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- India has informed the United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC) that it has decided to cut off any communication with the UNHRC Special Rapporteurs.
- The term rapporteur is a French-derived word for an investigator who reports to a deliberative body.Special rapporteur are titles given to individuals working on behalf of the United Nations (UN) within the scope of special procedure mechanisms who have a specific country or thematic mandate from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
- A Special Rapporteurs on Extrajudicial Executions had asked the Indian government about steps taken to address the alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir listed in a June 2018 report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
- India has informed the UNHRC that it will no longer entertain any communication with the Special Rapporteurs on its report.
- However, UN officials have said that India is in contravention of several Conventions it has committed to including a Standing Invitation signed in 2011 to all special rapporteurs to visit India.
- In June 2018,the UNHRC had issued its report on the human rights situation in Indian-Administered and Pakistan-Administered Kashmir.The report highlighted a situation of chronic impunity for violations committed by security forces.India had rejected the report.



