Defending the Defenders of Human Rights
When justice is threatened, we stand firm. Join our mission to protect and promote human rights.
introduction about the organization
Who We Are
In early eighties, a group of lawyers, committed to the work of human rights formed a loose group in order to defend the victims of State Repression. Later on, in 1992 when the Punjab police and the security agencies who were operating in Punjab, started a campaign to harass and kill the human rights defenders and the group started sufferring losses, the group formally organised themselves under the name and style of “LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS”, which later on came to be known as “LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL”.
Our Impact:
Campaign Against Death Penalty
Our organisation has joined hands with various human rights organisations of India who are propagating the abolition of death penalty from Indian Laws. Our organisation is a member of National...
Stamp out Torture
Lawyers For Human Rights International started a campaign to stamp out torture from the police Stations. As a part of the campaign the organisation monitors cases of police torture and help the...
A soulful ‘Appeal’ by the Human Rights Activists of India
We, the citizens of the Republic of India, express our deep concern and sorrow at the confirmation of capital punishment upon Prof. Devender Pal Singh Bhullar and subsequent dismissal of his review...
Latest News & Updates:
Joint efforts of Lawyers For Human Rights International, Col. Sandhu etc. brought Poohla to justice
The controversial self-styled Nihang chief Ajit Singh Poohla who was always in news for his brutal actions, was set on fire by two jail inmates Navtej Singh and Harchand Singh inside the...
Punjab gets rap for ‘ignoring’ juvenile justice
A seminar was organised by the Monitoring Committee on Juvenile Justice of the High Court. Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur in the seminar said the Punjab government has not met several statutory...
HC directs judges to check illegal detention
Saurabh Malik Tribune News Service Chandigarh, October 12 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the district and sessions judges of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh to carry out surprise...
Be A Defender of Human Rights
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