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The Other Side of India: A Rights Record Overlooked

Human Rights Watch's South Asia director discusses the human rights record of the world's largest democracy.

Date & Time

Monday
Mar. 4, 2013
4:00pm – 5:15pm ET

Location

5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

To talk of India is to invoke generalizations: The world’s “largest democracy,” an emerging world power, a destination for outsourcing, a nation of both extraordinary economic growth and enduring poverty. Less often discussed is India’s basic human rights record—one that Human Rights Watch has described as very poor, featuring extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances in conflict areas, torture in police custody, attacks on human rights defenders, failures to protect and promote women’s and children’s rights, curbs on Internet freedom and freedom of expression and association, and a general lack of protection for marginalized groups, particularly Dalits, tribal groups, religious minorities, women, and children. Meenakshi Ganguly will discuss her organization’s work to document these abuses and efforts to raise awareness of India’s rights record.

Human Rights Watch recently released a report on child sex abuse in India. It also recently released its annual world report, which contains a chapter on India. Other relevant reports can be found on Human Rights Watch's main India webpage.

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Meenakshi Ganguly

South Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
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Indo-Pacific Program

The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region.   Read more

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