of Syed Ali Shah Geelani (1929–2021)

Enforced disappearances in Kashmir.

Tourism in an Occupied Land: Of ‘Tulip Festivals’ in an age of Settler-Colonialism in Kashmir

A Statement of Solidarity with Hongkongers

This woman is older than the Indian state. At age 108, India is evicting her from her home.

After business losses, Kashmiri man puts kidneys on sale

Stories of torture.

“Homeless in Our Homes”: Nomadic communities in Kashmir face dispossession Pahalgam, Indian Occupied Kashmir

“He was killed in cold-blood”: A Mother Speaks of the Brutal Killing of Her Son, Abid, by the Indian army

‘I cannot forget the face of my mother’, says son of woman killed in cold-blooded murder in Kashmir on Wednesday

Stand with Kashmir Statement on Kashmiri Pandits and the Ongoing Aspiration for a Pluralistic Jammu and Kashmir*

In Memory: Mir Shafqat Hussain, the People’s Lawyer.

I was at the Muharram processions in Kashmir that the Indian army fired upon. Here’s what I saw.

Young Kashmiris on What it Means to be Silenced on Social Media

Unraveling ‘Naya’ Kashmir: Fact-Checking the Claims of the Indian Government

Prominent Activists Stand with Kashmir

Understanding the role of Water in India’s occupation of Kashmir

Pinkwashing and ‘Pride Kashmir’

India’s 10 steps to settler colonialism in Kashmir.

Kashmiris React to Domicile Laws

Fill in the blanks, Dear Nazir!

Settler-colonialism: A Process of Dehumanization and Evisceration

Why Drabu deserves a D- for his latest article on Kashmir

In this village in Kashmir, women can’t afford to sleep.

A Response to Pratap Bhanu Mehta (and the Indian liberal intelligentsia)

India’s Top Diplomatic Moments Since August 2019

The new domicile law is India’s plan to change the demographics of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir

India’s slowing of the internet in Kashmir places 8 million people at risk of COVID-19

Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Over 170 Academics from Around the World Demand India Restore High-Speed Internet, Release Kashmiri Political Prisoners

The Case of Collaborators in Kashmir: Integral to Occupation & Colonization

Dear John, how could you leave out Kashmir from your segment on Modi?

A 15-year-old Kashmiri Boy’s 70+ Days in an Indian Jail

Harvard: Say No to Settlements and Ethnic Cleansing in Kashmir

Kashmiri college student: ‘The Indian government is crushing our future’

“I collapsed outside the jail…I could not believe that my son was taken thousands of miles away”

Stand with Kashmir Statement of Solidarity with Protesters in India

Indian General Bipin Rawat argues for internment camps for Kashmir’s children. This is not the first time the general of the colonial state has made such vile comments.

Testimonies from Kashmir students under siege

A Kashmiri Perspective of Solidarity and the Protests Across India

Here’s what happened when a Kashmiri Muslim asked Hindu nationalists tough questions.

Why is Rutgers University hosting an Islamophobe and a sexual predator to talk about Kashmir?

“If freedom is what they want, freedom is what they should have”: Arundhati Roy on Kashmir

Kashmiri voices are growing: The message from the Congressional hearing

Congress continues to hold the spotlight on India for abuses in Kashmir

And so it begins. India’s settler-colonial project in Kashmir has arrived.

What did the far-right European lawmakers see in Kashmir?

Showing up for Kashmir

This Diwali, I’m lighting a candle in solidarity with Kashmiris

Kashmir is heard on Capitol Hill

Kashmiri families have been resisting the Indian occupation for three generations: Here’s my family’s story.

SAR Geelani is no longer with us, but his spirit lives on

Kashmiris in 60 cities worldwide mark 72 Years of Resistance against Occupation

Are women, LGBTQ+ in Kashmir better off since India’s revoking of Article 370?

‘Human Rights’ Panelist Aarti Tickoo Singh will whitewash India’s crimes in Kashmir

Even as the Kashmir conflict has aged, I’m witnessing the birth of a new movement

Here’s what it is like to be a journalist in Kashmir today

Dear NYT, why would you give Modi a platform to talk about Gandhi?

Black Lives Matter activist: Why we stand with Kashmir

I will never forget the chants of ‘Azadi’ in Times Square

Press Release: Stand With Kashmir extends appreciation and thanks to the people of Punjab

Gates Cambridge Scholars: Please Do not honor Modi

Dear guest speakers of the Gates Goalkeepers event: Don’t sanitize Modi’s violent political agenda

The Raw Mango campaign is precisely how India views Kashmir

OUR CAMPAIGNS

NO ARMS TO INDIA

DECOLONIZE KASHMIR

RELEASE KASHMIRI PRISONERS

WHO WE ARE

STAND WITH KASHMIR

Stand With Kashmir (SWK) is a Kashmiri diaspora-driven independent, transnational, grassroots movement committed to standing in solidarity with the people of Indian occupied Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh (henceforth referred to as “occupied Kashmir” or “Kashmir”) in ending the Indian occupation of their homeland and supporting the right to self-determination of the pre-partition state of Jammu and Kashmir.

SELF-DETERMINATION

DEMILITARIZATION

HUMANITARIAN RIGHTS

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

END TO SETTLER-COLONIALISM

END TO REPRESSION

INDIA’S SETTLER-COLONIAL PROJECT

TIMELINE

August 1, 2019
August 5, 2019
August 16, 2019
September, 2019
October 17, 2019
December 12, 2019
February, 2020
March 31, 2020
April 24, 2020
May 8, 2020
May 15, 2020
May 18, 2020
June 16, 2020
June 22, 2020
June 25, 2020
June 29, 2020
June 30, 2020
July 7, 2020
July 11, 2020
July 17, 2020

August 1, 2019

35,000 additional Indian troops stationed. Tourists asked to leave, schools and colleges taken over by Indian forces, Kashmiris asked to stock food for 4 months

August 5, 2019

Abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A Kashmir’s special status and limited autonomy revoked. 8 Mil+ people made incommunicado

August 16, 2019

4,000+ Kashmiris detained. Genocide Watch releases an alert over Kashmir

September, 2019

Govt. issues order for coal mine auctions in J&K. For the first time, outsiders are invited to participate

October 17, 2019

Forest Advisory Committee diverts 271 hectares of forest land for ‘development’ projects

December 12, 2019

57,000 acres of land identified for setting up industrial estates

February, 2020

Mining Auction is held online. Locals struggle to participate as there is no internet in the Valley. 100% mining rights from Srinagar go to outsiders. Water Power Department renamed to a Hindi name

March 31, 2020

New Domicile Law introduced extending residency to non-locals meeting a criteria

April 24, 2020

Indian army occupies Kashmiri land at increased rates

May 8, 2020

Domicile status becomes eligibility condition for admissions to educational institutions

May 15, 2020

New Media Policy that seeks to create the “sustained narrative on the functioning of the government in media” introduced

May 18, 2020

Process of obtaining domicile & application defined. Process sped up by introducing fines for approving party if domicile certificates are not issued on time

June 16, 2020

The office of the excise commissioner identifies areas where liquor shops will be set up

June 22, 2020

J&K Forest Department becomes a government owned corporation. The government can now sell public land to private entities, including foreign corporations

June 25, 2020

4,000,000 Domicile certificates issued. India moves ahead and launches e-applications (inaccessible to Kashmiris blocked from the internet)

June 29, 2020

Permission granted for the entry of scores of non-local brick kiln laborers into Kashmir during COVID

June 30, 2020

Contractors begin mineral extraction without environmental clearance. Outside businesses are actively and without consequence flouting environmental regulations

July 7, 2020

Petition filed to make Hindi official language. High Court issues notice to Administration

July 11, 2020

India Inc Hosts a panel on Kashmir Advertising it as “Land of Opportunity” for a Global Virtual Investment Summit

July 17, 2020

New Housing Policy introduced that aims to build 200k units for new settlers

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