G20: India has work to do on key human rights issues as world leaders gather in Delhi

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As India prepares to host the Group of 20, or G20, summit in Delhi on September 9-10, the capital is being feverishly cleaned up. To ensure that world leaders find the setting a little less chaotic than usual, schools, shopping malls, and offices will be closed for smooth traffic during the meet. The organisers are even taking steps to deter the ubiquitous visits by monkeys displaced from their forest habitat. But it may be proving more difficult to plan for a substantive conclusion when the world leaders gather. Amid heightened international disunity, India, which holds the G20 rotating presidency, is...