{"id":314,"date":"2004-05-26T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T17:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/05\/26\/suicides-in-kashmir-draw-notice-of-n"},"modified":"2004-05-26T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2004-05-26T17:51:27","slug":"suicides-in-kashmir-draw-notice-of-nhrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/05\/26\/suicides-in-kashmir-draw-notice-of-nhrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicides in Kashmir Draw Notice of NHRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a218'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2004\/05\/22\/stories\/2004052201081300.htm\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">taken notice<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> of the extraordinary number of suicides and attempted suicides in the Kashmir valley:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><EM><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">It has called for a report from the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary with a request to furnish within six weeks, the number of suicides and attempted suicides in the Valley from 1999-2000 to 2003-2004. <\/FONT><\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The Commission asked the Chief Secretary to give the break-up in terms of age, gender and the rural-urban areas of suicide deaths\/attempted suicides. If investigations\/inquiries had established a linkage between militancy in the State and the major causes of the suicides, it should be mentioned in the report, the Commission said.<\/FONT><\/EM><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">According to press coverage, suicides are the second leading cause of death, after militancy-related deaths.&nbsp; The majority of suicides occur in the 16 to 25 years age group.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken notice of the extraordinary number of suicides and attempted suicides in the Kashmir valley: It has called for a report from the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary with a request to furnish within six weeks, the number of suicides and attempted suicides in the Valley from 1999-2000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}