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Students of Universal School of Law successful Bengaluru got immoderate insights into quality rights and their exertion astir the satellite astatine a dialog organised successful the run-up to Human Rights Day.
At the lawsuit organised connected December 9, experts addressed the question: Why India ranks precocious connected GDP, but debased connected quality rights.
Dr. Justice Ashok B. Hinchigeri, Chairperson of Law Commission of Karnataka and erstwhile justice of Karnataka High Court, explained the assorted norms, issues and laws related to quality rights. He stressed that concern successful acquisition and healthcare is usually underrated, but is really 1 of the astir important contributors to upholding quality rights.
Salil Shetty, erstwhile caput wide of Amnesty International and erstwhile manager of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, addressing students astatine a dialog organised by Universal School of Law arsenic portion of Human Rights Day 2025 celebrations, successful Karnataka Government Employees’ Association Building successful Bengaluru connected December 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: Dhiraj Shetty
Salil Shetty, erstwhile Secretary General of Amnesty International and erstwhile manager of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, explained that marginalized sections of nine are the main beneficiaries of nationalist concern successful acquisition and healthcare. He said that radical who are well-off bash not patronize authorities schools oregon hospitals.
Expanding connected the taxable of quality rights, helium utilized information to explicate his constituent of view, but introduced an interactive constituent into the league by asking questions to the assemblage and seeking the sentiment of the students.
A item of the lawsuit was a video clip of an interrogation of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India, successful which helium shared his views connected democracy.
At the extremity of the session, the 2 experts took questions from the audience, immoderate of which dwelt connected the applicable exertion of laws, specifically those related to quality rights.
Human Rights Day is celebrated each twelvemonth connected December 10, which is the time connected which the United Nations General Assembly adopted, successful 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
R. Upendra Shetty, Chairperson of Universal Group of Institutions, presided implicit the event, on with Dr. Meera Krishnappa, Director, Education, Universal School of Administration), astatine Karnataka Government Employees’ Association Building successful Bengaluru.
