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  MEXICO CITY -- A senior government human rights official said Thursday that 90% of crimes against activists and journalists go unpunished in Mexico. The assistant interior secretary in charge of human rights said that in those cases where the culprits have been identified, almost half are local officials. Local officials in Mexico are often angered by corruption accusations against them, but in some cases they are also in league with criminal or business interests. Alejandro Encinas said new laws are needed to protect activists and reporters. Mexico currently has a protection mechanism of alarms or guards that as of October covered 495 journalists and 1,011 activists. But critics have said the measures are insufficient. Nine people covered by the protection measures have been killed since Dec. 1, 2018, when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office. Mexico is one of the most dangerous places on earth for reporters outside active war zones. Official figures show that ...

  IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Kashmir has been rocked by several protests against Indian rule A controversy has erupted in Indian-administered Kashmir over a proposal to redraw the region's electoral map. The draft proposes an increase in assembly seats that could raise the influence of the Hindu-dominated Jammu region in the disputed region's electoral politics. Residents of the Muslim-dominated Kashmir valley fear this will reduce their say in choosing leaders. Mainstream political leaders say this could sound the death knell for pro-India politics in the region. The latest move comes on the heels of various other measures that have increased the sense of alienation people in Muslim-majority Kashmir feel from the rest of India, which is overwhelmingly Hindu. Relations between Kashmir and Delhi have been tense for decades but became worse after 2019 - when Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government stripped Jammu and Kashmir state of its special status an...