Rapid technological and environmental changes have posed new human rights challenges, particularly for workers in the informal sector and those facing climate-induced displacement, former President Ram Nath Kovind said on Thursday.

“Economic progress must always walk hand in hand with human dignity… Climate change is no longer only an environmental concern and it is becoming a human rights imperative,’ Kovind said.

Addressing the 32 nd Foundation Day of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the National Conference on Human Rights of Prison Inmates, the former President said India’s progress must be measured not only in economic terms but in how it upholds the dignity and well-being of its most vulnerable citizens.

India has built a strong constitutional and institutional fra

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