Did the Shadow Report from India help to question the Indian government?
It is interesting that national organisations like the National Alliance of Women’s Organisations have a comprehensive process whereby they reach out to an extensive network of women’s groups. The report put together was edited by five or six women who have the competence necessary for the task. Largely based on this, the Committee specifically recommended that the government report back later on the status of cases with regard to the Gujarat carnage (in 2002). Women’s groups actually relayed valuable information showing that these cases were being delayed; victims of rape and violence have not got justice… At the end of the review process, as concluding observations, the Committee comes out with a set of recommendations; it could be on reforming the law or a policy that is discriminatory or flawed. In the next four years, the government is meant to implement these recommendations. Women’s groups should be following up on what the government is doing, or not doing. Can the recommendati
