Why did the UN committee urge India to address ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crimes’?
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called on India to suspend NRC, and revise Special Intensive Revision; it also noted that more than nine million people have been disenfranchised in West Bengal because of the SIR
On August 25, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) urged India to address issues of "hate speech" and "hate crimes" after reviewing the country's human rights record. The committee expressed "grave concern" over reports of excessive use of force, arbitrary detention, and torture by law enforcement officials against vulnerable communities, including Scheduled Tribes, Dalits, and non-citizens.
The committee recommended India to review the Special Intensive Revision process, which affected approximately 52 million individuals, particularly impacting Bengali-speaking Muslim voters in West Bengal and Assam. Furthermore, the committee urged India to prevent hate speech targeting migrants, asylum seekers, and Rohingya Muslims, and called for the protection of their rights by investigating reported abuses thoroughly and impartially.
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