Punjab Human Rights and Minority Affairs Minister Ijaz Alam Augustine and other members of Punjab Assembly along with High commissioner of Australia and EU also attended the ceremony.
While addressing the ceremony, the Federal Minister showed her grave concern over the violations and the threat of further worse violations of human rights besides looming threats of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Indian occupied Kashmir. She drew the attention of the UN and Australian HC to the massive human rights violations committed by India against the people of Kashmir in a blatant and forceful attempt to deny the latter their right to self-determination, including the gender-based violence as a weapon of war, communications shutdown, imposition of a curfew, arbitrary arrests and detentions; arrests of political leaders, religious persecution and violations against children.