Ashwani Kumar | Reassert ‘core’ values & halt democracy’s decay
Published : Jan 9, 2021, 7:21 am IST
Updated : Jan 9, 2021, 7:21 am IST
As the highest forum of democracy, Parliament too cannot escape its share of responsibility for our faltering record on human rights
Indian Parliament (Image credit : Wikipedia)
In his book
The Age Rights (1990), Prof Louis Henkin, a celebrated scholar of international law, had claimed “
human rights is the idea of our time, the only political-moral idea that has received universal acceptance”. However, an objective analysis of the situation throughout the world, including India, belies that claim.
This disquieting conclusion flows from a distressing institutional response to the egregious infraction of human rights, raising a profoundly important question on the functioning of our democratic institutions. Repeated abuse of several stringent laws with punitive consequences has resulted from a reversal of the presumption of
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