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Parveena Ahanger Since the last twenty years, she has been leding the struggel against the enforced disappearances. She stands in a Park every month to fight for the sons of Kashmir
Solidarity of Art As Kashmir continues to be battered by the ruthless armed forces the young generation stands up in solidarity with the victims of the families of enforced disappearance. The youth are a cornerstone of the APDP’s movement against enforced disappearances..
Standing Strong The body long lost, the eyes shut in history The fingerprints of the traces lost in the dust of history Where did the flesh and the bones go? Where did the eyes lose their shine? The dreams once dreamt, the rhythm of life vanished, Vanished is the existence, vanished from the very facing history And they turned out to be history, the unspoken, the unnamed history.
Blurred Visions!!! My eyes could be tired and the images blurring, but my hope is as young as my disappeared son-in-law who went missing 21 years ago. I wait for him at home, I search for his face among the crowds and I continue to raise my voice against the perpetrators of crime of enforced disappearance.
Dying hopes!!! We the mothers, half widows, daughters and sisters of the persons subject to enforced disappearance demand the authorities to wake up from slumber and ignorance and give information about our dear ones. And we will continue to demand it till we breathe our last.
Standing together in Solidarity Standing together in solidarity: On the International Day of Enforced Disappearances students in Sikkim stood in solidarity with the people of Kashmir and protested against the enforced disappearance and oppressive law of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).

India must eliminate root causes of violence and address its consequences holistically, law and order approaches alone are inadequate: WGHR affirms the UN SRVAW’s statement May 3, 2013

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New Delhi, May 3, 2013 – The Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR) welcomes the statement of the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and
Consequences (SRVAW) Ms. Rashida Manjoo at the end of her official country mission to India. The SRVAW highlighted the multiple and intersecting inequalities and discrimination that render women more vulnerable to violence in India, while exacerbating the impact of violence on their lives.

30th May 2015

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At the conclusion of the International Week of the Disappeared which ended on 29^th May 2015, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) would like to pay a humble tribute to the families of the disappeared. We salute and commemorate their struggles, patience and courage for all that they have gone through over a period of last 25 years in bringing justice to their disappeared kins, for bringing the perpetrators of this heinous crime against humanity to justice as well as to sustain a decent life. It is also important to bear in mind that the suffering of the families is not unidirectional, but it violates multiple rights encompassing their everyday life, which includes right to life, right to family life, right not to be subjected to torture or any other form of ill-treatment.

APDP Press Release Pathribal Case Closure- 15th February 2014

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The recent news regarding the closure of Pathribal Fake Encounter Case did not come as a surprise for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Generations of Kashmiris have been witness to extra judicial killings, torture, rape, enforced disappearances, molestation, humiliations and other heinous violations at the hands of the Indian soldiers and their collaborators in Kashmir. Every time a fake encounter is reported here, mass graves are unearthed or a woman raped, it opens up old wounds. The fact that not a single Indian soldier has so far been convicted for these crimes reflects that the tall claims of justice and reparation made by the Indian state and its collaborators are nothing but a tactics to hood-wink the international community and an attempt to cover-up India’s crime against humanity in Kashmir.