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India's human rights record comes under attack
Friday December 07, 2012 09:25:08 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: India has
failed to implement the concrete recommendations made by a UN
human rights mechanism, enacting only 67 out of its 168
recommendations, which paints a grim picture of human rights in
the country, a prominent rights activist said Friday.
"Most of the concrete recommendations of the UPR have been
rejected by the the government and it has only accepted the
generic ones," Working Group on Human Rights (WGHR) convenor
Miloon Kothari said at a press conference here.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism established by
the Human Rights Council (HRC), which aims to improve the human
rights situation on the ground in each of the 193 UN member states
and address human rights violations wherever they occur.
Other activists were also present on the occasion and criticised
the government's record.
"UPR I and II made recommendation that Armed Forces Special Powers
Act (AFSPA) be restricted and revoked but India has not accepted
any of these," said Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist
Vrinda Grover.
She said it is ironical that Prevention of Torture Bill had been
lying with the home ministry since 2010 and the government has not
got it ratified by the United Nations.
"This represents the priorities of the government," she said.
The issue of death penalty was also raised by activists which
opined that no civilised society should approve of of it.
"There is a lack of data on how many number of death penalties
have been given," said Suhas Chakma, director of the Asian Centre
for Human Rights.
Another activist Prasad Srivella highlighted the atrocities
perpetuated on people belonging to scheduled cases and tribes.
He said that out of nine recommendations related to rights of
these sections, only two have been accepted by India.
Kothari also lamented that the United Progressive Alliance
government has rejected the UPR recommendations of allocating six
percent of the GDP to health and three percent to education which
the government had itself promised in its common minimum
programme.
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