Advisories National Human Rights Commission issued several Advisories during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequently to all the concerned Union Ministries and all the States and Union Territories to safeguard human dignity, life, and livelihood within the framework of democratic setup, some of which are named below: • Advisories issued during COVID -19 Pandemic: Combating Human Trafficking, ensuring the rights of women, children, elderly persons, LGBTQI+, tackling growing problems of mental health, protecting rights of prisoners & police personnel, ameliorating adversities of informal workers, protecting the interest of business communities, vulnerable tribal groups, release and rehabilitate bonded labourers, upholding dignity & protecting the rights of dead. • Advisories issued post Covid 19 Pandemic: Mitigating deliberate self-harm and suicide attempts by prisoners; prevent, minimize and mitigate Ocular Trauma; prevent human rights violations of truck drivers; prevent, minimize and mitigate impacts of environmental pollution and degradation of human rights; identification, treatment, rehabilitation and elimination of discrimination of persons affected by Hansen disease, Identify, release and rehabilitate bonded labourers, Right to food security and nutrition, Protection of human rights of the persons engaged in hazardous cleaning. Some of the salient features of important advisories are as below: a) Advisory to Prevent, Minimize and Mitigate Ocular Trauma • launching publicity campaign in print, electronic and social media • installation of posters and hoardings at hospitals, dispensaries, schools, colleges, industries/establishment prone to ocular trauma and other prominent places • inclusion of a chapter on ocular trauma in schools curriculum and curriculum of Industrial Training Institutes (it is) for the trades having potential to cause ocular trauma • Identifying the fire-crackers which have potential to cause eye trauma and impose a ban on use of such fire-crackers: in public places; by children below twelve years of age, except under direct supervision of an adult • Sponsoring projects for development of low cost indigenous safety eye protection for persons engaged in activities prone to eye injuries. • Making it mandatory to ensure availability of first-aid box containing medicines, bandages and regents to neutralize chemicals which may cause ocular trauma at all places where activities having potential to cause ocular trauma are carried out • Streamlining the care of patients with ophthalmic trauma by providing for emergency attendance and management of patients with ophthalmic trauma conditions with other departments like neurology, plastic surgery, etc. 18 | HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL www.nhrc.nic.in, covdnhrc@nic.in, @India_NHRC