Human Rights Protection Trust 2.75

What We Do

Human Rights Protection Trust provides pro-bono legal services to those with little or no access to the justice system, conducts litigation in the public interest, engages in advocacy, runs helplines, conducts legal awareness programmes, sensitizes the judiciary, investigates violations and deploys crisis-intervention teams, plans People’s Tribunals, publishes 'know your rights' materials, participates in campaigns, and proposes solutions to some of India’s foremost social problems.
Through its involvement in grassroots movements, Human Rights Protection Trust seeks to inculcate a human rights based approach to the legal system in India. We believe that large scale struggles against human rights violations have to be waged by social and political movements, and that the legal system can play a significant supportive role in these struggles. Therefore, we work in solidarity with like-minded organizations and individuals, using the legal system to bring about social change, as well as campaigning to bring about wide-ranging reforms in the legal system itself.