22nd Session of the Human Rights Council
CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE ADVOCACY
Read by: AWATAR SINGH SEKHON
GENERAL DEBATE:  AGENDA NO. 3  
Mr. President
My organization is here to address the plight of women and girls especially belonging to minorities who are constant victims of psychological and physical violence. It is disappointing that despite the unprecedented violence experienced by the women in India, the international human rights organizations and their respective administrations, the civil society have failed to persuade the government to eliminate divisions, and take punitive action against perpetrators of crimes committed against women and girls of the minorities.
Mr. President
Women and girls are more vulnerable than ever before. It is a horrible reality that incidents of rape have increased.  The largest democracy of the world has failed to deal effectively for the crimes against women.
The security forces have been playing their active role to suppress the freedom struggle which is legitimate and well recognized by the United Nations. Women being the direct victims of the physical violence, rape, abduction, murder and indirect victims of arrest, torture, disappearance, displacement and this translate into loss of loved ones. A study done by Medecins Sans Frontier’s in the mid 2005 revealed that minorities' women are the prime object of the sexual violence in the world, included are the Sikh women of the decade of 1980s and 1990s. Nearly 9000 cases of all ages have become victims of massive and brutal gang rapes and molestation.
My organization appeals to the Council to press India to end all forms of violence against the female sex in the larges democracy, so to speak. My organization also urges the Council to send Ms. Yakin Erturk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, to visit India to get the first hand information of the matter in question.                                I thank you, President