UN Human Rights Council and India

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UNHRC’s observations on India

2025 March

March 5, 2025: The Times of India

New Delhi : India slammed UN human rights chief Volker Turk for his remarks on the situation in J&K and Manipur, advising his office to take a “long and hard look in the mirror” if it truly wanted to address “pervasive unease” he mentioned in his Global Update to the UN Human Rights Council.
India’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Arindam Bagchi, called the remarks “unfounded and baseless” as he said that India the world’s largest democracy continues to be a healthy, vibrant and pluralistic society. “Unfounded and baseless comments in the Update contrast jarringly with ground realities. The people of India have repeatedly proven wrong such misplaced concerns about us,” said Bagchi. He called for a better understanding of India and its civilizational ethos of diversity and openness, which continue to define its “robust and often cacophonous civic space”. “Nothing illustrates this divergence more than the passing reference to J&K, erroneously referred to as Kashmir, ironically in a year that stood out for that region’s improving peace and inclusive progress,” said the Indian ambassador. “The High Commissioner has sensed a pervasive unease, but we would submit that a key element to addressing this is a long and hard look in the mirror by the office of the high commissioner,” said Bagchi.


Turk had called for “stepped-up” efforts to address violence and displacement in Manipur, “based on dialogue, peacebuilding and human rights”. Turk added he is “concerned by use of restrictive laws and harassment against human rights defenders and independent arbitrary detention and a including in Kashmir”.