North Eastern population chooses to reside in Delhi and other metropolitan cities for job and education mostly.
Abuses to NE citizens, women especially, like molestation, rape, harassment, sexual abuses in Delhi as well as in the adjacent cities has began to draw the concerns of the mainland.
While the UN has promulgated various measures to ensures for the maximum security of Women and Girl Children under the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Woman and Violence and to promote the tenets of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR), yet, the sense of insecurity and fears amongst Women in metropolitan cities are largely due to the disrespects and undermining shown to the NE people and their culture. people from NE are now becoming soft targets at work places, highways, buses etc.
Right of the indigenous tribal people to education, cultural and economic rights have been violated by the commission of unabated crimes against indigenous tribal peoples. Every right thinking person and intellectuals are beseeched upon to reckon their obligations to thwart any act which have the potential to deface the trueness of the great Indian democracy.
They are also called upon to preserve and protect the freedoms as provided and laid down by the Constitution; announced, promulgated and adopted at various International Human Rights conventions.
Zomi Human Rights Foundation demanded that law enforcement agency must bring the culprits to book at the earliest. Any omission on the part of any member of such agency must also be dealt with sternly.
The Schedule Tribes Commission should investigate into the matter and put forward the enquiry report to the higher authority to address the issues.
The Woman Commission in the Metropolitan cities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad etc must ensure for the safety of women from the North East India in their respective jurisdiction.
The Government of India should ensure and recognize strategic roles played by the North East Support Centre relentlessly and must also set up a rehabilitation program of all the victims of hate crimes and racial discrimination, Information and Publicity Department, ZHRF, GHQ demanded.
Source: The Sangai Express
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