Home Minister P Chidambaram today said indigenous people have the right to acquire all modern amenities and become part of the mainstream. Addressing a function in New Delhi today on the occasion of Human Rights Day, he urged the National Human Rights Commission, which organised the function, to explore new rights.The Home Minister said though the rights of children have been accepted; the special rights of the girl child are yet to be fully explored. He said thousands of young girls are married off in the country even before they can speak of their rights.<br/><br/>The Minister said even small countries that have homogeneous population, speak one language, practice one faith and belong to one race and raise issues concerned to human rights.<br/><br/>
News On AIR | December 10, 2009 4:46 PM
Indigenous people have right to modern amenities: Chidambaram