Amnesty India sends submissions to land bill committee

Human rights organisation Amnesty International India has sent a submission to the joint parliamentary committee on land bill, flagging its concerns about lack of consent, social impact assessment and consultation under the amended legislation. In its seven-page submission, the organisation said that, “if passed into law in its current form, the Bill will undermine the rights of communities to participation and genuine consultation about issues that affected them and thereby facilitate and encourage forced evictions, prohibited by international law.”
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