Caste, Discrimination and Human Rights: The UN’s Questions to India

For the first time since 2007, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has conducted a detailed review of India’s human rights situation, and the findings that have emerged from this review are deeply serious and thought-provoking. India had not submitted its report to this Committee for nearly two decades, which makes this review significant in more ways than one. In its report, the Committee has expressed deep concern over incidents of physical and other forms of violence committed by law-enforcement agencies against minority ethnic-religious groups, Dalits, and non-citizens in India over recent years. In the report released in Geneva, the Committee has clearly noted that it is gravely concerned by accounts of widespread violations by law-enforcement officials against ethnic-religious groups, tribal and Scheduled Tribe communities, Scheduled Castes particularly Dalits and non-citizens. The Committee has made clear that these violations include ethnically motivated violence, excessive use of force, extrajudicial killings, prolonged detention without due process, torture, ill-treatment, and sexual violence.

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