India rebuked by UN discrimination watchdog

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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said India must do more to protect tribal peoples and lower castes from extrajudicial killings, torture and police violence, and address hate crimes against Bengali-speaking Muslims.

The committee, reviewing India for the first time since 2007, cited reports of racially motivated violence, arbitrary detention, sexual violence and excessive force by law enforcement against Dalits, Scheduled Tribes, Rohingya and migrants.

Committee members flagged a lack of accountability for hate crimes and noted that private-sphere racial discrimination isn't clearly prohibited by Indian law, undermining protections that exist only on paper.

India's delegation, led by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, responded by touting the country's 'pluralism, diversity, scale and complexity' and its constitutional safeguards, without directly addressing the specific abuses cited.

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Being told by an international panel that your laws against discrimination are fine but nobody enforces them is not the compliment India's delegation seemed to package it as. Answering allegations of torture and extrajudicial killings with a paragraph about pluralism is a rhetorical move, not a rebuttal.

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