Special features of the organization
LCHR activities vary from litigations inside court-rooms to legal capacity building programmes in remote villages where it accompanied the poor and the needy in their fight for justice and human rights. , LCHR has conducted scores of Legal Awareness Programmes among the rural people of Assam and has covered 16 districts in which 52,526 villagers have benefited for the last 6 years. , Covering 314 tea gardens with 564 legal awareness programme LCHR has enhanced legal capacity of 14,435 tea plantation labourers in Assam. , More than 483 Para-legal personnel have been trained on advocacy skills, to amplify the voice of the voiceless. , LCHR has organized workshops, trainings and consultation programmes on various rights of the people. , LCHR has provided legal consultancy, settled cases of poor and has assisted women in litigations to restore justice to the needy. , Through PIL, LCHR assisted to restore right of 10,000 forest dwellers in Karbi Anglong district. , LCHR in collaboration with Assam State Legal Services Authority organized International Human Rights Day and legal awareness programmes on anti-ragging laws, mediation, different welfare and social security schemes, PC-PNDT Act, PWDV Act, human rights and legal rights of persons affected with HIV/AIDS etc. in various places of Assam. , LCHR trained 125 minority women in five villages under the programme, NAI ROSHNI , a programme sponsored by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Govt. of India. , LCHR in association with District Legal Services Authority, Kamrup organized awareness programmes on availability of health care schemes and PC-PNDT Act in 15 villages under Kamrup district of Assam. 686 participants benefited from this programme. , LCHR has created and strengthened advocacy capacity of over 40 voluntary organizations in Northeast India to employ rights based approach to development. , Publication of legal awareness series of LCHR has educated masses in different ways. , In collaboration with the Guwahati High Court Legal Services Committee & District Legal Services Authority and UNICEF, LCHR spread legal awareness among rural people especially on RTE, RTI and others. , LCHR in collaboration with North Eastern Social Research Centre organized a consultation programme on the Armed Forces (Special Power) Act. , LCHR organized many seminars and workshops on Human Trafficking and Public Distribution System. , LCHR had facilitated 3 public hearings in Assam in collaboration with Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights. , LCHR assisted 300 educational institutions to obtain Minority Status Certificate from National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions. , LCHR in collaboration with Department of Justice, Govt. of India has been Training and sensitizing of 400 lawyers empanelled with Legal Services Authorities of 8 States of North East including Sikkim .
