Human Rights Law Network

HRLN (Human Rights and Law Network) is a group of Indian lawyers working for social causes and bringing legal cases for disadvantaged sections of society to promote human rights. It has worked on child rights, disabilities rights, rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, prisoners rights, refugee rights, rights of indigenous peoples, workers rights, and rights of the minorities and people who have faced or are subject to sexual assault/violence.

HRLN was started in 1989 as a small group of lawyers, led by Colin Gonsalves, a public interest lawyer, and has evolved into an important human rights organisation in India, with twenty-eight branches across the country. It provides legal support and pro-bono legal advice to indigenous litigants. Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) and the Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights (IPT) are activities of the Socio-Legal Information Centre, whose mission is to protect the fundamental rights of people,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.

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Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India Colin Gonsalves is the Founder Director of HRLN. Human Rights Law Network Activists include lawyers and social workers from all over India such as Advocate Sheela Ramanathan, Advocate Dolma Bhutia, Advocate K.K. Roy, Advocate Ahmed Raza, Advocate Vikash Kumar Pankaj; Advocate, Rakesh Meibhoum, Advocate Sunil Mao, Advocate P.C. Tiwari, Deepika D'souza, Harsh Dobhal, Suresh Nautiyal, S.H. Iyer, Advocate Sandhya Raju, Adv Gayatri Singh, and Adv Mihir Desai.

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