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10/12/2013  
The Vice President addresses NHRCs HR Day Function: Stresses the need for a relook in the traditional approach of dealing with human rights
 

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, organised a special function in New Delhi to observe the Human Rights Day today, which marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly of United Nations in 1948.

Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Mr. M. Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India and the Chief Guest said that there is a gap between what the official agencies project about the nature and extent of violation and what is perceived to be the situation on the ground.  We do have a legal and institutional framework for protection and promotion of human rights, but questions continue to arise with regard to their efficacy in actual implementation.

          The Vice President said that we, both as a national and international responsibility, have an obligation to reduce the gap between the principle and practice.  Violations are widespread, discrimination-based on religion, caste, language, ethnicity, creed, work, dissent and economic status continues to occur with disturbing frequency.

          Raising a debate on the human rights and human wrongs, he said that the traditional approach to address the human rights issues necessitates a relook. The requirement of justice cannot be subject to political bargaining or the calculus of social interests.  It is our duty and responsibility to give voice to those who continue to suffer and strive to seek for them both relief and justice.

          Debate on human rights is essentially a top-down process, which often becomes politicized bringing the Human Rights institutions, nationally and internationally, under pressure to endorse them.  As a result, universal principles tend to be invoked or overlooked selectively throughout the world.  This is an issue, which was also pointed out by the Human Rights Council in its report to the UN General Assembly, recently.

          The interests of individuals, who are the beneficiaries of human rights in different sovereign States, often get subordinated to the interests of the nations, who come under the influence of the powerful among them in the community of nations, which is not of equals.  Therefore, the intent of the Charter and the Universal Declaration is subsumed in the structural framework of the international community. 

          Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Chairperson, NHRC gave an overview of the various activities of the Commission in its effort to promote and protect human rights and said that despite such expansive range of activities by the Commission, there remain considerable challenges to the effective realization of human rights in the country.  He said that the NHRC has a significant role to play but it can at best work as a catalyst in assisting efforts of the Governments, elected representatives, media and civil society towards safeguarding the rights of common people.

          Justice Balakrishnan said that the Governments must make certain that the policies and programmes devised by them have a strong human rights component to ensure a truly beneficial and equitable utilization of national and human resources.  It is the duty of each individual to respect the rights of the other and to dedicate ourselves to achieve a just and equitable society as enshrined in our Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

          On the occasion, Human Rights Day message of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon was read out by Ms. Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman, Director, United Nations Information Centre in India. The message emphasized upon all the Member States of the United Nations to fulfill the promise they made at the Vienna Conference for Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.

          On the occasion, the Vice President also released a number of NHRC publications, which included, among others, Manavadhikar Nai Dishayein, in Hindi; Journal on Human Rights in English; NHRC and Human Rights Defenders: the Growing Synergy; Living Conditions and Human Rights of Inmates in Prisons, in three volumes; Starvation, Malnutrition and Malnutrition related Deaths of Children in 15 Tribal Districts of Maharashtra, in two volumes; Report on the Implementation of the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995.  A photo and childrens painting exhibition was also mounted on the occasion highlighting the activities of the Commission.

          Earlier, Dr. Parvinder Sohi Behuria, Secretary General, NHRC welcomed all the guests and dignitaries.  Highlighting the role of the NHRC, she said that it is committed to the protection and promotion of human rights and the growing number of complaints received it show peoples faith in it.

          Earlier in the morning, NHRC Chairperson, Members, officers and staff took the human rights pledge in the Commission premises.


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