Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 10: Senior Advocate and Human Rights defender Ashok Bhan today delivering a guest lecture to the Law students of Delhi Law School as part of the celebration of Human Rights Day,
He said all sections of society in the country collectively including Kashmiris deserve respect to human rights doctrine and strive for end of violence. He said respect for human rights of all the sections of the society is Sine Qua Non for enforcement of Constitutionalism, justice, democracy, development and for winning the hearts of the people.
Bhan said that in South Asia the human Rights violation at the hands of terrorists is galore. “It is being encouraged by a nation state that pursues terrorism as an instrument of its national and foreign policy and brazenly provides all the overt and covert support by way of arms, funding, strategic and other logistic support including drone cover ups to terrorists indulging in the terror activities on the soil of India, especially in Jammu & Kashmir UT,” he added
While referring to Kashmir Pandits, Bhan said a native population of seven hundred thousand has been exiled by using the tactics of one targeted killing and scaring a thousand population in densely habituated areas of the Valley. The NHRC has held it to as akin to genocide. “Let us all the humans globally rise the occasion and condemn the human rights violations in any part of the world and collectively strive towards building peace and harmony besides ending bigotry, communalism and violence and promote human rights universalism,” he stressed.
Bhan further said that drug menace is currently a huge problem associated with terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir and vulnerable youth are dragged in this dangerous path by handlers of terror modules who are failed and loosing people’s so called moral support, because Kashmiris see them as representatives of doom, death & destruction
Bhan said women empowerment is a crucial aspect of fostering gender equality. Rights of children has a special emphasis in current human rights jurisprudence, he added.
“New challenges such as climate change, cyber crimes and natural disasters etc also contribute to human rights abuse,” he further said and stressed that holistic jurisprudence on human rights is required to take corrective measures and recommend to nation states the guidelines to be implemented.
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