EU must ask India to act on rights abuses

[beijingwalker]

EU must ask India to act on rights abuses
Brussels, Jan 21, 2013 (IANS):

The European Union should use its rights dialogue with India to encourage the government to ensure accountability for abuses and strengthen the protection of women, children, Dalits, and other vulnerable communities, Human Rights Watch said Monday.

The rights body said this in a letter to ambassador Joao Cravinho, head of the EU Delegation to India. The EU-India Local Human Rights Dialogue will be held in New Delhi Tuesday.

The EU should urge India to end effective legal immunity granted to state security forces under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the criminal procedure code for violations of fundamental rights, including torture, rape, and extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch said.

"The Indian government often has noble intentions when it comes to creating laws and policies, but too often the impact on the lives of ordinary Indians is minimal," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The EU-India rights dialogue is an important opportunity for the EU to help India turn good intentions into real changes."

The Indian government has recently taken some positive steps to improve human rights protections, including enacting a new law to protect children from sexual abuse and proposing amendments to existing laws on sexual assault. However, implementation will remain a challenge unless the government holds accountable the officials tasked to enforce the laws.

 

[I spikes therefore I am]

Usual rants better luck next time.............

 

[SwatCat]

Banned topic @mods close this thread.

 

[Gooo]

Banned topic @mods close this thread.

Indian human rights are appalling. Groping and raping women and caste systems. Indians are still not part of the civilised world.

 

[Icewolf]

India grants immunity to her security forces because she would overpopulate her jails if they were all sentenced in Kashmir!

India is a hypocrite!

 

[Götterdämmerung]

It's about time that we open our eyes and leave the Cold War of ideologies behind. India has been spared from criticism because it's a "democracy". Regardless how farcical India's "democracy" has been, criticising another "democracy" has been seen like a treason of oneself and this ideological blindness serves nobody well.

 

[KRAIT]

India with 1.2 billion, 1/7th of total world population.

India is not perfect. Its been Independent for 65 years.We are learning and changing a lot. Every other day changes are made by our Justice dept.

 

[KS]

 

[terranMarine]

Indian women don't feel safe period. Indians are breeding like rabbits and the population increases dramatically. What the country needs are more police and more night patrols.

 

[T90TankGuy]

Indian women don't feel safe period. Indians are breeding like rabbits and the population increases dramatically. What the country needs are more police and more night patrols.

this coming from a country with the largest population?

 

[HongWu]

It's time for NATO to end the barbaric regime in India and partition them so the Kashmiris, Dalits, tribals and other underclass can be liberated!

 

[Android]

What the country needs are more police and more night patrols.

No we have enough but we should make efforts in reducing political interference in their job. They should be given free hand in maintaining law and order situation and not make them lapdog of politicians. For example a decade ago a terrible riot took place in a state in india in which around 1000 innocent people died and thousands more injured and police didn't took any action against rioters because the Ruler of that state held them back.

 

[SwatCat]

Indian human rights are appalling. Groping and raping women and caste systems. Indians are still not part of the civilised world.

Your CCP destroyed your civilization in just more than 50 years and made you warmongering society, In today's Chinese Confucius spirit is hardly seen

 

[beijingwalker]

Your CCP destroyed your civilization in just more than 50 years and made you warmongering society, In today's Chinese Confucius spirit is hardly seen

How long have you lived in China?

 

[Ayush]

It's time for NATO to end the barbaric regime in India and partition them so the Kashmiris, Dalits, tribals and other underclass can be liberated!

barbaric?remember tiananmen?