The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the administration of Odisha’s Keonjhar district to ensure the needful action and submit the action taken report within four weeks on the denial of basic amenities and houses under government-sponsored schemes to the tribal settlers in two villages of the mineral-rich region.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change and the Secretary, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to submit Action Taken Reports (ATRs) on the alleged human misery due to displacement of 65,000 villagers of 591 villages in Odisha and other States.
Manual scavenging is one area that is being tackled legislatively, managed executively and supervised judicially to eradicate the practice. However, it is concerning that the deaths of sanitation workers are still happening despite the legal provisions to eradicate manual cleaning of sewage and hazardous waste.
Priyank Kanoongo requested the Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar to consider issuing guidelines to parties to refrain from using children in political activities.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended to the Odisha government ensuring availability of DNA profiling facilities in different hospitals and the proper preservation system of human bodies.
At the time of acquisition of land, some of the land owners were paid compensation while others did not receive the same.
The NHRC has passed the order recently acting on the petition filed by human rights lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy.
The National Human Rights Commission has directed the Superintendent of Police in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district to ensure necessary assistance including giving all relevant reports to the parents of minor victims who were allegedly raped by two policemen.
‘Human rights’ is probably the most abused phrase in the international political lexicon. The US, which is mindful of human rights violations in places as far afield as India, China and Venezuela, keeps mum when small children die on its border with Mexico or when the Israeli Army kills more than 20,000 civilians in Gaza, with active US support.
The apex rights watchdog passed the order acting on a petition filed by human rights lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy.
