Curtain raiser: NHRC-SHRCs meeting at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi tomorrow on 13th October, 2021

New Delhi, 12th October, 2021

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, India is organizing a meeting of National Human Rights Commission and State Human Rights Commissions, SHRCs, at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi tomorrow on 13th October, 2021. Justice Shri A.K. Mishra, Chairperson, NHRC will inaugurate it at 10:00 a.m. in the presence of NHRC Members, Secretary General, Chairpersons and Members of State Human Rights Commissions, and senior officers of NHRC and SHRCs.

Both the NHRC and SHRCs are setup under the Protection of Human Rights, PHR Act, 1993. But SHRCs are autonomous and independent bodies at State level and are not under the NHRC. However, being an apex human rights body, the NHRC has been taking up the issue of strengthening of SHRCs with the respective State Governments so that they may be able to work more effectively in fulfillment of their mandate under the PHR Act.

The aim of the meeting is to explore new areas of cooperation, share best practices and activities of different State Human Rights Commissions to work towards promotion and protection of human rights in a more cohesive manner.

Besides this, in the V Sessions of the meeting, there will be presentations on key issues of human rights, related laws, implementation mechanism and present situation. These include, among others, Probable areas of collaboration between NHRC-SHRC, monitoring the implementation of advisories issued by the NHRC, status of implementation of one nation-one ration card and the Food Security Act, 2013, integration of gender perspective, status of implementation of schemes and policies relating to informal workers.

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