New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in its affidavit in the Delhi high court filed on February 13 has laid bare the government’s “national security” concerns of Greenpeace India’s anti-coal campaigns and said that the action by the immigration official [to offload Greenpeace campaigner Priya Pillai] was as per procedure and bonafide.
It has raised foreign policy concerns and cited examples to show how testimonies by campaigners can be used in reports made for the purpose of being used as “instruments of foreign policy” by the US, UK or European Union (EU). Since 2006, the European Parliament has already passed six resolutions against India on Dalit rights and one on violence against women. The content of these resolutions indicates that the Government of India and All Party Parliamentary Group on Tribal People and call for the EU to factor in this so called fact in its trade negotiations with India and Indian companies. This is a clear example of the use of human rights by certain nations/group of nations in order to forward the “core objective of their foreign policy.”
17/02/15 Meena Menon/The Hindu
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It has raised foreign policy concerns and cited examples to show how testimonies by campaigners can be used in reports made for the purpose of being used as “instruments of foreign policy” by the US, UK or European Union (EU). Since 2006, the European Parliament has already passed six resolutions against India on Dalit rights and one on violence against women. The content of these resolutions indicates that the Government of India and All Party Parliamentary Group on Tribal People and call for the EU to factor in this so called fact in its trade negotiations with India and Indian companies. This is a clear example of the use of human rights by certain nations/group of nations in order to forward the “core objective of their foreign policy.”
17/02/15 Meena Menon/The Hindu
