Human Rights Policy Governance
Human Rights Policy Governance
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Centre releases number of #UAPA cases registered and number of under-trials, convicted and acquitted during 2016-2020.
Thus Spake Shevek
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Any sane person looking at just this simple data can comprehend how UAPA is being used as per the govt whims instead of evidence-backed investigations. Not to miss, the weaponization of law against civil society is a fundamental of Fascism.
Viv @SudIndus Illegal incarceration more like it?
sukumar moharana @sukumar_m And this is not emergency
From Uma N,
The Center for Pluralism are starting a series of meetings, and the first one would be "*Busting myths about Hindus and Muslims*." starting Thursday, March 17, 2022, between 12 and 2 PM EST.
We owe our motherland that she and her children are safe and secure. We believe in Vasudhaiva Kutumbukum, and we believe in the dignity of every life. All our religions, the religions practiced in India, guide us to create societies where we are treated with respect and dignity.
The goal is a cohesive India where every Indian feels secure about his (meaning both genders) faith, race, language,
ethnicity, culture, and other uniqueness. The primary goal is the restoration of democracy and individual freedoms and rights.
In the video interview with Karan Thapar listed below, Sunita Viswanath speaks eloquently and appeals to the Hindus who care about India and human rights. -Hindus for Human Rights to Keep Lobbying US Congress, Govt against India's Treatment of Muslims https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7I5KlJbhLA
Framed As A Terrorist book review: My Name is Khan And I’m Not a Terrorist https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/framed-as-a-terrorist-book-review-my-name-is-khan-and-im-not-a-terrorist/ September 1, 2018 
Mohammad Aamir Khan’s account of his false implication in a terror case echoes the story of hundreds of Muslim men framed as terrorists
Aamir’s book is a Muslim man’s memoir of his lost youth in this grand farcical theatre of terror investigations in India. He was framed as a terrorist and falsely accused in 18 bomb blast cases. When he was released on January 12, 2012 from Rohtak jail, he believed he was “a free man”. “The key turned in the big lock, the door opened and I stepped out,’’ he recalls in his book. “I turned left and then to right. There were no guards. I had no handcuffs and I was truly free…”
But once the book progresses, it becomes clear that he may have been acquitted after a long struggle in the courts, but the system is yet to acknowledge his innocence. This is why the State hasn’t taken any action against the police officers responsible for his false implication, nor offered any compensation for the mammoth wrong done to him. The government hasn’t even issued a symbolic apology to Aamir or to any of the others who were deliberately put through such suffering. In fact, a honourable acquittal in terror cases doesn’t matter because the process itself has become the punishment.
The media is equally responsible because they make the arrest and not the culmination of the judicial process as the climax of a terror investigation.
Book Review By Shalini Sharma Feb 29, 2020
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Himachal wire is a rainbow with wings. It is a place where everybody has a piece of their own colourful sky. In it we keep the language simple and the thoughts clear. Sky is the limit for Himachal wire. We review the books for you and bring you stories from around the world.
Framed As A Terrorist - Mohd Aamir Khan at Manthan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MLndY9V5Xk
Sep 18, 2019 Manthan
Mohd Aamir Khan was arrested and put behind the bars for 14years only aferr which he was acquitted as innocent. This Talk is about his experiences in jail, the lessons he learnt on law and justice and the role of media, its impact on an individual, a family and a community.
Editorial with Sujit Nair: New era in J&K begun because of Amit Shah- NHRC chief Arun Mishra https://youtu.be/tZeAcFlDBO4?t=392
"Mr Amit Shah, New Era Now In J&K Because Of You": Rights Body Chief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlu6B4IO2Yg Oct 12, 2021
The NHRC Chairman, Justice Arun Mishra says it had become the "norm" to accuse India of human rights violations, spurred by international forces.
At an event addressed by both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, Justice Arun Mishra also said Union Home Minister Amit Shah propelled a "new era in Jammu and Kashmir" .
Amit Shah's 'untiring efforts' for peace in J&K, Northeast 'has ushered in a new age': NHRC chief https://indianexpress.com/article/india/amit-shah-untiring-efforts-for-peace-in-jk-northeast-nhrc-chief-7568448/
The NHRC chairperson also spoke about the selective definition of human rights and said that one cannot glorify terrorists and terrorism, claiming human rights.
NHRC Chairperson Justice Arun Kumar Mishra (retd) Tuesday credited Union Home Minister Amit Shah for fostering a peaceful situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast and asserted that the “untiring efforts” of the minister has “ushered in a new age” for the regions.
“It is because of you that a new era has now begun in Jammu and Kashmir,” Justice Mishra said in his address during an event at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi to mark the foundation day of the National Human Rights Commission.
The NHRC is a statutory body that was constituted on October 12, 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Act for the promotion and protection of human rights. The NHRC takes cognisance of human rights violations, conducts enquiries and recommends compensation to victims from public authorities besides other remedial and legal measures against the erring public servants.
Will sycophants protect human rights? NHRC I ARUN MISHRA I AMIT SHAH I PRIME MINISTER I HUMAN RIGHTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTR_eCA32so 12 Oct 2012 जस्टिस अरुण मिश्रा क्या राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार आयोग को ध्वस्त कर देंगे? जिस तरह से उन्होंने प्रधानमंत्री और गृहमंत्री की चमचागीरी की है क्या उससे मानवाधिकारों की रक्षा की उम्मीद की जा सकती है? मानवाधिकारों के हनन के बारे में उन्होंने जो विचार व्यक्त किए हैं, क्या वे आने वाले बुरे वक़्त के संकेत हैं? डॉ. मुकेश कुमार के साथ चर्चा में शामिल हैं-एन. के. सिंह, डॉ. सुनीलम, क़ुरबान अली, नीरेंद्र नागर और जुनैद , वरिष्ठ पत्रकार
S Sen On Whatsapp: The head of the NHRC (National Human Righrs Commission) is proclaiming an exhibitionist humongous act of squashing of human rights as the launch of a "new era". Of course a "new era" - a new era of unprecedented darkness, even by the Kashmir standard.
If earlier, the NHRC too often proved quite ineffective, now, with Arun Mishra taking over, there's a tectonic shift. The august institution has converted itself into yet another arm of the Union Home Ministry. One should not only scrupulously desist from approaching this organisation, it must be actively named and shamed whenever an occasion arises.
‘New Norm to Accuse India of Human Rights Violations’: NHRC Chair and Ex-SC Judge Arun Mishra https://thewire.in/rights/new-norm-to-accuse-india-of-human-rights-violations-nhrc-chair-and-ex-sc-judge-arun-mishra
He said "Indians enjoy religious freedom and citizens here have the freedom to construct temples, churches and mosques. “Such freedom is not available in many other countries. (But) we cannot glorify terrorism and terrorists. No one has the freedom to destroy institutions through their contemptuous act.”
His comments came against the backdrop of several media reports on attack on human rights defenders, and India’s falling rank on press freedom and democracy index.
S Sen On Whatsapp: The head of the NHRC (National Human Righrs Commission) is proclaiming an exhibitionist humongous act of squashing of human rights as the launch of a "new era". Of course a "new era" - a new era of unprecedented darkness, even by the Kashmir standard.
If earlier, the NHRC too often proved quite ineffective, now, with Arun Mishra taking over, there's a tectonic shift. The august institution has converted itself into yet another arm of the Union Home Ministry. One should not only scrupulously desist from approaching this organisation, it must be actively named and shamed whenever an occasion arises.
For Second Year, US Religious Freedom Body Sees India as 'Country of Particular Concern https://thewire.in/communalism/us-body-religious-freedom-india-as-country-of-particular-concern In its 2021 report, USCIRF said that religious freedom conditions in India “continued their negative trajectory”. “The government, led by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), promoted Hindu nationalist policies resulting in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom,” said the report, particularly noting the passage of the “religiously discriminatory” Citizenship Amendment Act. The report indicated that there was seeming police complicity in the Delhi riots.
Nine months after he retired from SC, Justice Arun Mishra is NHRC chief https://indianexpress.com/article/india/justice-arun-mishra-nhrc-chairman-7340811/ In a note attached to the tweet, Kharge, who is part of the high-powered selection committee, said he had sought the appointment of a person belonging to Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe as chairperson or even as a member of NHRC in light of the “rise in cases of atrocities” against these communities. “Since the Committee did not accept any of my proposals, I express my disagreement with the recommendations made by the Committee, in regard to appointments to the posts of Chairperson and Members of NHRC,” Kharge wrote.
NHRC Appointments: Hindutva Deep State Expands Armoury by Ravi Nair June 5, 2021 https://www.theleaflet.in/nhrc-appointments-hindutva-deep-state-expands-armoury/ Evidently, the NHRC under the Modi-Shah dispensation will be the new sword arm of an unethical central government, ready to open a new front against Opposition state governments and attack sections of civil society that have not genuflected. The quislings will find themselves on core committees of NGOs and other foundations, run directly or indirectly by the security machinery
Will SCA Revisit NHRC Accreditation?
That the Indian NHRC was granted “A” status by the SCA in 2017 is a scandal. This was perturbing as the NHRC, for its November 2017 review, had done nothing credible to attest to improvements nor was there was any substantive compliance with the SCA recommendations of 2011 and 2016.
The new appointment will ensure the death of much-required reforms in the Indian NHRC as suggested by the Justice Ahmadi report and bury reforms in the more than 170 other national and state-level human rights institutions in India. All of them are opaque and toothless.
Activists have written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray urging him to take “immediate action” in filling up three posts in the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC).
The letter pointed out that because of the vacancies, the commission has become “defunct” and the number of pending cases is nearly 18,000.
MSHRC, which is constituted to ensure the better protection of human rights in Maharashtra, plays an important role in addressing human rights violations and is crucial for our democracy and dispensation of justice. The functioning of MSHRC is even more essential in critical times like the pandemic as it is an important recourse to justice for ordinary people who have been suffering. With the courts working on low capacity and taking only urgent and Covid related matters in light of the second wave of the pandemic, the need for MSHRC to look into specific cases of human rights violations, is felt even more.
civil society organisations and activists demand that the Maharashtra Government immediately fill up the vacant positions in the MSHRC and ensure its smooth functioning