NHRC, India
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
m.
SOP on Collection andProcessing of Scientific/Forensic Evidences in the case of Sexual
Assault on Women
6.17 The Publications Unit has been disseminating NHRC publications for creating awareness about
Human Rights to various stakeholders, academia and public in general.
F.
Training programmes
6.18 The Training Division of NHRC spreads human rights literacy through training programmes on
human rights issues through collaboration with Administrative Training Institutes (ATI), Police
Training Institutions (PTI), Judicial Training Institutes, University and Colleges approved by
University Grants Commission/All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and National
Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) accredited, and NGOs registered on Darpan Portal
of NITI Aayog. Apart from these, a one-month Internship Programme twice a year, i.e.,summer
andwinter, is organised by the Commission within its premises for the university/college students
of different States of the country and also Short-term Internship Programme of fifteen days
throughout the year for the students interested in the field of human rights. As part of its mandate,
during the year 2021-22, the Commission had released funds to various organisations institutions
for conducting 28 collaborative training programmes relating to various aspects of human rights,
which were successfully organised/conducted by various Institutions, Universities, Colleges, PTI,
ATI, NGOs all over India for human rights awareness and were attended by 2550 participants.
The activities of the Division in general suffered a huge setback on account of the spread of
Covid-19. The month-long winter and summer Internship Programme of the year 2021-22 could
not be organised by the Commission. Collaborative training programmes were also significantly
curtailed.
Internship Programme
6.19 This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the summer andwinter Internship Programmes-2021-22
could not be organised in the Commission in accordance with MHA guidelines. However, NHRC
has been conducting on-line internshipprogramme from the year 2020 onwards. In 2021-22,
NHRC conducted four online short-term internship programmes for a duration of 15 days each in
the months of July, September, and November 2021 and February 2022 in which 45, 74, 66 and
59 student interns participated respectively and totally 244 students successfully completed their
Online Short-term Internship with the Commission.
6.20 The Commission invited officers fromdifferent United Nations organisations,Chairpersons and
Members of State Human Rights Commission, very senior officers of the Government of India of
the rank of Secretary/Additional Secretaries, top rank officers of Indian Army/Air Force/Indian
Navy, Chiefs of CAPF, Special Rapporteurs, Special Monitors, representatives of eminent NGOs,
academicians, medical doctors, renowned Gandhians, etc. to address and interact with the student
interns online through Google Meet/Webex platforms in all the Online Short-term Internship
Programmes.
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