Callous Indifferent attitude of Statutory Human Rights Bodies in respect of dealing starvation death and Hunger related issues in Odisha (Few case studies)

Human Rights Bodies like National Human Rights Commission, State Human Rights Commission has been constituted to protect human rights of the people in the country.  As  per  Protection of Human Rights Act,1993,  these  statutory bodies   are required to   hear  the  complaint cases  relating to violation of human rights  and give justice  to the  victims by directing appropriate authority  to take  action against the law violator  and  awarding   compensation to the affected persons.  But the callousness and  indifferent attitude  of  these  bodies  has  endangered  the life and  livelihood  of the  common people  and standing as  stumbling  block  for protection  of human rights. I cite  herewith  few examples  in this regard.

Compensate tribals who lost land, says right to food panel

Ajay Kumar,The Times of India

The advisor of the commissioner in the right to food case, Clifton D'Rozario, has submitted a detailed report to the central government on malnutrition deaths in Attapadi and recommended urgent welfare measures to support the tribal community. 

The report states the state government must constitute a special land tribunal to redress the grievances related to land alienations within one year. 

"More than 10,000 acres of land have been found to be alienated from tribals, hence urgent action must be taken to compensate this alienation,'' the report points out. 

A Film on starvation deaths in India

A Human Right Law Network( HRLN) Film on starvation deaths and the Right to Food Campaign in India.This is a film about the spectre of poverty and hunger, the starvation deaths that have stalked Indian villages as the tragic metaphoric threshold between the State as a mass murderer and the starving Indian farmer, mostly landless as the suicidal victim, or the slow, tortured, condemned prisoner of his(or her) hunger-driven fate. 

Asian Human Right Commission appeal regarding the death of 28 Children in Madhya Pradesh