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The country also has an independent judiciary [1] [2] as well as bodies to look into issues of human rights. [3] The 2016 report of Human Rights Watch accepts the above-mentioned facilities but goes to state that India has "serious human rights concerns. Civil society groups face harassment and government critics face intimidation and lawsuits ...
A member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan claimed in 2010, though without official record, that around 20 to 25 girls from the Hindu community, along with people from other minorities like Christians, are abducted every month and forcibly converted. [235] Many Hindus are continuing to flee Pakistan even now due to persecution. [236]
The act has been criticized by Human Rights Watch as a "tool of state abuse, oppression and discrimination". [4] The South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre argues that the governments' call for increased force is part of the problem. [5] "This reasoning exemplifies the vicious cycle which has been instituted in the North East due to the ...
Human rights organizations and newspapers across India believed that the massacre was organized. [5] [26] [27] The collusion of political officials connected to the Indian National Congress in the violence and judicial failure to penalize the perpetrators alienated Sikhs and increased support for the Khalistan movement. [28]
The 2008 Human Rights Watch report notes: India claims an abiding commitment to human rights, but its record is marred by continuing violations by security forces in counterinsurgency operations and by government failure to rigorously implement laws and policies to protect marginalised communities. A vibrant media and civil society continue to ...
Human rights movement refers to a nongovernmental social movement engaged in activism related to the issues of human rights. The foundations of the global human rights movement involve resistance to: colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, segregation, patriarchy, and oppression of indigenous peoples.
In August 2002 Shahid Ahmad Bakshi, an operative for the militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba planned to assassinate Modi, Pravin Togadia of the VHP, and other members of the right wing nationalist movement to avenge the 2002 Gujarat violence. [184] Human Rights Watch has accused the state of orchestrating a cover-up of their role in the violence.
The Human Rights Watch delegation concluded that "based on the frequency with which these killings were reported to take place and the consistency of the eyewitness testimony," such executions were not aberrations but in fact "the product of a deliberate policy known to high-ranking security personnel and members of the civil administrations in ...