The above-mentioned priority areas will specifically work on the aspects highlighted below:Health
Environment, Climate Change & Human
Rights
Business and Human Rights
• Ensuring access to safe, affordable and
quality health care services and medicines
• Mental Health
• Conditions of hospitals (quality of services
and conditions of health establishments
including mental hospitals)
• HIV-AIDS, Silicosis and Substance Abuse
• Good health and well-being
• Conventional and non-conventional
energy and impact on employment
• Ensuring remedial and preventive
measures as to climate and environmental
degradation impacting Human Rights
• Conducting environmental and climate
impact assessments
• Ensuring implementation of the advisory
issued by the NHRC
• Spreading awareness
• Climate action and impact on employment
and to provide alternative employment.
• In its work towards providing a healthy
environment for all, NHRC will take
proactive measures in recommending the
govemment(s) to issue timely guidelines
and directions to the business houses
• Extensive referral from the UN Guiding
Principles on Business and Human Rights
Women and Children
Police and Prison Reform
Education
• Eradicating all forms of violence and
discrimination against women and children
• Ensuring Right to Water, Sanitation and
Hygiene (WASH) especially that of women
• Reproductive health of women
• Eliminating child pornography
• Juvenile Justice
• Shelter homes
• Human Trafficking
• Special training programmes for gender
sensitisation
• Eradication of torture
• Ensuring fair investigation of each and
every death in police custody and judicial
custody
• Comprehensive modules for training of
police
• Access to fair and speedy justice (free
legal aid)
• Reduction of undertrial prisoners in
correction homes
• Inclusion of issues pertaining to Human
Rights in school/college curriculums
• Promoting a better understanding of
Human Rights through training camps,
seminars, internship programmes etc.
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