Srinagar: Noted social activist and author Arundhati Roy, Indian filmmaker and human rights activist, Tapan Bose are among several intellectuals expected to speak in a Human Rights seminar here on Saturday, organizers—Kashmir High Court Bar Association, said.
A spokesman of the lawyers’ body told said that the organization was holding a daylong seminar on Saturday at Sadder Court complex Srinagar on Human Rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir on the eve of world human rights day.
“Prominent intellectuals, academicians, human rights activists members of civil society and lawyers have been invited to participate,” the spokesman said.
The spokesman said the Bar Association is expecting participation of prominent human rights activists, leading journalists, lawyers and intellectuals including Miss Arundati Roy, Tapan Bose, Vaid Basin, Parvaiz Imroze, Senior Advocate, Z. A. Shah, Ex-Bar President N A Ronga, Advocate Z A Qureshi, Advocate Teesta Setalvad, Dr Hamida Nayeem, Professor Noor Mohammad Baba, Dr Javeed Iqbal, Z G Mohammad, Dr Sheikh Showkat and Miss Qurat-ul-Ain in the seminar.
In this connection, an extra ordinary meeting of the Bar Association, presided over by the Vice President Bashir Ahmad Dar was held and an 11-member organising committee was constituted.
The speakers are expected to express their views on one of six topics mentioned topics including, “Denial of right of self determination to the people of J&K, a basic violation of United Nations Human Rights Charter.”
Other topics according to spokesman include De-militarisation and withdrawal of AFSPA and Disturbed Areas Act from Jammu and Kashmir a way forward for protection of human rights, Role of lawyers, and members of civil society in promotion and protection of human rights in J&K, Attacks on Media and Human Rights Defenders, cause and effects, Juvenile arrests and teen age killings by the forces, a cause of concern and legal remedies and Extra judicial killings and random detentions under PSA, social and legal concerns.
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