Two activists from IOK awarded Rafto Prize for onslaught opposite Indian abuse of power
Parveena Ahangar and Imroz Parvez. PHOTO: www.rafto.no
ISLAMABAD: In a first, dual Kashmiri rights crusaders from Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK), Parveena Ahangar and Imroz Parvez, have been awarded Norway’s prestigious Rafto Prize 2017 for their long-term onslaught opposite assault in a doubtful territory, a jury announced.
The dual tellurian rights activists were given a esteem of $20,000 (17,750 euros) during a rite hold in a western Norwegian city of Bergenon, Pakistan’s Foreign Office orator pronounced in a matter on Sunday.
Ahanger, nicknamed “The iron lady of Kashmir”, founded and leads a Association of Parents of Missing Persons after her 17-year-old son was kidnapped by confidence army in 1990. She has not listened from him since.
Her co-laureate, counsel Parvez, founded a Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) that promotes tellurian rights and non-violence. It has documented a authorities’ use of woe in a state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Braving Indian atrocities: Norway honours dual Kashmiri activists with Rafto Prize
“Parveena Ahangar and Imroz Parvez have prolonged been during a forefront of a onslaught opposite capricious abuses of energy in a (disputed) segment of India that has borne a brunt of sharpening violence, militarisation and general tension,” a Rafto Foundation pronounced in a statement.
“Their prolonged debate to display tellurian rights violations, foster discourse and find pacific solutions to a bullheaded dispute in Kashmir has desirous new generations opposite communities,” it added. Since a start of a leisure onslaught in IOK in 1989, tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have been killed in a doubtful valley.
Between 8,000 and 10,000 people have left blank given a commencement of a escalation in a 1980s, according to a Rafto Foundation.
“Conferment of a prestigious Rafto Prize to Kashmiri activists has brought courtesy to a defilement of tellurian rights in Indian assigned Kashmir,” a Foreign Office orator said.
Every year, a non-profit and non-partisan organisation, Rafto Foundation for Human Rights selects a many renowned people in a fields of tellurian rights and democracy from around a universe for conferment of a prestigious prize.
Named after a late Norwegian tellurian rights romantic Thorolf Rafto, 4 past winners of a esteem (Aung San Suu Kyi, Jose Ramos-Horta, Kim Dae-Jung and Shirin Ebadi) went on to win to Nobel Peace Prize.
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