India faces criticism from UN discrimination watchdog
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says India urgently needs to tackle hate crimes against Bengali-speaking Muslims and increase protections for other groups. A United Nations watchdog has said India must step up protections for tribal peoples and disadvantaged castes facing extrajudicial killings, torture and other violence by law enforcement.
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- Fact 1: CERD is a panel of 18 independent rights experts that monitors compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by the 182 countries that are party to it.
- Fact 2: Under the convention, which entered into force in 1969, countries must eliminate racial discrimination, eradicate practices of segregation and ensure equality before the law.
- Fact 3: India appeared for review before CERD earlier this month, for the first time since 2007, with Solicitor General Tushar Mehta leading its delegation.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says India urgently needs to tackle hate crimes against Bengali-speaking Muslims and increase protections for other groups. A United Nations watchdog has said India must step up protections for tribal peoples and disadvantaged castes facing extrajudicial killings, torture and other violence by law enforcement.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) also said that the world’s most populous nation urgently needs to tackle hate crimes against Bengali-speaking Muslims. Bangladesh-India reset stalls over Hasina: What would break the deadlock? Pakistan says significant progress made in talks on Iran-US war Rohingya refugees protest, nine years after exodus to Bangladesh “The committee was gravely concerned about reports of large-scale violations perpetrated by law enforcement officials against ethnic and ethno-religious groups, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, including Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, particularly Dalits, and non-citizens,” it stated in a release on its findings on Tuesday.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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