Annual Report - National Human Rights Commission

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member team visited the Commission from 4-7 October 2004 to undertake the fifth institutional
assessment in the regional programme.
11.4 The purpose of the visit was to discuss the NHRC’s activities with regard to IDPs and
develop recommendations for the Commission’s consideration on means to enhance its role in
this area.
11.5 The team offered the following recommendations on the existing efforts:
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To enhance NHRC’s capacity on the issue of IDPs
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To promote greater understanding and dialogue on IDP issues
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Promotion of effective and comprehensive Law and Policy.
11.6 The recommendations of the Asia Pacific Forum’s IDP Projects team have been considered
by the Commission. A number of steps have been proposed to address this issue.
C] Human Rights Situation in Natural Disasters
a] Tsunami
11.7 Taking suo-motu cognizance of the calamity that arose from devastating tsunami waves
which hit large areas of coastal India, including Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Pondicherry,
Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala on 26.12.2004, the Full Commission, vide its
proceedings dated 13/01/2005, observed that:
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it is essential that the Government machinery involved in rehabilitation is able to take
all necessary steps for an equitable distribution of both relief as well as rehabilitation
measures while maintaining transparency and ensure that the poor, destitute women,
destitute children and all persons, who would be in greater need of the relief and
rehabilitation measures, are not deprived or made to suffer and are well taken care of;
in order to ensure smooth process of relief, the concerned State Governments/
Union Territories must at the earliest prepare and publicize a computerized list of
persons, dead or missing, because of tsunami disaster, as also list of the totally/partially
destroyed properties; as such authentic list would help in smooth settlement of insurance
and other claims of the victims and expedite the rehabilitation process and also help
the families to trace the missing persons;
(iii) to ensure that young widows and children were not sexually or otherwise exploited
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