The Supreme Court has summoned a response from the Center and all the State Governments on the delay in constituting human rights courts. What justice can be obtained from such courts soon?
According to the Human Rights Act, 1993, the fast track human rights court in every district of all states was to be constituted on the basis of the supervision and guidelines of the High Courts of those States, but this work too is still pending after years passed. The appointments of government lawyers in these special courts are also pending.
Among the rising cases of human rights abuses in India and various recent reports, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, is hearing a petition of Bhavika Phore, a student of Bench Law. According to the petition, fast track special courts should have been constituted for hearing cases of human rights violation in all 725 districts of 29 states and seven union territories which have not yet happened.
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) was made to replace the United Nations Human Rights Commission. The purpose of the council was to promote human rights in the world and to work in this direction. Its headquarters is in the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Its members meet three times every year, in March, June, and September.
The main function of the organization is to cooperate with UN Human Rights activists and to encourage international cooperation. It works on complaints received from individuals, groups, non-governmental organizations and investigates cases of human rights abuses. The Council works very closely with the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR).
HRC proposes to address the political stance of member countries. It does not apply legally, but at the moral level, they are considered to be very effective. These include talking about human rights issues such as freedom of expression, poverty, justice, etc. In certain cases, the Council may make an inquiry committee or bring special offers.
In its annual report presented in the year 2017, the OHCHR has mentioned 29 countries that have taken strong action against human rights activists. Out of these, only nine members of the country’s Human Rights Council came out. There was a dispute. After this, the Human Rights Watch report of 2018 has highlighted human rights abuses in countries such as Venezuela, Rwanda, China. All these countries are also members of the Human Rights Council.
According to the contents of the petition published in the media, the inevitable obligation of protection and protection of a person’s basic rights is of the state and for this, it provided every kind of assistance through courts to fight a less expensive, effective and soon justice suit. The statement of the India Human Rights Report 2018, issued by the Bureau of Human Rights in the US State Department, has been given in the petition. In the report, the status of human rights was described as alarming. There have been allegations like police brutality, torture, custodial death, bogus encounters, the plight of prisons, arbitrary arrests, illegal detention, false allegations, obstacles in litigation, etc. Although India has rejected the report, it has given the US admonition.
But the matter is not just of American reports. Other independent human rights organizations and agencies around the world have also responded to the record of human rights of India, whether it is Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch. Attacks of violence on Dalits, minorities, women, and tribals, or attempts to curb the freedom of expression – these institutions have not allowed such cases to be ignored.
Some groups in the country also accuse these organizations of spoiling the image of the country, and many times the human rights activists also get to hear unwanted comments like treason for tremendous behavior. But in spite of all the intentions, can it be denied that a ruthless indifference to human rights has risen here? Within the country, human rights activists and organizations have been raising their voices from time to time and for the last two and a half decades these wars have been complex and difficult.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) was established under the Human Rights Protection Act. This commission, set up in 1993, has kept its stand with courage and discretion in many cases so far, but the efforts of the commission to provide justice to the victims have been called inadequate.
Despite the commission’s own statutory power, the case of human rights violation, whether on behalf of the aggressive groups of society, looting, and oppression or on behalf of government machinery – no such fear of commission has been left to such powers. The political suppression of the commission’s actions and actions seems to show its effect. The powers that the Central Human Rights Commission and the State Commissions have received through the Ordinance, protect the Constitutional rights of the citizens.