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  • CJI Chandrachud says citizenry has very important position to play in safety of human rights

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Courts will not be the one recourse for the safety of human rights and the citizenry has a really very important position to play in safeguarding them, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has mentioned.

    Speaking on the University of Edinburgh’s Law School on the subject “Global Change and the Legal Profession, Past and Future: Perspectives from India”, Chandrachud mentioned for a very rights-alert or a rights-vibrant society, there needs to be steady engagement between the courts, residents and civil society organisations.

    “Citizenry have a very vital role to play in the protection of rights. It would be overstating the point, in my mind I would postulate, to say that courts are the only source of recourse for protection of these rights,” Chandrachud mentioned.

    The CJI mentioned there’s a extra dialogic position that’s being performed by courts which emerges in the course of the course of dialogues with the court docket.

    NEW DELHI: Courts will not be the one recourse for the safety of human rights and the citizenry has a really very important position to play in safeguarding them, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has mentioned.

    Speaking on the University of Edinburgh’s Law School on the subject “Global Change and the Legal Profession, Past and Future: Perspectives from India”, Chandrachud mentioned for a very rights-alert or a rights-vibrant society, there needs to be steady engagement between the courts, residents and civil society organisations.

    “Citizenry have a very vital role to play in the protection of rights. It would be overstating the point, in my mind I would postulate, to say that courts are the only source of recourse for protection of these rights,” Chandrachud mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The CJI mentioned there’s a extra dialogic position that’s being performed by courts which emerges in the course of the course of dialogues with the court docket.

  • Bangladesh rally challenges Western narrative on human rights violations

    By Sahidul Hasan Khokon: For freedom fighter Sheikh Fatemah Ali, now in her seventies, the Western pitch for human rights is not sensible.

    “This narrative by foreign rights groups only seeks to protect the killers who perpetrated horrible atrocities on us,” stated Fatemah, who suffered unspeakable torture by the hands of Pakistani troops and their native collaborators.

    Though buoyed by the victory within the Liberation War that led to the emergence of an impartial Bengali nation-state, Fatemah resented not solely the letting off of the killers of the nation’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) founder Gen Ziaur Rahman’s navy junta, but additionally his failure to get the conflict crimes trials began.

    Only after the Sheikh Hasina authorities began the 1971 conflict crimes trials after coming to energy in January 2009, might Fatemah breathe simple.

    “But I cannot understand why the UN still refuses to recognise the 1971 genocide of Bengalis by Pakistan Army and their local collaborators. This is really difficult to understand,” stated Fatemah, throughout a rally held within the capital Dhaka not too long ago.

    Golam Rahman Tito’s household suffered a horrific ordeal — first by the hands of Pakistan Army collaborators, and after the nation’s independence by the hands of pro-Pakistan Opposition – BNP-Jamaat alliance. In 1971, Tito’s brother was picked up from his residence and killed by native Jamaat leaders, who sided with the Pakistan Army. The household even did not hint his physique regardless of frantic searches.

    Tito misplaced his sister within the 1975 coup d’etat. His sister, eminent athlete Sultana Kamal, had married Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana – the 2 surviving daughters of Mujib – misplaced 19 of their relations within the bloodbath on that fateful evening.

    Much to their dismay, the killers have been embraced by subsequent governments, led by the Opposition alliance for many years. Even now, a number of the killers are offered everlasting shelter by a lot of Western nations that ceaselessly sermonise international locations like Bangladesh on human rights, in accordance with conflict heroes who joined the Dhaka rally.

    The rally by victims like Tito and Fatemah, who misplaced close to and expensive ones in the course of the violence unleashed by the pro-Pakistan Islamist Opposition, introduced the main focus again on the decades-old deafening silence of some “rights groups” over sheltering of self-confessed conflict criminals and killers.

    According to the audio system on the rally, human rights acts as a pretext to name into query the equity of the conflict crimes trial. This, coupled with “willful ignorance over impunity endowed by a number of Western countries through sheltering war criminals and killers of Mujib family” provides to rising proof of double requirements perpetuated by such teams.

    No marvel that not less than 19 assassination makes an attempt have been made on Sheikh Hasina, now prime minister, because the West continues to harbour a number of killers.

    UN “silence” over 1971 genocide

    Several freedom fighters addressing the rally deplored the UN’s silent apathy that they imagine left the 1971 genocide unrecognised. Though 5 many years have elapsed, victims imagine the UN’s studied ignorance would solely embolden the perpetrators.

    “It seems they are unwilling to even listen to the other side of the story — what about the 1971 Liberation War where three million Bengalis were killed and a quarter-million women were dishonoured. The UN has not yet dubbed the1971 atrocities as genocide,” stated Tarana Halim, president of Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote.

    “Deserted by my husband and family, I, with a group of others who survived the war atrocities by Pakistan Army, met Mujib at his home in Dhanmondi shortly after the country came into being. Deeply moved by the trauma, along with a distasteful approach from society that engulfed our lives, Mujib stepped forward and stood by our side. Thanks to his fatherly approach and rigorous efforts on part of his government, we started getting back to normal life. Yet within just a few years, Mujib, with his family members, was assassinated in his home,” recounted Fatemah.

    Midnight massacre of 1975

    Researchers believe the gruesome assassination of Mujib along with 19 members of his family on August 15, 1975 was a global conspiracy to avenge the defeat of 1971.

    A teary-eyed Tito unravelled the traumatic ordeal his family had to go through for decades as the killers of his sisters were embraced by the country’s first military dictator, Gen Zia, and later by his wife Begum Khaleda Zia, who now holds the top rank in BNP.

    A student of the University of Dhaka, Sultana Kamal held national records in the long jump and the 100 metres dash. But her life was cut short on August 15, 1975 when a band of disgruntled army officers stormed Mujib’s residence in Dhanmondi and gunned down as many as 19 family members, including 10-year old Sheikh Russel, the president’s youngest son.

    “…My sister and all members of the family (there that night) were gunned down. What was their fault? Mujib had to pay with his life for leading a nation to independence… Why did the rights groups never speak about the rights of so many killed that night?” Tito requested on the current rally in Dhaka.

    “In 1971, local collaborators with the Pakistan Army picked up my brother from his home and later murdered him… We couldn’t even locate the remains of my brother to perform his burial.”

    Quite a few conflict heroes additionally pulled up the US for sermonising Bangladesh on human rights whereas on the similar time giving sanctuary to a killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

    Rashed Chowdhury, who was sentenced to loss of life for the assassination of Bangabandhu, has been residing within the US for a very long time. Another convicted assassin, Noor Chowdhury, is in neighbouring Canada, in accordance with media experiences.

    Jail killings in 1975

    In lower than 20 days after the assassination of Bangabandhu, 4 prime Awami League (AL) leaders have been additionally gunned down inside a jail on November 3, 1975. Khairuzzaman Liton (Rajshahi mayor)’s father Qamruzzaman was one amongst these leaders murdered within the jail together with three of his cabinet colleagues.

    “After the assassination of Bangabandhu and his family members, my father alongside three other top AL leaders were ruthlessly shot dead inside prison,” Liton recalled, addressing the rally.

    Following the killing spree, General Zia rose to the rank of Army Chief who would later grow to be the president of the nation, with out holding any credible election and his rise to energy set in movement the most important mockery of democracy within the newly liberated nation, in accordance with researchers.

    “At the behest of General Zia, these killers broke into the prison and killed my father. From assassinating the Father of the Nation and then eliminating top AL leaders who were close associates speak of a mindset that clearly stood against the spirit of the Liberation War and plunged the country into a pit of communalism. Our rights were trampled by Zia to solidify his grip on power,” added Liton, a presidium member of AL.

    Mujib killers awarded prime diplomatic missions

    Lawrence Lifschultz, in ‘Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution’, has offered particulars of the CIA involvement whereas others have detailed the ISI participation even in selecting the day for the coup — August 15 — to specific Pakistan’s anger at Indian help for the reason for Bangladesh liberation and the breakup of Pakistan.

    On July 9, 1979, General Zia used Parliament to cross the notorious ‘Indemnity Ordinance’. The black legislation was handed with the only real goal to offer a authorized defend for the infamous killers of the nation’s founding father. The ‘Indemnity Ordinance’ ensured no punishment could be meted out to the military officers who have been answerable for the killing of Bangabandhu and his household.

    By piloting it via Parliament, Gen Ziaur Rahman left sufficient indication of his motive behind rewarding the Mujib killers.

    Most of those killers have been appointed as senior diplomats in Bangladesh missions overseas and a few even rose to grow to be parliamentarians with full impunity.

    Referring to the disgraceful inclusion of indemnity for Bangabandhu’s killers within the fifth modification of the Constitution, a lot of researchers known as that enactment “the beginning of the culture of impunity for killers in independent Bangladesh”.

    Killing of conflict heroes in 1977

    Ironically with General Zia on the helm of the military, an enormous effort was made to erase secularism because the core worth of Bengali nationalism.

    During Zia’s regime that lasted until 1981, over 1,000 armed forces officers – lots of whom have been freedom fighters – have been hanged with none trial underneath the pretext of a purge. Families of such conflict heroes are nonetheless making an attempt to find the stays of their expensive ones. At the rally, they questioned the apparent “double standard” on a part of the so-called rights our bodies for his or her selective strategy to rights points.

    Kamruzzaman Lenin, who misplaced his father in the course of the purge underneath the Zia regime, stated: “These extrajudicial killings were executed from a political viewpoint – the ideology that opposed the country’s independence. I still don’t know where my father’s remains are.”

    “You can’t be selective in raising rights issues and claim your organisation is free of bias… the whole definition of human rights encompasses abuse of rights issues as a whole but being selective clearly unravels a hypocrisy,” he added.

    The households turned out on the occasion underneath the banner of ‘What about our human rights?’

    Victims of BNP-Jamaat violence (2001 to 2006)

    Several victims of BNP-Jamaat violence throughout 2001-2006 additionally attended the occasion – demanding trial of the perpetrators, citing scores of victims because the nation witnessed communal assaults, homicide of AL activists and leaders, systematic elimination of progressive writers and liberal thinkers in the course of the time.

    A survivor of the August 21, 2004 grenade assault narrated her ordeal and recounted how the then BNP-Jamaat authorities backed the killers, making a mockery of the victims’ proper to justice.

    General Zia lived by sword and died by it in a coup of types, however his legacy of blood was carried ahead by his spouse, Khaleda Zia, and Tarique Rahman, particularly throughout their coalition authorities with Jamaat-e-Islami between 2001 and 2006, in accordance with media experiences.

    Taking benefit of getting some highly effective overseas backing, BNP- Jamaat-led coalition unleashed not less than 19 assassination makes an attempt on Sheikh Hasina, with probably the most deadly one unfolding over the last tenure of that nexus — often called August 21 grenade assault. The assault unfolded in 2004 throughout a rally addressed by then opposition chief Sheikh Hasina, that left not less than 24 individuals useless.

    Orchestrated by militants with assist from Pakistan, the attackers have been ensured protected passage from the nation to evade justice, in accordance with media experiences.

    The then state minister for Home, Lutfurzzaman Babar, reportedly handpicked by Tarqiue Rahman, now put behind bars along with his boss Tarqiue, again then emerged as a prime BNP policymaker, in accordance with media experiences held conferences with the attackers.

    Now working BNP as appearing chair, Tarique is main a fugitive life in London as he left the nation nearly a decade again to evade justice for his crimes, in accordance with political observers.

    That August 21, 2004 was one other darkish day for democracy and within the political historical past of Bangladesh. The grenade assault was the second largest blow to the AL, the get together that led Bangladesh to independence from Pakistan in 1971, with the most important one being the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in accordance with researchers.

    Another group, comprising survivors of arson assaults throughout 2013-2015, additionally attended the occasion and known as for exemplary punishment for the attackers. They additionally referred to the selective bias of some rights our bodies as their demand for justice went unheeded for years.

    Edited By:

    Tirtho Banerjee

    Published On:

    Feb 17, 2023

  • Disney+ in Hong Kong drops ‘Simpsons’ episode with ‘pressured labour’ point out

    By AFP

    HONG KONG: An episode of “The Simpsons” that refers to “forced labour camps” in China is nowhere to be discovered on the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong amid rising censorship issues within the metropolis.

    Hong Kong as soon as boasted vital inventive and cultural freedoms in comparison with mainland China, however authorities have clamped down on dissent following democracy protests in 2019, together with stepping up movie censorship.

    Episode 2 of the US animated hits’ thirty fourth season included the road: “Behold the wonders of China. Bitcoin mines, forced labour camps where children make smartphones, and romance.”

    “One Angry Lisa”, which first aired final October, couldn’t be accessed on Disney+ utilizing a Hong Kong connection however is offered elsewhere, AFP confirmed.

    It is the second time in three years that the streaming service’s Hong Kong model has dropped a Simpsons episode that satirised China.

    The beforehand affected episode confirmed the Simpsons visiting Beijing’s Tiananmen Square — the location of a lethal 1989 crackdown on democracy protesters — discovering an indication there that learn: “On this site, in 1989, nothing happened.”

    The Hong Kong authorities and Disney didn’t instantly present remark.

    In 2021, Hong Kong handed censorship legal guidelines forbidding broadcasts that may breach a broad nationwide safety regulation that China imposed on town.

    Censors have since ordered administrators to make cuts to their movies and refused permission for others to be proven.

    ALSO READ | Million Tibetan kids separated from households in China, pressured to assimilate: UN specialists

    While these guidelines don’t cowl streaming providers, authorities have warned that on-line platforms are nonetheless topic to the nationwide safety regulation, which criminalises the broadly outlined crimes of subversion, succession, terrorism and collusion with international forces.

    In current years, Hollywood has been accused of bending to China’s censorship regime to faucet into its huge shopper base and billion-dollar field workplace.

    Beijing has lengthy denied accusations of torture and compelled labour within the far-western Xinjiang area, whilst a current United Nations report discovered the allegations credible.

    Rights teams say greater than 1,000,000 Uyghurs and different Muslim minorities are detained in what the US State Department and others have stated quantities to genocide.

    In 2020, Disney got here beneath fireplace for filming the live-action Mulan remake in Xinjiang, with native authorities businesses thanked within the credit.

    HONG KONG: An episode of “The Simpsons” that refers to “forced labour camps” in China is nowhere to be discovered on the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong amid rising censorship issues within the metropolis.

    Hong Kong as soon as boasted vital inventive and cultural freedoms in comparison with mainland China, however authorities have clamped down on dissent following democracy protests in 2019, together with stepping up movie censorship.

    Episode 2 of the US animated hits’ thirty fourth season included the road: “Behold the wonders of China. Bitcoin mines, forced labour camps where children make smartphones, and romance.”

    “One Angry Lisa”, which first aired final October, couldn’t be accessed on Disney+ utilizing a Hong Kong connection however is offered elsewhere, AFP confirmed.

    It is the second time in three years that the streaming service’s Hong Kong model has dropped a Simpsons episode that satirised China.

    The beforehand affected episode confirmed the Simpsons visiting Beijing’s Tiananmen Square — the location of a lethal 1989 crackdown on democracy protesters — discovering an indication there that learn: “On this site, in 1989, nothing happened.”

    The Hong Kong authorities and Disney didn’t instantly present remark.

    In 2021, Hong Kong handed censorship legal guidelines forbidding broadcasts that may breach a broad nationwide safety regulation that China imposed on town.

    Censors have since ordered administrators to make cuts to their movies and refused permission for others to be proven.

    ALSO READ | Million Tibetan kids separated from households in China, pressured to assimilate: UN specialists

    While these guidelines don’t cowl streaming providers, authorities have warned that on-line platforms are nonetheless topic to the nationwide safety regulation, which criminalises the broadly outlined crimes of subversion, succession, terrorism and collusion with international forces.

    In current years, Hollywood has been accused of bending to China’s censorship regime to faucet into its huge shopper base and billion-dollar field workplace.

    Beijing has lengthy denied accusations of torture and compelled labour within the far-western Xinjiang area, whilst a current United Nations report discovered the allegations credible.

    Rights teams say greater than 1,000,000 Uyghurs and different Muslim minorities are detained in what the US State Department and others have stated quantities to genocide.

    In 2020, Disney got here beneath fireplace for filming the live-action Mulan remake in Xinjiang, with native authorities businesses thanked within the credit.

  • Tokyo courtroom upholds ban on same-sex marriage however voices rights points

    On Wednesday, a Tokyo courtroom upheld a ban on same-sex marriage however stated an absence of authorized safety for same-sex households violated their human rights.

    Tokyo courtroom upholds ban on same-sex marriage

    By Reuters: A Tokyo courtroom upheld a ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday however stated an absence of authorized safety for same-sex households violated their human rights, a remark welcomed by plaintiffs as a step in direction of aligning Japan with different G7 nations.

    Japan is the one G7 nation that doesn’t enable same-sex marriage, and its structure defines marriage as based mostly on the mutual consent of each sexes.

    Although Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling occasion has revealed no plans but to overview the matter or suggest adjustments, a number of senior members assist same-sex marriage.

    Also Read: Same-sex marriage ban shouldn’t be unconstitutional: Japan courtroom

    In Wednesday’s ruling, the Tokyo district courtroom stated the ban was constitutional, however added that the absence of a authorized system to guard same-sex households infringed their human rights.

    “This is actually a fairly positive ruling,” stated Nobuhito Sawasaki, one of many legal professionals concerned within the case.

    “While marriage remains between a man and a woman, and the ruling supported that, it also said that the current situation with no legal protections for same-sex families is not good, and suggested something must be done about it,” he informed Reuters.

    Japan doesn’t allow same-sex {couples} to marry or inherit one another’s property, akin to a shared residence, and denies them parental rights to one another’s youngsters, whereas even hospital visits might be tough.

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    Though partnership certificates from municipalities cowl about 60% of Japan’s inhabitants, they don’t give same-sex {couples} the identical rights loved by heterosexual {couples}.

    The Tokyo ruling guarantees to be influential because the capital has an outsized affect on the remainder of Japan.

    It had been keenly awaited after hopes have been raised by a 2021 ruling within the metropolis of Sapporo that the ban was unconstitutional, though one other resolution in Osaka in June upheld the ban.

    The eight plaintiffs within the case stated the ban contravened their human rights and demanded damages of 1 million yen, though the courtroom rejected that.

    “This is hard to accept,” stated Gon Matsunaka, head of the activist group Marriage for All Japan.

    Both heterosexual and same-sex {couples} ought to be capable of profit equally from the system of marriage, as everyone seems to be equal underneath the legislation, he added.

    “It (the ruling) clearly said that is not possible.”

    Yet the popularity that same-sex households lacked authorized protections was “a big step”, he stated.

    ENCOURAGING STEP

    The plaintiffs, who unfurled a banner exterior the courthouse studying, “A step forward for Marriage Equality” after the ruling, stated they have been inspired.

    Also Read: Love is love, says Joe Biden as US Senate passes landmark invoice to guard same-sex marriage

    “There were parts of this that were disappointing, but parts of it gave me hope,” stated one in every of them, Katsu, who gave solely his first identify.

    The resolution got here a day after the U.S. Senate handed a same-sex marriage safety invoice and Singapore lifted a ban on homosexual intercourse however restricted the prospects for legalising same-sex marriage.

    Two extra circumstances are pending in Japan, and activists and legal professionals hope an accumulation of judicial choices supporting same-sex marriage will finally push lawmakers to vary the system, even when that is unlikely quickly.

    “I hope there will be legislative debate about this,” stated plaintiff Shizuka Oe. “We will keep making efforts.”

    The scenario has restricted the expertise pool for international companies, as teams such because the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan have identified, calling for change.

    “Thinking about the future of their lives, they don’t see anything in Japan,” stated Masa Yanagisawa, head of prime providers at financial institution Goldman Sachs and a member of the group Marriage for All Japan.

    “So they move to more friendly jurisdictions, like the United States.”

    Posted By:

    India Today Web Desk

    Published On:

    Dec 1, 2022

  • UNHRC working group opinions India’s nationwide report on human rights

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta is main a Universal Periodic Review working group delegation on the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Ministry of External Affairs mentioned.

    The forty first session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) working group started on Monday and India’s nationwide report was reviewed on Thursday, the ministry mentioned in a launch.

    The occasion will conclude on November 18.

    The delegation contains senior officers from varied ministries and the NITI Aaayog, together with the vice-chancellor of the National Law University.

    India’s nationwide report, outlining the steps taken to guard and promote human rights, was submitted on August 5, the ministry mentioned.

    Under UPR, member states evaluate the human rights efficiency of fellow members, it mentioned.

    Besides reinforcing the centrality of member states in fulfilling their human rights obligations, the UPR locations significance on dialogue and cooperation and has emerged as probably the most profitable human rights mechanisms, it added.

    “India has actively participated in the review of other states and we welcome the fact that 133 member states have registered to engage in our peer review,” the ministry mentioned in its assertion.

    NEW DELHI: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta is main a Universal Periodic Review working group delegation on the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Ministry of External Affairs mentioned.

    The forty first session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) working group started on Monday and India’s nationwide report was reviewed on Thursday, the ministry mentioned in a launch.

    The occasion will conclude on November 18.

    The delegation contains senior officers from varied ministries and the NITI Aaayog, together with the vice-chancellor of the National Law University.

    India’s nationwide report, outlining the steps taken to guard and promote human rights, was submitted on August 5, the ministry mentioned.

    Under UPR, member states evaluate the human rights efficiency of fellow members, it mentioned.

    Besides reinforcing the centrality of member states in fulfilling their human rights obligations, the UPR locations significance on dialogue and cooperation and has emerged as probably the most profitable human rights mechanisms, it added.

    “India has actively participated in the review of other states and we welcome the fact that 133 member states have registered to engage in our peer review,” the ministry mentioned in its assertion.

  • UN urges Elon Musk to safeguard human rights at Twitter

    The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has requested Elon Musk to defend the correct to privateness and the correct to free expression on Twitter to the fullest extent permitted by the legislation.

    Geneva,UPDATED: Nov 6, 2022 09:49 IST

    The UN has urged Elon Musk to make sure that human rights stay central to Twitter’s administration (Photo: File)

    By Reuters: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, the brand new proprietor of Twitter Inc, urging him to “ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter”.

    Twitter laid off half its workforce on Friday and tweets by workers of the social media firm mentioned the crew liable for human rights was amongst these affected, a improvement which Türk described as not “an encouraging start”.

    “Twitter is part of a global revolution that has transformed how we communicate,” Turk mentioned within the letter. “But I write with concern and apprehension about our digital public square and Twitter’s role in it.”

    “Like all companies, Twitter needs to understand the harms associated with its platform and take steps to address them,” he added. “Respect for our shared human rights should set the guardrails for the platform’s use and evolution.”

    “In short, I urge you to ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter under your leadership,” the High Commissioner mentioned.

    Friday’s layoffs capped per week of chaos and uncertainty about Twitter’s future below Musk, the world’s richest particular person, who tweeted on Friday that the service was experiencing a “massive drop in revenue”.

    Read | ‘No choice’: Musk defends Twitter layoffs, says firm dropping $4 million per day

    Published On:

    Nov 6, 2022

  • Any enlargement, significantly of geographical boundaries, includes human rights violation: VP Dhankhar

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Any enlargement, significantly of geographical boundaries, includes violation of human rights, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar mentioned on Wednesday, and asserted that India as a nation by no means believed in such a coverage.

    In his tackle on the basis day occasion of the National Human Rights Commission right here, he mentioned Indian ethos is such that the nation’s concern will not be restricted to itself however cares for the world.

    “We are yet to have another nation that can match our unrivalled record,” Dhankhar mentioned.

    “We never believed, as a nation, in expansion. Any expansion, particularly of geographical boundaries, involves violation of human rights, of an extreme degree. This nation (India) has never done so,” he mentioned.

    In his tackle, the Vice President additionally emphasised that human rights, as an idea, can’t be reckoned solely within the slender sense of preservation of non-public liberties and dignity.

    They should be understood in a broader context, he added.

    NEW DELHI: Any enlargement, significantly of geographical boundaries, includes violation of human rights, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar mentioned on Wednesday, and asserted that India as a nation by no means believed in such a coverage.

    In his tackle on the basis day occasion of the National Human Rights Commission right here, he mentioned Indian ethos is such that the nation’s concern will not be restricted to itself however cares for the world.

    “We are yet to have another nation that can match our unrivalled record,” Dhankhar mentioned.

    “We never believed, as a nation, in expansion. Any expansion, particularly of geographical boundaries, involves violation of human rights, of an extreme degree. This nation (India) has never done so,” he mentioned.

    In his tackle, the Vice President additionally emphasised that human rights, as an idea, can’t be reckoned solely within the slender sense of preservation of non-public liberties and dignity.

    They should be understood in a broader context, he added.

  • UNHRC adopts decision towards Sri Lanka’s rights report; India abstains from voting

    By PTI

    GENEVA: India on Thursday abstained on a draft decision within the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on selling reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka which was adopted.

    While abstaining, India careworn that it’ll work with Sri Lanka and the worldwide group to realize the associated targets of reputable aspirations of Tamils of Sri Lanka and prosperity for all Sri Lankans.

    The draft decision on –Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ was adopted on the 51st Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva, with 20 nations voting in favour within the 47-member Council, seven towards, together with China and Pakistan, and 20 abstentions, together with by India, Japan, Nepal and Qatar.

    The 20 international locations that voted in favour of the decision included, the United Kingdom, the United States, Argentina, Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Republic of Korea and Ukraine.

    In a press release through the adoption of the decision, Ambassador Indra Mani Pandey, Permanent Representative of India to UN & different International Organizations, mentioned that whereas India has taken word of the commitments by the federal government of Sri Lanka on problems with implementation of the commitments within the spirit of the thirteenth Constitutional Amendment, significant devolution and the early conduct of provincial elections, “we believe that the progress towards the same remains inadequate.”  India urged Sri Lanka to work meaningfully in the direction of early implementation of those commitments.

    “Achieving prosperity for all Sri Lankans and realising the legitimate aspirations of Tamils of Sri Lanka for prosperity, dignity and peace are two sides of the same coin,” Pandey mentioned.

    He careworn that as a right away neighbour, India has considerably contributed to the reduction, rehabilitation, resettlement and reconstruction course of in Sri Lanka after 2009.

    More just lately since January this 12 months, India has stepped up and supplied unprecedented help to the folks of Sri Lanka to face the challenges of the latest financial disaster.

    “In finding a lasting and effective solution for peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, India has always been guided by the two fundamental principles of support to the aspirations of the Tamils for equality, justice, dignity and peace and unity, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Sri Lanka,” he mentioned.

    The vital function within the decision is its name to research the on-going financial disaster and prosecute these accountable.

    It additionally “calls upon the government of Sri Lanka to address the ongoing economic crisis including by investigating and where warranted prosecuting corruption including where committed by public and former public officials and stands ready to assist and support independent impartial and transparent efforts in this regard”.

    The resolutions on selling reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka had been beforehand moved in Geneva in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, and in 2021.

    Sri Lanka had expressed opposition to the decision as a violation of its sovereignty apart from in 2015 once they co-sponsored the decision.

    According to the Lankan authorities figures, over 20,000 persons are lacking because of numerous conflicts together with the three-decade brutal battle with Lankan Tamils within the north and east which claimed at the very least 100,000 lives.

    The Tamils alleged that hundreds had been massacred through the last phases of the battle that led to 2009 when the federal government forces killed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Velupillai Prabhakaran.

    The Sri Lankan Army denies the cost, claiming it as a humanitarian operation to rid the Tamils of LTTE’s management.

    At the tip of the civil battle, the United Nations accused either side of atrocities, particularly through the battle’s last phases.

    International rights teams declare at the very least 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians had been killed within the last phases of the battle.

    GENEVA: India on Thursday abstained on a draft decision within the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on selling reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka which was adopted.

    While abstaining, India careworn that it’ll work with Sri Lanka and the worldwide group to realize the associated targets of reputable aspirations of Tamils of Sri Lanka and prosperity for all Sri Lankans.

    The draft decision on –Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ was adopted on the 51st Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva, with 20 nations voting in favour within the 47-member Council, seven towards, together with China and Pakistan, and 20 abstentions, together with by India, Japan, Nepal and Qatar.

    The 20 international locations that voted in favour of the decision included, the United Kingdom, the United States, Argentina, Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Republic of Korea and Ukraine.

    In a press release through the adoption of the decision, Ambassador Indra Mani Pandey, Permanent Representative of India to UN & different International Organizations, mentioned that whereas India has taken word of the commitments by the federal government of Sri Lanka on problems with implementation of the commitments within the spirit of the thirteenth Constitutional Amendment, significant devolution and the early conduct of provincial elections, “we believe that the progress towards the same remains inadequate.”  India urged Sri Lanka to work meaningfully in the direction of early implementation of those commitments.

    “Achieving prosperity for all Sri Lankans and realising the legitimate aspirations of Tamils of Sri Lanka for prosperity, dignity and peace are two sides of the same coin,” Pandey mentioned.

    He careworn that as a right away neighbour, India has considerably contributed to the reduction, rehabilitation, resettlement and reconstruction course of in Sri Lanka after 2009.

    More just lately since January this 12 months, India has stepped up and supplied unprecedented help to the folks of Sri Lanka to face the challenges of the latest financial disaster.

    “In finding a lasting and effective solution for peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, India has always been guided by the two fundamental principles of support to the aspirations of the Tamils for equality, justice, dignity and peace and unity, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Sri Lanka,” he mentioned.

    The vital function within the decision is its name to research the on-going financial disaster and prosecute these accountable.

    It additionally “calls upon the government of Sri Lanka to address the ongoing economic crisis including by investigating and where warranted prosecuting corruption including where committed by public and former public officials and stands ready to assist and support independent impartial and transparent efforts in this regard”.

    The resolutions on selling reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka had been beforehand moved in Geneva in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, and in 2021.

    Sri Lanka had expressed opposition to the decision as a violation of its sovereignty apart from in 2015 once they co-sponsored the decision.

    According to the Lankan authorities figures, over 20,000 persons are lacking because of numerous conflicts together with the three-decade brutal battle with Lankan Tamils within the north and east which claimed at the very least 100,000 lives.

    The Tamils alleged that hundreds had been massacred through the last phases of the battle that led to 2009 when the federal government forces killed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Velupillai Prabhakaran.

    The Sri Lankan Army denies the cost, claiming it as a humanitarian operation to rid the Tamils of LTTE’s management.

    At the tip of the civil battle, the United Nations accused either side of atrocities, particularly through the battle’s last phases.

    International rights teams declare at the very least 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians had been killed within the last phases of the battle.

  • Companies ought to handle AI biases

    NEW DELHI : Companies should undertake proactive and extra accountable insurance policies to mitigate biases in synthetic intelligence (AI)-based resolution making inside a corporation, stated a research by the Aapti Institute and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), issued on Wednesday.

    Adapting insurance policies and laws amid the rising digitization of companies may assist firms handle the influence of AI on human rights, which is a rising concern as extra enterprises automate providers, the research famous. The lack of conducive firm insurance policies and laws can exacerbate the influence of AI and automation on the human rights of staff, it stated.

    Companies use the guise of algorithm-based resolution making to “obfuscate deliberate firm insurance policies”, as an alternative of aiming to ascertain a accountable and explainable AI mannequin, in line with the research.

    An explainable AI mannequin is one the place the actions taken by an AI algorithm and its logic may be defined, thus main to raised understanding of underlying biases and the coaching of algorithms accordingly.

    The difficulty of algorithmic bias, in line with the research, has the best influence on monetary providers, healthcare, retail and gig employee industries. Among these sectors, essentially the most impacted staff belong to the weak and marginalized sections for whom direct entry to expertise is proscribed, thus limiting their skill to hunt recourse in the event that they really feel violated by an automatic resolution made by their employers.

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