{"id":8316,"date":"2009-10-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/06\/un-set-to-treat-caste-as-human-rights-violation\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T12:00:00","slug":"un-set-to-treat-caste-as-human-rights-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/06\/un-set-to-treat-caste-as-human-rights-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Set To Treat Caste As Human Rights Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/UN-set-to-treat-caste-as-human-rights-violation\/articleshow\/5063457.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 28, 2009: The ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva looks set to recognize caste-based discrimination as a human rights violation. This, despite India&#8217;s opposition and following Nepal&#8217;s breaking ranks on the culturally sensitive issue.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal has emerged as the first country from South Asia &#8212; the region where untouchability has been traditionally practiced &#8212; to declare support for the draft principles and guidelines published by UNHRC four months ago for &#8220;effective elimination of discrimination based on work and descent&#8221; &#8212; the UN terminology for caste inequities.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden, in its capacity as the president of the Europeon Union, said, &#8220;caste-based discrimination and other forms of discrimination based on work and descent is an important priority for EU.&#8221; If this issue continues to gather momentum, UNHRC may in a future session adopt the draft principles and guidelines and, to impart greater legal force, send them for adoption to the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The draft principles specifically cited caste as one of the grounds on which more than 200 million people in the world suffer discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 28, 2009: The ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva looks,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}