Improving India's position on Human Rights

According to http://www.legalserviceindia.com/articles/huri.htm whilst human rights legislation exists, it does not clearly define how and by who offences should be judged and therefore remains a broken framework. Improving this legislation would be a basic starting point to improving the position internationally.

Firstly is seems an amendment is required so that session judges are given authority to preside over cases under the human rights act

I don't think it can be changed in isolation. Unless we stop the tribal/gang mentality of supporting everything 'our' gang/party/group does and opposing only 'them'. Only if people stand up when their own side violate rights, we can fix this. As long as CPIM or Congress or TMC only talk about rights violations of BJP and remain silent about violation by their govts, we can't fix.

For example CPIM opposed UAPA when they were in opposition and used it when they were in power and no CPIM supporters spoke against it. This was something they could have fixed if they wanted to, since it was their own government.

In the same way BJP supporters seem to recognize human rights violations in Myanmar only.

But we can think about amendments to current law, if we ever get power.

What I mean is that the legislation already exists but requires refinement for it to work properly. This allows the courts to have jurisdiction and for citizens themselves to use the courts to set precedent - rather than relying on any political party or government to achieve it.

also, having a citizen based bi partisan human rights panel to decide on how well India is performing, rather than relying on foreign organisations would go some way to dispelling the human rights vs sovereignty argument