As world is observing the International Women’s Day, today, the miseries of the Kashmiri women at the hands of Indian forces’ personnel continue unabated in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

According to a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of international women’s day, thousands of women are among 96,181 Kashmiris, who have been martyred by Indian troops since January 1989. As many as 682 women have been martyred since January 2001.

The report pointed out that 22,958 women have been rendered widowed and 11,256 molested by the Indian troops.

APHC leaders, Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar, Zamruda Habib, Yasmeen Raja, Farida Bahenji and Chaudhry Shaheen Iqbal in their statements issued in Srinagar urged the United Nations and other relevant global institutions to intervene on urgent basis for mitigation of the sufferings of Kashmiri women.

In Geneva, United Nations human rights chief, during his address at the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, said that in recent months, he discussed the worrying human rights situation in Kashmir with India.  Volker Turk’s comments have unnerved Narendra Modi-led Hindutva government in India, prompting the country’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Indra Mani Pandey, to convey that the reference to the human rights situation in Kashmir was “unwarranted ”.