Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 10: SOS International- An Organization for PoK Displaced Persons called for protecting the human rights of displaced persons from Pak occupied Kashmir.
While addressing a meeting of office bearers and executive members to observe Human Rights Day here today, Chairman SOS International Rajiv Chuni said that International Human Rights Day is observed across the globe on December 10 every year. These are moral principles or norms, which describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law. They are universally understood as undeniable fundamental rights “to which a person is intrinsically entitled simply because she or he is a human being,” and which are “inherent in all human beings” regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status.
Human rights of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) Displaced Persons has been violated in unprecedented manner as they have been bearing the agony for the last 7 decades and this period of their exile has been the worst example of Human Rights abuse of the most destitute community which witnessed terrible genocide of their near and dear ones. “Our country is front runner in suggesting other countries for protecting the Human Rights of destitute ones but it is unfortunate that India has failed to protect the HR of its own displaced community i.e. the people of PoK”, he added.
“Even though, India is member of United Nations but it is not a signatory of UN Refugee Law, therefore, the protection of Displaced Persons is confined to immorality taken by Government of India, leaving DPs with little protection for their civil and political rights and virtually no legal provisions for their safety and welfare. India has neither granted us the status of Refugee nor identified as Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), we were merely labeled as displaced persons and Government has never told us on what basis, we have been designated as displaced persons,” he added.
Prof JS Mangal, Prof NN Sharma, V K Datta, Ved Raj Bali and TR Sethi also spoke on the occasion.
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