Imphal, December 1 (NNN): The Civil Society on Human Rights in Manipur and the UN (CSCHR) on Thursday expressed happiness to announce the submission of the ‘Status of Human Rights in Manipur’ for consideration in the second round of Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Government of India to be held in May, 2012.
The UPR is a new mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council established in 2006 to review the international human rights obligations of each of the 193 member states of the UN by other member states, said CSCHR, a conglomerate of 14 different human rights groups of Manipur, in a statement.
It said the first round of UPR was completed in 2011 and India was reviewed on April 10, 2008 wherein the Governments of UK, Germany and Canada raised the issue of "Armed Forcers (Special Powers) Act" and 18 recommendations were issued to India by the Human Rights Council.
The second cycle of UPR is beginning 2012 when the Government of India will be reviewed again in the last week of May 2012, said the human rights organization.
For this review, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) will place three documents for the review—the report submitted by the Government of India, the compilation of the records of UN human rights mechanism on India, and the summary of stakeholders’ reports from NGOs and National Human rights Institutions—CSCHR added.
The submission of the CSCHR focused on the trend of human rights violations of the Government of India in Manipur since the first review of India’s human rights in 2008.
The UPR is a new mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council established in 2006 to review the international human rights obligations of each of the 193 member states of the UN by other member states, said CSCHR, a conglomerate of 14 different human rights groups of Manipur, in a statement.
It said the first round of UPR was completed in 2011 and India was reviewed on April 10, 2008 wherein the Governments of UK, Germany and Canada raised the issue of "Armed Forcers (Special Powers) Act" and 18 recommendations were issued to India by the Human Rights Council.
The second cycle of UPR is beginning 2012 when the Government of India will be reviewed again in the last week of May 2012, said the human rights organization.
For this review, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) will place three documents for the review—the report submitted by the Government of India, the compilation of the records of UN human rights mechanism on India, and the summary of stakeholders’ reports from NGOs and National Human rights Institutions—CSCHR added.
The submission of the CSCHR focused on the trend of human rights violations of the Government of India in Manipur since the first review of India’s human rights in 2008.
