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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. ==History== HRLN was started in 1989 as a small group of lawyers, led by Colin Gonsalves, a public interest lawyer,〔Nora Boustany, ("India's Pioneer of Public Interest Law" ), ''The Washington Post'', October 24, 2003 〕 and has evolved into an important human rights organisation in India,〔Nilima Pathak, ("Gonsalves fights for justice for the poor and downtrodden" ), ''Gulf News'', February 3, 2013.〕 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. Its objectives are: * produce an alternative constitutional law based on universal human values rather than property; * incorporate international human rights principles in Indian law and, in turn, influence constitutional law in foreign jurisdictions through the development of case law in India; * build links between legal networks in India and human rights law groups abroad; * campaign for reform 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 better understanding of human rights; * build an increased awareness of human rights law and practices in different parts of the world. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Human Rights Law Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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