A research organisation named, The Centre for Policy Analysis (CPA), has presented the first global minority report based on every nation’s approach, inclusiveness, treatment and discriminatory practices towards their respective religious minorities. The report was published by former Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu, and takes into account many parameters like human rights, religious freedom, inclusivity of minorities into the state and discriminatory policies towards religious minorities.
India has claimed the first ranking in the first global minority report among every other nation. The report based on the promotion of religious diversities declares that India’s inclusive policies towards religious minorities is exemplary. As no other nation in the world present special or exclusive constitutional provisions to safeguard the equity towards religious minorities. Promotion for diversity is embedded into the very constitution of the nation, thus making India the first in the world for inclusiveness of religious minorities.
South Korea has taken second position, followed by Japan, Panama and the United States of America on the third, fourth and fifth position respectively. Neighbouring country of Nepal captured 39th position in the list while China and Bangladesh are on 90 and 99 respectively.
The list has placed Pakistan on 104th position and Russia on 52nd. United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates are on 54 and 61 rankings respectively. Militant Organisation run nations like Afghanistan and Somalia are at the bottom of the list of 110 countries.
Executive Chairman of the CPA, Durga Nand Jha has said in a statement that the report has been developed on the approach of the state towards minority religions and the policy and practices of the state towards religious minorities inhabiting a nation. He added that the conferment of exclusive rights and safeguarding laws from the state should be conditional to the fulfilment of certain obligations on behalf of the religious minorities.
Being part of a nation, the religious minorities should safeguard the national interest and integrity of their respective nations. Individuals should consider themselves as a citizen of the nation first, and should have some responsibility towards the state. Acts of challenging the sovereignty of the state by religious minorities should be avoided at all times as it will inevitably propel the nation into conflict and chaos .
The Global Minority Report is classified into three sections: the first section addresses the conceptual issues of human rights, minority rights, religious freedom. The second section discusses the minority policies of various nations while the third section is the statistical segment of the report formed by the four different indices, State Discrimination index, State Religion Neutrality Index, Global Minority Index and State Inclusive Index.
The report also addresses the G20 nations in the end as well as recommendations for the United Nation (UN) and other countries based on the outcome of the study. Out of the various recommendations, the report also suggested that the UN makes it compulsory for every country to submit an annual minority rights compliance report regarding the declaration and preservation of minority rights.
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