Violation of Human Rights of Minorities in Odisha with special reference to Christians in Kandhmal District

Type Working Paper - International Journal of Humanities and Socia
Title Violation of Human Rights of Minorities in Odisha with special reference to Christians in Kandhmal District
Author(s)
Volume 2
Issue 3
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
Page numbers 35-41
URL http://ijhssi.org/papers/v2(3)/version-2/G233541.pdf
Abstract
The issue of human rights violation of weaker sections of society is increasing day by day all over the world keeping their life at stake. In every sphere of life, in country after country, human rights are being violated. Each violation of human rights, wherever it occurs is a great threat to the welfare and dignity of the human civilization. One can say that the status of democracy of a country can be judged by the status of human rights of minorities, particularly the religious minorities and weaker sections of society. But the reverse picture we can find in Indian society. Religious minorities in India particularly Christians and Muslims, suffer religious persecution daily, despite nominal protection guaranteed under Indian constitution. Belying any constitutional claim of religious freedom, both federal and state legislation included anti-conversion laws which were very detrimental to the religious minorities. An attempt has been made in this paper to highlight on the theoretical aspect of human rights violation of Christians in Kandhmal District in Odisha. The paper concludes analyzing the failure of state government as well as of public officials in protecting the vulnerable minority Christian community along with some remedial measures.

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