Lok Sabha passes Protection of Human Rights Bill
India | July 19, 2019 18:14 ISTA Bill to protect the rights of "right people", including vulnerable, farmers and financially backward persons, was on Friday passed in the Lok Sabha with voice vote.
A Bill to protect the rights of "right people", including vulnerable, farmers and financially backward persons, was on Friday passed in the Lok Sabha with voice vote.
The hearing came on the anniversary of the Chinese government's violent crackdown on student demonstrators who occupied Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
"Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora (GKPD) will take up the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Pandits strongly at the UN and other important world fora as well as reputed human rights organisations in different countries of the world to build consensus of opinion on the issue," GKPD Chairman K L Chowdhury told reporters.
First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Paulomi Tripathi was speaking at a General Assembly 3rd Committee session on 'Report of the Human Rights Council' on Friday.
Addressing the silver jubilee foundation day event of the National Human Rights Commission in New Delhi, Singh said that the human rights are not based on any religion.
The UN secretary general was responding to questions on whether he supports an independent international probe into the human rights situation in Kashmir.
The UN, earlier in June, had released the first-ever report on alleged human rights violation in Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and demanded an international probe into it, evoking a sharp reaction from India which had termed the document as "fallacious and motivated".
Protecting the human rights of the ordinary citizens in Kashmir was important, said the union minister.
In response to a question on the report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on “The human rights situation in Kashmir”, the official spokesperson said: "India rejects the report. It is fallacious, tendentious and motivated. We question the intent in bringing out such a report."
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India has asked Myanmar to ensure security to prevent further Rohingya exodus and encourage their safe and sustainable return from Bangladesh.
Akbaruddin said that New Delhi was concerned about the matter concerning illegal immigrants, who could be a challenge to its security
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