• Articulate an alternative constitutional law based not on property but on universal human values.
  
  
• Introduce a broader ideological mooring for legal work as part of an overall  process to bring about social change in which legal campaigns and social  movements collaborate.


• Incorporate international human rights principles in Indian law and, in turn,  influence constitutional law in foreign jurisdictions through the development of  innovative and path-breaking case law in India.


• Build close links between legal networks in India and human rights law groups    abroad, both in the development of law as well as programmatically.


• Campaign for wide-ranging reforms of the legal system, particularly with respect  to state funded legal aid for the poor, so that the state takes more  responsibility for legal services and allocates more resources for legal aid.


• Bring human rights law education in India into the mainstream.


• Build alliances between the judiciary and rights based initiatives to sensitise the  judicial system to a more inclusive understanding of human rights and to an  increased awareness of human rights law and practices in different parts of the  world.