{"id":35202,"date":"2018-10-31T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35202"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:15:58","slug":"no-plan-yet-to-deport-rohingya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-plan-yet-to-deport-rohingya\/","title":{"rendered":"No plan yet to deport Rohingya:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/no-plan-yet-to-deport-rohingya-says-rijiju\/article19668222.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No plan yet to deport Rohingya<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> States have been asked only to identify \u2018illegal\u2019 immigrants so far and act as per procedure<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the united nation\u2019s opinion?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein has asked India to not carry out collective expulsions where they risk torture or other violations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mr. Rijiju, while reacting to Mr. Hussein\u2019s statement had stated that the United Nations and other international organizations do not understand the internal security or national security problems of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is India\u2019s stand?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an official communication issued on August 8, the Home Ministry directed the States to conduct surveys and prepare to deport Rohingya in a continuous manner.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawyer Prashant Bhushan moved the Supreme Court against the order to \u201cprotect their life and liberty\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court will hear the matter on September 18<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addressing the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva Mr Hussein insisted to halt India from deporting Rohingya at a time of such violence against them in their country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some 40,000 Rohingya have settled in India and 16,000 of them have received refugee documentation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What does the law say?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Minister of State for Home Affairs has reportedly said that because India is not a signatory to the Refugee Convention, the country can dispense with international law on the matter, together with basic human compassion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> However, by virtue of customary law, its ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the obligations of due process and the universal principle of non-refoulement (a number of international instruments relating to refugees), India cannot carry out collective expulsions, or return people to a place where they risk torture or other serious violations.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India\u2019s shift in position on the Myanmar issue was prompted by a series of requests from the Bangladesh government \u201cat the highest levels\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No plan yet to deport Rohingya: Context States have been asked only to identify \u2018illegal\u2019 immigrants so far and act as per procedure What is the united nation\u2019s opinion? United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein has asked India to not carry out collective expulsions where they risk torture or other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-plan-yet-to-deport-rohingya\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No plan yet to deport Rohingya:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704422721},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}