On International Women’s Day, observed every year on March 8, Kashmiri women on Tuesday swarmed Press Enclave Srinagar to raise their voice against social crimes, atrocities that are prevalent in the society. Wearing white head bands with “Association of Parents of Disappeared persons” written in black, a group of women staged protest to draw attention of authorities and to seek information about their loved ones, who have vanished, presumed dead or imprisoned without trial or record. Many among these women who husbands have disappeared are called half-widows. “We want the…
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