[VFA-family] HRW: Human Rights or anti-India Propaganda?

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VFA-family, vedicinst@a... wrote:

Human rights organizations and other NGOs are often a cover for other

vested

interests. Some reflect political biases, both left and right. Others

reflect

religious biases, and try to go where more overt religious or

missionary

activity is not allowed. Even big business uses them. Some are covers

for the

intelligence agencies of the countries they come from. This is

usually easy to see

by examining their membership or their funding.

 

Under the guise of protecting human rights, which may be of

minorities,

religions, individuals or certain segments of society, or even free

trade, such

organizations work their way into certain countries or regions and

then try to

impose their own ideas of how these groups should operate, taking

over the

political, intellectual or social leadership from the native people

themselves.

 

They often have a condescending, big brother attitude which rejects

traditional wisdom and indigenous cultures in favor of so-called

progressive and modern

values and practices.

 

The human rights card gives them an appeal, almost a sanctity and

often

prevents people from looking into their real motives and actions.

 

Such groups are often an extension of the old colonial 'let's

civilize the

world in the western model' vision, thinking that western democracy,

free trade

or individual human rights, which are basically materialistic models,

are the

answer to all problems. They are often destructive of traditional

social

orders, older traditions, and non-western value systems.

 

Of course, some of these groups do good work and are genuinely

seeking to be

of help, but they are unfortunately a minority.

 

We should be aware of these groups and how they operate and not

confuse their

cry for human rights, which may just be a cover, for what they are

really

doing.

 

Vamadeva

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