The National Human Rights Commission is holding a meeting of Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police of all States on 30 April 2002. This meeting will be preceded by a meeting of the Special Rapporteurs and Special Representatives of the Commission from different States, on 29 April 2002.

The meetings are likely to discuss the functioning of Human Rights Cells that have been set-up in the Offices of Directors General of Police of all States; Special Areas Security Act – Bills; atrocities on minorities and SCs/STs; compliance of directions of the Commission by the States; jail reforms including overcrowding in jails, regular inspection of jails, mentally ill prisoners, custodial deaths and rapes. The meeting will also discuss issues of economic, social and cultural rights like trafficking, bonded labour, child labour, rights of the disabled, manual scavenging, problems of denotified and nomadic tribes, child marriages, registration of marriages, sexual harassment of women in work place, rights of the mentally ill – conditions of mental hospitals, training of police officials, judicial officers and prisons administrators and inclusion of human rights in the in-service courses of all training institutions under the State Government.