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c) Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
d) Chairperson of the National Commission for Women.
5.6
Together with the Chairperson and Members of the NHRC, the Chairpersons of these bodies
constitute its Statutory Full Commission (SFC), which meets regularly. In addition, the NHRC,
India invites the Chairperson of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights as a
‘Special Invitee’ to all its Statutory Full Commission Meetings since the NCPCR has a significant
bearing on all issues concerning the rights of children.
5.7
The Statutory Full Commission meetings are convened regularly to discuss the issues of
common interest and participate in the conference/seminars of the Commission. The last
meeting of the Statutory Full Commission was held on 27.11.2018 in the Commission to
discuss the comprehensive and punitive measures to protect the members of Scheduled Tribes
from the atrocities, Sexual Harassment of women at workplace, Right of women workers and
Children in unorganized sector and also to discuss the mechanism of Interlinking of Complaint
Management System (CMIS) of NHRC with the Deemed Member Commissions. The meeting of
the SFC was chaired by Justice Shri H.L. Dattu, Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission
and attended by Justice Shri P.C. Ghose, Member; NHRC Smt. Jyotika Kalra, Member, NHRC;
Shri Gurbachan Singh, Director General (Investigation); Shri Surajit Dey, Registrar (Law), NHRC;
Shri Dilip Kumar, Joint Secretary (Training & Research), NHRC; Dr. Ranjit Singh, Joint Secretary
(P&A), NHRC; Smt. Rekha Sharma, Chairperson, National Commission for Women; Dr. Nand
Kumar Sai, Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes; Shri Syed Ghayorul Hasan
Rizvi, Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities; Shri S.K. Ratho, Joint Secretary, National
Commission for Scheduled Tribes and Shri Sudhir Chandra, Director, NIC.
5.8
A range of issues was discussed at the meeting, i.e. (i) Comprehensive and punitive measures
to protect the members of Scheduled Tribes from atrocities as per provisions in the Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989; (ii) Sexual Harassment of women
at workplace; (iii) Rights of Women workers in unorganized Sector; (Iv) All the Commissions
i.e. National Commission for Scheduled Caste, National Commission for Scheduled Tribe,
National Commission for Women and National Commission for Minorities while taking care of
the interest / issues of the specific segments of population are especially required to take care
of the interests of Children belonging to these segments of population; (v) Sharing research
studies recently Commissioned by NHRC and (vi) Interlinking of the Complaint Management
Information System (CMIS) of NHRC with the National Commission.
5.9
The major recommendations emanating out of the meeting on 27.11.2018 have been circulated
to Secretaries of all stakeholders for information and necessary action.
E.
Special Rapporteurs of the Commission
5.10 The Special Rapporteurs of the Commission are human rights experts who are specifically
appointed with the directive to report and advice on human rights concerns from a thematic or
state-specific perspective. The system of Special Rapporteurs is a central element of the NHRC
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