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level of compliance with the following international instruments to which
India is signatory:
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW)
•
SAARC Declaration on the Girl Child.
6.6 The recommendations of the Commission are, at present, under the
consideration of the Central and State Governments. The Commission hopes and trusts
that they will be acceptable to the Government and that it will be advised in detail of the
response of the Government and of the action taken on the recommendations.
B] HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
6.7
The Commission finalised its recommendations on a range of issues relating to
Human Rights andHIV/AIDS in follow-up of the National Consultation on this subject
which it organised in New Delhi on 24 - 25 November 2000, in collaboration with the
National AIDS Control Organisation, Lawyers Collective, UNICEF and UNAIDS. The
issues covered in the recommendations included: consent and testing, confidentiality,
discrimination in health care, discrimination in employment, women in vulnerable
environments, children and young people, people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS
and marginalised populations. The recommendations of the Commission have been
sent to the concerned Governmental agencies for the initiation of appropriate action.
The detailed recommendations are available on the Commission's web site
www.nhrc.mc.in and may also be seen at Annexure 6.
6.8 The publication of the Commission on this National Consultation has been
widely disseminated and greatly appreciated. It has served as a key document in
discussions organised under United Nations auspices in Durban, in Colombo and in
Melbourne, on the latter two occasions the Asia-Pacific Forum of NationalInstitutions
joining as a co-sponsor of the discussions that were arranged. On all of these
occasions, the efforts of the Commission on this matter have been singled out for
recognition as the kind of action that National Institutions for the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights can usefully and constructively take to bring greater
understanding to bear on this complex subject.
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