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

In the lake, the arms of temples and mosques are locked in each other’s reflections. Agha Shahid Ali, “Farewell” As Kashmiris and non-Kashmiris who aspire for a just, peaceful future for Kashmir and Kashmiris, we envision an inclusive, pluralistic Jammu and Kashmir in which all of its historic inhabitants are able to live with […]

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

Srinagar, Kashmir. September 17, 2020. On Monday, January 13, Kashmir lost one of its beloved human rights lawyers, Mir Shafqat Hussain. Here, Inshah Malik remembers her cousin. Mir Shafqat Hussian was one of the very few human rights lawyers in Indian occupied Kashmir who offered a legal recourse to thousands […]

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

Srinagar, Indian-Occupied Kashmir. September 1, 2020. A mourner was detained by Indian forces in Lal Chowk, Srinagar, during Muharram processions. Photo by Zia Shakeel. On Saturday August 29th, Indian forces targeted hundreds of Shia Muslim mourners with pellet shotguns and tear-gas shells, hitting their eyes, face, arms and other parts […]

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

Srinagar, Indian-Occupied Kashmir. August 21, 2020. Ahmad, a resident of Srinagar, who did not want to be identified with his first name, fears to talk about the situation in Kashmir on social media. Instead, he says he discusses tomatoes, eggplants, and the weather on Twitter as the police have […]

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

Srinagar, indian-occupied Kashmir. August 21, 2020. The Indian government has made a series of ‘claims’ about all the progress it has made in occupied Kashmir since August 2019. Here, we look at some of their claims, and unpack each one. Claim: All Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) holders are automatically eligible […]

Prominent Activists Stand with Kashmir

Worldwide, August 4, 2020. Exactly one year after the Kashmir lockdown, and the day before India revoked Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status, setting into motion demographic change and a settler-colonial project in the occupied territory, Stand with Kashmir has curated a Solidarity Video, a project uniting international, anti-colonial, anti-occupation, and indigenous struggles in solidarity with […]

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

Image from Swarajaya Kashmir’s lakes and rivers, especially the waters of the Indus River system, make up part of the stunning backdrop to the diverse indigenous peoples and wildlife who call Kashmir home. For Kashmir’s settler colonial occupiers, however, wielding control over Kashmir’s rivers is yet another way to cement their control over the region, […]

Pinkwashing and ‘Pride Kashmir’

July 7, 2020. In this piece, an author who identifies as a queer Kashmiri Pandit reflects on the use of pinkwashing through the guise of calls for queer liberation, and the importance of opposing the occupation in any struggle for liberation. In June 2020, the Kashmiri Youth Movement […]

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India’s 10 steps to settler colonialism in Kashmir.

Srinagar, Indian-occupied Kashmir. July 3, 2020. Settler colonialism is both a historical and contemporary phenomenon. Conventionally associated with the genocidal origins of the white settler colonial states of the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, the settler colonial project of dispossession and demographic change is also evidenced by the apartheid state of South […]

Kashmiris React to Domicile Laws

Over the past weeks, India has detailed the process by which Indian settlers will be able to obtain domicile certificates in occupied Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), leading to settler-colonialism and demographic change in the region. The category of ‘Permanent Resident’, which previously protected indigenous Kashmiris’ rights, has been undermined and replaced with ‘domicile.’ The […]

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