Objectives | Themes | Issues | Stakeholders
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Starting in 2007, the Centre for Constitutional Rights is the institutionalisation of several years of training experience on a range of human rights and law issues.
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| Objectives |
- To create an alternative culture based on humanitarian law principles within justice system.
- To conduct capacity building programmes for NGOs, social workers, judges, lawyers and professionals such as teachers, doctors and journalists, on human rights law and how to access the justice system in India and human rights institutions abroad.
- To tackle the problem of very low levels of transparency, awareness and understanding of law, legal rights and the legal system.
- To counter anti-poor attitude of judiciary, the police and the administration, with reference to the latest developments in humanitarian law in India and abroad
- To inform parliamentarians of the negative features of existing or proposed legislation and to suggest new statutes and/or amendments in the existing statues.
- To increase awareness of and access to the UN system
- To influence administrative policies oriented towards rights and poverty alleviation and to strengthen the liberal democratic movement.
- To expose gross human rights violations
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| Themes |
- History and development of human rights
- Debates within the human rights discourse
- National laws, policies and fora
- International instruments and mechanisms
- Access to Justice and Using PILs
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Issues
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Child Rights |
Criminal Justice |
Dalit Rights |
Disability Rights |
Emergency/Disaster |
Environmental Justice |
HIV / AIDS |
Housing Rights |
Labour Rights |
Refugee Rights |
Right to Food |
Secularism and Peace |
Trafficking |
Women’s Justice |
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Stakeholders
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- Lawyers, judges, bureaucrats and the police
- Grassroots activists, members of NGOs and civil society organisations, Social
activists,social workers and NGO workers
- Students and the general public
- Professionals like journalists, teachers, scholars
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