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 | Unwarranted: Global body sermonises India Our Correspondent The capacity of professional protestors to indulge in humbug is indeed stupendous. Consider the unsolicited advice a group of international human rights organisations has given to the Indian Government. It has urged New Delhi to take "immediate steps" to implement the recommendations of a United Nations committee that expressed concern over allegations of "persistent violence and discrimination" against Dalits. The organisations include Human Rights Watch, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law, and the International Dalit Solidarity Network. "The UN Committee's concluding observations confirm that India has failed to properly protect Dalits and tribal communities," said Brad Adams, Asia Director of Human Rights Watch. "This is a prime opportunity for India to give its own policies on discrimination some meaning." He cited the report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which said that "de facto segregation of Dalits persists." It also talked about "systematic abuse against Dalits including torture and extrajudicial killings," an "alarming extent of sexual violence" against Dalit women, and "caste discrimination" in post-tsunami relief. The UN committee wants effective measures to implement laws on alleged discrimination. It also favoured affirmative action. While it is nobody's case that in India we have succeeded in building a society free from iniquities and birth-based injustices, it needs to be emphasised that the credentials of organisation asking us to take corrective measures are not very impressive. Apart from having failed to do anything positive for the people suffering from birth-based discriminations, the UN is frequently accused of promoting an agenda that is extremely divisive. Many analysts and commentators, for instance, have castigated the UN for being anti-Jewish. Celebrated American author David Horowitz wrote in 2001, "Some years ago, the UN gave a standing ovation to a cannibal named Idi Amin, and passed a resolution denouncing Zionism as racism. It was later dropped under US pressure." Further, the international do-gooders should realise that the Government and the society of India are quite aware of the problems the Dalits and tribals face here. There are not just many laws to protect them but also a free press that regularly highlights any atrocity against them. And, of course, there is the Opposition—of whichever party—that takes the ministers, bureaucrats and police to task whenever there is any report of any injustice against Dalits and tribals. In short, India is taking care of its poor people. It does not need any sanctimonious sermons from an organisation that has done little to uplift the poor and has actually tolerated—and sometimes feted—some of the worst tyrants in modern history. Posted on : 3/17/2007 Mail this article to your friend |