• To protect fundamental human rights, increase access to basic resources for marginalised communities, and eliminate discrimination.
  
  
• To create a justice delivery system that is accessible, accountable, transparent, efficient and affordable, and works for the underprivileged.
  
  
• To raise the level of pro bono legal expertise for the poor to make the work uniformly competent as well as compassionate.
  
  
• To equip through professional training a new generation of public interest lawyers and para-legals who are comfortable both in the world of law as well as in social movements, and who learn from the social movements to refine legal concepts and strategies.
  
  
• To work towards an increased awareness of rights as universal and indivisible, and their realisation as an immediate goal.