National Human Right Commission
custodial deaths / rapes; sexual harassment by policemen; custodial torture;
false implication; illegal detention; bonded and child labour; atrocities on
scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and other disadvantaged groups; medical
negligence and lack of proper medical facilities in Government hospitals; death
due to negligence of various State authorities; inhuman conditions in jails and
shelter homes for children.
ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
Regional Public Hearing on Right to Health Care
2.32 A two-day Western Region Public Hearing on Right to Health Care was
organized by the Research Division of the NHRC in collaboration with the Union
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; Public Health
Resource Society, New Delhi and Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), in Mumbai on 6
and 7 January 2016. JSA is a civil society coalition consisting of over 20 networks
and 1,000 organizations as well as a large number of individuals working
for the health rights of the people across the country. The Regional Hearing
had the participation of the States of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
Government health officials from these States along with a large number of
complainants whose health rights were violated, including representatives of
non-governmental and civil society organizations participated in the Regional
Public Hearing.
Reconstitution of NHRC Core Group on Food
2.33 The Commission on 26 August 2015 reconstituted its Core Advisory
Group on Right to Food to advise it on issues relating to right to food in India.
The Core Group consists of 13 distinguished experts in the field of right to
food from the Government, Universities, non-governmental and civil society
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