STATE CONSULTATION ON DISABILITY RIGHTS, PRISONERS RIGHTS, FOREST RIGHTS AND WOMEN’S JUSTICE.
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Worldwide one billion individuals have a disability. Many people with disabilities live in conflict settings or in developing countries, where they experience a range of barriers to education, health care and other basic services. In many countries, they are subjected to violence and discrimination. People with disabilities are also often deprived of their right to live independently, as many are locked up in institutions, shackled, or cycled through the criminal justice system. Many of these human rights abuses are a result of entrenched stigma and a lack of community-based services essential to ensuring their rights, including under the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
PRISONERS RIGHTS
The word prisoner means any person who is kept under custody in jail or prison because he/she committed an act prohibited by law of the land. A prisoner was also known as an inmate if anyone who against their will is deprived of liberty. This liberty can be deprived by forceful restrain or confinement. Prisoners' rights deal with the rights of the inmates while behind bars. Prisoners have basic legal rights that can't be taken away from them.[1]The basic rights include the right to food and water, right to have an attorney to defend himself, protection from torture, violence and racial harassment. Section 1 of the Prison Security Act1992, defines the term prisoner. The word prisoner means any person for the time being in a prison as a result of any requirement imposed by a court or otherwise that he be detained in legal custody.
FOREST RIGHTS
The Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006 recognizes the rights of the forest dwelling tribal communities and other traditional forest dwellers to forest resources, on which these communities were dependent for a variety of needs, including livelihood, habitation and other socio-cultural needs. The forest management policies, including the Acts, Rules and Forest Policies of Participatory Forest Management policies in both colonial and post-colonial India, did not, till the enactment of this Act, recognize the symbiotic relationship of the STs with the forests, reflected in their dependence on the forest as well as in their traditional wisdom regarding conservation of the forests.
WOMEN JUSTICE
Women’s Access to Justice is a conceptual framework for providing women with laws and remedies to enforce their rights under national and international law. However, a focus on policies and legislation alone is not enough. Transformational change is called for: bringing about systematic change in legal frameworks hand-in-hand with change in social and cultural norms, engaging entire communities.