Minorities’ Rights Day is observed on 18th December every year across the world. The day reminds us the true rights of minorities. Every nation has different ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities groups. It is the duty of State to provide all the rights to the minorities irrespective of their population and religion. There are hundreds of instances in the world when a particular minority group had to suffer because of policy discrimination.
To handle such situations and to stop the occurrence of discrimination against the minorities’ United Nations Organizations had adopted and promulgated the ‘Declaration on the Rights of Persons belonging to National or Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Minorities.’ United Nation had declared that-“States shall protect the existence of national or ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity of minorities and encourage conditions for the promotion of that identity”
The declaration was a huge step in protecting minorities’ groups all over the World and the 18th day of December is observed as ‘Minorities’ rights Day’ all over the world including India.
The National Commission for Minorities’ had given the direction upon all states in the year 1992 to observe 18th December every year as Minorities’ rights Day.
The West Bengal Minorities' Commission observed 23rd Minorities’ Rights Day on 18th December, 2015 at 02:00 p.m. at Ahindra Mancha, Kolkata with the theme, “Minorities’ education is vulnerable in present scenario and wave of rising intolerance”.
The guests who delivered speeches were:-
Other dignitaries also attended the programme.
There was an assembly inside the auditorium of about 350 comprising all six religious communities.
