India's rights body faces downgrade, loss of 'A' status https://www.ucanews.com/news/indias-rights-body-faces-downgrade-loss-of-a-status/108701
Sister Vanaja Jasphine, a rights activist. told UCA that the downgrading “will deprive India of its right to speak at the Human Rights Council and its voting power in crucial global human rights discussions,” among other things.
“It will also damage the reputation of India as a human rights defender,” she said, and added that “a weak national rights body may no longer have the strength to hold state actors, police, or security forces accountable for human rights violations.”