INDIA: NDP Declaration for Indian Minorities Impacted by BJP Right-Wing Government
December 1st, 2022
Today, Justice For All Canada announces its support for a landmark NDP statement revealing the situation of minority persecution under India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
“For too long, Muslims, Christians and Dalits in India faced dehumanizing experiences and exclusion at the hands of India’s government. Canadians today applaud this NDP-led effort bringing attention and justice to Indian minorities to prevent further human rights violations against them.” —Taha Ghayyur, Executive Director.
Since the BJP’s rule in 2014, hate crimes against Muslims and other minorities have surged, with near impunity for perpetrators. Despite strong calls to action from human rights groups like Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the United Nations and Genocide Watch, there’s been little advancement on their recommendations.
Minorities in India are facing grievous threats to their lives and welfare under an increasingly right-wing Hindu extremist government.
For instance, BJP leaders have used their platforms to incite genocide and justify profound discrimination, hatred and violence against Muslims. Indian authorities have also consistently failed to hold accountable extremist groups, police officials and politicians involved in attacks on religious minorities.
Activists and journalists regularly come under attack under draconian “anti-terror laws” for criticizing the BJP regime inspired by fascism. The same authorities have also failed to register and investigate violence against religious minority women and girls in India.
The 2019 amendment to the Citizenship Act discriminates against Muslims, violating both the International Covenant on Civil Rights and the International Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination. India’s government has also intensified repressive settler-colonial policies in Indian-Occupied Kashmir after revoking its autonomy in 2019. Kashmiri civil society has since been subject to intense crackdowns on fundamental freedoms, such as censorship, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances of activists and journalists, including sexual crimes and unlawful killings.
Justice For All Canada, a nonprofit, nonpartisan global human rights organization, urges the Canadian government to answer its own calls to uphold the dignity, equality and protection of global minority groups. Since 2020, our team of advocates has helped Canadians petition the government to end its silence over atrocity crimes against minority and vulnerable communities in India.
We thank the NDP for its leading stance on this unavoidable human rights issue.
Today, Justice For All Canada announces its support for a landmark NDP statement revealing the situation of minority persecution under India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
“For too long, Muslims, Christians and Dalits in India faced dehumanizing experiences and exclusion at the hands of India’s government. Canadians today applaud this NDP-led effort bringing attention and justice to Indian minorities to prevent further human rights violations against them.” —Taha Ghayyur, Executive Director.
Since the BJP’s rule in 2014, hate crimes against Muslims and other minorities have surged, with near impunity for perpetrators. Despite strong calls to action from human rights groups like Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the United Nations and Genocide Watch, there’s been little advancement on their recommendations.
Minorities in India are facing grievous threats to their lives and welfare under an increasingly right-wing Hindu extremist government.
For instance, BJP leaders have used their platforms to incite genocide and justify profound discrimination, hatred and violence against Muslims. Indian authorities have also consistently failed to hold accountable extremist groups, police officials and politicians involved in attacks on religious minorities.
Activists and journalists regularly come under attack under draconian “anti-terror laws” for criticizing the BJP regime inspired by fascism. The same authorities have also failed to register and investigate violence against religious minority women and girls in India.
The 2019 amendment to the Citizenship Act discriminates against Muslims, violating both the International Covenant on Civil Rights and the International Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination. India’s government has also intensified repressive settler-colonial policies in Indian-Occupied Kashmir after revoking its autonomy in 2019. Kashmiri civil society has since been subject to intense crackdowns on fundamental freedoms, such as censorship, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances of activists and journalists, including sexual crimes and unlawful killings.
Justice For All Canada, a nonprofit, nonpartisan global human rights organization, urges the Canadian government to answer its own calls to uphold the dignity, equality and protection of global minority groups. Since 2020, our team of advocates has helped Canadians petition the government to end its silence over atrocity crimes against minority and vulnerable communities in India.
We thank the NDP for its leading stance on this unavoidable human rights issue.