{"id":50713,"date":"2019-07-30T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=50713"},"modified":"2019-07-30T15:54:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T10:24:47","slug":"7-pm-change-without-reforms-30th-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-change-without-reforms-30th-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"7 PM | Change without reforms | 30th July, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong> Protection of Human Rights (Amendment)\nBill 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More in news:<\/strong> The Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill 2019\nrecently passed by both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to amend \u201cThe Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Human\nRights:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human Rights mean\nthe rights relating to life, liberty, equality and dignity of the individual\nguaranteed by the Constitution or embodied in the International Covenants and\nenforceable by courts in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nProtection of Human Rights Act, 1993 was enacted to provide for the\nconstitution of a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the State Human\nRights Commission (SHRC) and the Human Rights Courts for protection of human\nrights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Need of Amendment: <\/strong>The\nNHRC has proposed certain amendments to the Act to address the concerns raised\nat certain global platforms. Besides this, certain State Governments have also\nproposed for amendment of the Act, as they have been facing difficulties in\nfinding suitable candidates to the post of Chairperson of the respective State\nCommissions owing to the existing eligibility criteria to the said post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Difference between \u201cThe Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993\u201d and \u201cThe Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill 2019\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/the-national.jpg?resize=519%2C605&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50716\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/the-state.jpg?resize=577%2C519&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50717\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Concerns: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The NHRC\u2019s main\nfunction is to inquire into complaints of violation of human rights. But it\ncannot execute its decisions based on its findings. For that, NHRC has to\ndepend either on the central or state government or on the judicial hierarchy\nin the country from the top court down to magistrates. The statutory provisions\nto this effect are not touched by the new amendments.<\/li><li>Under the\ninitial NHRC law, its two non-judge members had to be \u201cpersons having knowledge\nof or experience in matters relating to human rights\u201d. The number of such\nmembers has now been raised to three including a woman member, but the\nimprecise provision of keeping the coveted positions open to any person of the\ngovernment\u2019s unguided choice remains unchanged.<strong><\/strong><\/li><li>International\nhuman rights jurisprudence is a fast-growing legal discipline and there is\nneither a dearth of eminent scholars specialising in it nor any known human\nrights activist has been selected for the membership of the commission.<strong><\/strong><\/li><li>The\ncommission will have more adjunct than full-timer members with the new\namendments. However, instead of the heads of its sister-bodies engaged in\nclass-specific work, it would have been more fruitful to associate with NHRC\nrepresentatives of a few leading NGOs, promoting human rights in general.<strong><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion: <\/strong>The\nProtection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill, 2019 has brought some of the major\nchanges in the composition and functioning. However, the concerns that NHRC and\nSHRC faces in promoting human rights still remained. For the protection of\nhuman rights, NHRC needs holistic reforms which are somewhere remained\nuntouched by the new legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/nhrc-human-rights-amendment-bill-parliament-narendra-modi-bjp-5861745\/\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/nhrc-human-rights-amendment-bill-parliament-narendra-modi-bjp-5861745\/<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill 2019. More in news: The Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill 2019 recently passed by both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to amend \u201cThe Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993\u201d. Human Rights: Human Rights mean the rights relating to life, liberty, equality and dignity of the individual guaranteed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-change-without-reforms-30th-july-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 PM | Change without reforms | 30th July, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-pm","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7-PM.png?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704762685},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50713","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=50713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}