Violation Of Human Rights

Human rights covers all those rights and privileges that a person is entitled to by the virtue of being a human. These rights are much talked about worldwide. Various legislators, thinkers, leaders, philosophers have preached about these rights and have brought about significant changes in the world. India, too, has had great patrons of human rights in history and still continues to have some. However, in spite of such great men in the country, India faces a huge problem of human rights violation with little efforts taken by the system to prevent it. Developmental aspects in India only include the economy and infrastructure but, social evils, in spite of being a great threat, are neglected and overlooked; people who come forward are conspired

everything possible for the propagation of human rights is realized. However, with great despair, human rights are not done justice to. Even with the increasing technology, education, life standards, human rights have little place in the Modern Indian Society. A miniscule section of the society really does take these rights seriously and are willing to take a step forward and make a stand. Very little percentage of the Indian population is known to be aware of their rights. And it is reported that more than fifty per cent people aware of their rights choose to neglect them. Superficially, India is the largest democracy in the world but Indians face ironic

Major factors that make it so complex is the population size and the diversity in them. The disparity is class, religious, age, sex and other aspects further gives rise to such issues. What makes the common problems of India, even worse, is that the standard of measurement of the issues in light, are not consistent with the global standards and don’t have a human rights approach towards them. The legislators made laws for setting up of the Nation Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) for every state. These would function as human rights courts in the country and would decide cases relating to such rights. However, the Human Rights Act, 1993, which goes back to two decades, has not been executed to its totality. For instance, according to a PIL filed in the Bombay HC, the Maharashtra SHRC has office bearer positions vacant for more than 2 years and the time taken to dispose off cases heard by these courts is beyond the time stipulated in the enactment. Many such loop holes in the execution of the various enactments continue to exist. However, after the enactment of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI), various activists, legal professionals, students and other civilians are empowered to question the authorities and their methods of doing things. The RTI is the common man’s weapon to challenge the system. It promotes accountability and transparency in the system. However, the past has seen