Our
Activity
To work for ensuring that basic human rights are respected
everywhere.
To co-operate to avoid compromising on human rights for
economic or political expediency.
To recognize democratic institutions as a fundamental human
right.
To work towards the sovereignty and self determination of
entities with historical, cultural and ecological identity.
To restrict cooperation with governing regimes that violate
human rights.
To actively engage with the government of India and other
countries to promote human rights education.
To bring diplomatic and commercial pressures on regimes that
violate human rights, to ensure that they respect the basic rights of their
citizens.
To keep the interests of disempowered communities foremost
in all dealings with countries in which human rights violations occur.
To support the end of colonization and press for resolution
of colonial conflicts through the U.N. frame work.
To develop a more distinctive and effective role for the
international court of justice in the field of human rights.
To support through the U.N. framework, democratic and
economic reforms in countries coming out of totalitarian control.
To promote a culture for educating the citizenry that
cultivation and promotion of human rights culture is the sine gua non for the
smooth functioning of the organs of a democratic state and for the kind of
development that results into overall development of the society.
To train the young men and women for facing the challenges
of the pluralistic society and the rising conflicts and tensions in the name of
particularistic loyalties to caste, religion and culture.
To study the effects of draconian laws and unlawful use of
state's machinery and force by the enforcement agencies.
To prepare case studies on the rising custodial deaths,
killings, encounters and related issues for ensuring that human rights
education must address the need of evolving new structures of knowledge and
accountability to impart new skills and sensitivities amongst holder’s of state
power so as to make them more responsive to the culture of human rights and
values of democracy.
To help stop legal social and economic discrimination
against women and their exploitation in defferent ways.
To promote human rights education as a catalyst in bringing
out attitudinal and social change among the management of fire works, glass,
stone crushing and related industries for reducing the prevalence of child
labour in these and other hazardous industries to zero.
To create an environment as well as an understanding that
human rights can easily become vulnerable to abuse of various structures and
processes of power.
To ensure comprehensiveness and incorporation of national,
regional and international perspectives related to human rights.
To study the philosophical and cultural basis and historical
perspective on human rights.
To examine the inter-dependence of and linkages between
human rights and democracy, pluralism, development, ecological balance, peace
and harmony at the national and international levels.
To study the historical context, colonialism and post
colonialism, post Independence national development , protection regime
especially for the weak and marginalised groups including minorities and for
women and children.
To study and prepare reports on the violation of human
rights by the state and its agencies – the police and criminal Justice system
inconsistence wih human rights norms.
To suggest action for violation of rights by armed political
groups and terrorists.
To work against intra – social violation of rights of the
poor and weak by the dominant groups.
To effectively work for reducing gender inequalities,
exploitations and injustices.
To provide legal aid and advice for the indigent and weaker
sections of the society.
To work in close co-operation with national human rights
commission and other statutory commission on women, minorities, SC and ST and
linguistic minorities, NGOs and media organizations for promoting human rights
education.
To study the texts, treaties, arrangements and structures
innovated by the international community in the post world war period for the
protection of human rights, effect of world war on the status and functioning
of various and institutions and structures organized for promotion and
protection of human rights.
To prmote the role of developing socities vis-a-as human
rights.
To study the causes of success and failure of institntion
like UN and its specialised bodies like UNHCR, UNHCHR, UNESCO, WHO, ILO
vis–a-vis human rights.
To collect data related to the existing educational and
training facilities in the areas of human rights and civil liberties in
different parts of the world in general and the developing countries in
particular for designing a need based Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral
programmes in human rights and civil liberties.
To aid in organiging conferences, seminars, meetings,
discussions, debates, study courses, collection of statistics, exhibitions,
shows, tour trips etc.
To publish books, encyclopaedias, monographs, journals and
directories on human rights.
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