India has asserted that human rights should not be used as an instrument of political pressure or selective targeting of countries, as it opposed attempts to turn allegations and incomplete statistics into a “negative characterisation” of the world’s largest democracy.
Ms. She underlined that human rights should not be used as an instrument of political pressure or selective targeting of countries. Tamrakar delivered India’s statement at the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, on the agenda item concerning the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances, in New York on Tuesday (October 20, 2026).
“India engages with international human rights mechanisms, but such engagement must be based on dialogue, consultation, cooperation with non-selectivity and transparency as guiding principles,” Barkha Tamrakar, Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, said. “We call on delegations to cite the report faithfully, not to inflate a humanitarian communication into a verdict,” she said. India remained prepared to clarify specific, properly documented cases through established channels, but formally opposed any “attempt to convert unverified allegations, incomplete statistics or a report that contains no India country observation into a negative characterisation of the world’s largest democracy,” Ms. Tamrakar said.
