There are gaps between the victims whose human rights are violated and the Government’s system that is put in place to ensure they are not. Non-governmental organisations working on the issue accept this fact and claim that they can be an answer to this.
While highlighting the gaps between the victims of human rights violations and the government’s system, Sunil Kispotta, chief of a human rights (HR) NGO namely ‘All India Human Rights Association’ (AIHRA) said that NGOs like his and others could feel these gaps.
He said that violation of human rights manifests in the State in ways more than one. He was speaking at the sidelines of a programme organised to assign posts to workers of the NGO from across the State. The programme was attended by Jharkhand Assembly speaker CP Singh and also city SP Manoj Ratan.
Sunil talked about the violation of rights of tribal populace, the children, the women and many other people from many other strata.
Talking about the human rights violations of tribal population, especially in the Naxal infected areas, he said those people were stuck between a hard place and a rock. And their prospects of leading peaceful lives have been doubly jeopardised.
“Police use the tribal populations as their informers without giving them any kind of identity card. And the same police catch these people and ostracise them accusing them of being the men of naxals. Also the naxalites bamboozles them accusing them of being the informers. This is so because both use them unofficially against each other without giving them identity cards,” he said.
He also said that rights of children when they were being employed in hotels as waiters, when they were kept out of schools because their parents could not finance their education
and when the girls are trafficked to Delhi and other cities for want of resources here.
The police were disinterested in hearing the problems of victims and they even deny to register FIR when victims approach them. Because the police believe that the “poor and uneducated” persons can’t do much about that.
“This is where NGOs can play major role. When such people come to us and we approach the police or the system they have to hear the cases. Because they know that we are aware of legal recourses unlike poor people and if they deny actions they would have to face legal consequences,” he said.
Explaining their strategies to ensure that human rights are not violated Sunil said that they would start an awareness campaign across the State from May 1st whereby they would raise awareness among people. So that they approached them in case their rights got violated.
In run up to their campaign the NGO assigned different posts to their 74 workers conversed at the programme. They have a network of more than 11,500 workers.