Universal Periodic Review

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted the report on the review of the human rights situation in India on May 9 with as many as 250 recommendations by 103 foreign governments.

Key Recommendations

Some of the recommendations for India include the following

• India has been asked to ratify the UN convention against torture and eliminate the death penalty; de-criminalize same-sex consensual relationships; develop national strategy to tackle exploitative labour practices and ratify the 2014 ILO protocol to the Forced Labour Convention.
• Many countries asked India to criminalize marital rape by removing the exception of marital rape from the ....