Providing an Improved Environment for
Human Rights in The Country(India)
While human like rights institutions the NHRC have a significant
role in the promotion and protection of human rights, the contributions of
civil society actors and the state are just as crucial
An informed discussion on how to provide
an improved environment for human rights in the country, and how to achieve
social justice through human rights is very necessary. Social justice, as the
American philosopher John Rawls
pointed out, ‘is predicated on the idea
that a society can be regarded as egalitarian only when it is based on
principles of equality and solidarity, where human rights are valued and the
dignity of every individual upheld.’ A just society is one which provides a
degree of protection to its weaker, differently-abled and less gifted members.
It is not one where the law of the jungle prevails, where might is right. In a
civilized society, reasonable constraints are placed on the ambitions and
acquisitiveness of its more aggressive members and special safeguards provided
to its weaker and more vulnerable sections. These considerations are basic to
any scheme of social justice and their neglect will brutalize society. In a
limited sense, the right to social justice may be said to be the right of
the weak, aged, destitute, poor, women, children and other underprivileged
persons, to the protection of the State against the ruthless competition of
life. It is a bundle of rights, in another sense it is a preserver of other
rights. It is the balancing wheel between haves and have-nots.