Dimapur, December 10 (MExN): On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, Department of Political Science, Tetso College Dimapur conducted third round table conference on the theme, ‘Human Rights: Theory and Practice.”
Dr Rimmei Longmei, HoD in his address emphasized on the necessity of human Rights and commemoration of the International Human Rights Day and expressed concerns towards the effective implementation of Human Rights.
The keynote speaker, Dr Antony Raj focused on the evolution and violation of human rights in the context of farm laws and ongoing protests. His detailed account of impact of cooperative farming on regulating prices and vanquishing of minimum support price leading loss of remunerative prices to farmers and further inflating prices threatening the rights like life, food and livelihood.
The discussion was moderated by Dr Vijaya Chamundeswari, where students expressed their views on wide ranging topics like ‘Interface between International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law’ (Putionen Jamir), human rights violations and race and ethnicity (N Phewang Konyak), impact of climate change on human rights (Ningning Newmai), human rights and minorities (Hotoka Shohe) and human rights issues in India (Bothuvi Chishi).
Special invitee Major Gen N George (Rtd) discussed the role of army in protecting human rights and emphasized on the necessity of institutional building. He suggested the students as the forbearers of the upholding of rights to focus on implementation. He also shared his personal experiences and examples while discussing as to how Indian Armed Forces are fully committed to the ideals of Human Rights.
The second speaker, Prem M, focused on theoretical aspects of human rights in India and tried to relate liberal- communitarian and continental philosophies with continental philosophy. He ended his lecture with recent case relating to social inequality. The question and answer session was interesting with questions dealing with negative human rights. The thought provoking session started and ended with the statement ‘All human beings are born equal and free’.
