AiNNI [ All India Network of NGOs and Individuals Working with National and State Human Rights Institutions] ] stands along with the larger vibrant, vocal, non-compromising yet patriotic citizenry of this country whose stand has been vindicated through the report and recommendations of the 45th Session of the Sub Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) held March 2025 made public last night.
The decision to downgrade NHRC to ‘B’ status is historically the first downgrading of the Indian NHRC since its inception in 1993 and after its 2016, 2023 and 2024 deferrals. NHRC has challenged these recommendations under the GANHRI statute.
AiNNI hopes NHRC will upload this report on its website truly respecting the human rights principles of transparency and accountability.
AiNNI wishes to also record the small yet positive steps undertaken by the Indian NHRC, for the first time in history, under the leadership of Justice V. Ramasubramanian and wishes to express its willingness to work with and support the NHRC as a responsible civil society platform which has engaged with the NHRC ever since its inception as a platform in 2010 and through its forerunner, People’s Watch since 1995.
AiNNI wishes to place its gratitude to the SCA and GANHRI for this very fair and detailed assessment that it has undertaken and we do hope that this will path the way for a yet a stronger, independent, truly effective NHRC that this country badly requires.