To work for ensuring that basic human rights are respected everywhere.

To cooperate to avoid compromising on human rights for economic or political expediency.

To recognize democratic institutions as a fundamental human rights.

To work towards the sovereignty and self-determination of entities with historical, cultural and ecological identity.

To actively engage with the government of India and other countries to promote human rights education.

To keep the interest of disempowered communities foremost in all dealings with countries in which human rights violations occur.

To bring diplomatic and commercial pressures on regimes that violate human rights, to ensure that they respect the basic rights of their citizens.

To Support the end of colonization and press for resolution of colonial conflicts through the UN framework.

To develop a more distinctive and effective role for the international Court of Justice in the field of human rights.

To support through the UN framework, democratic and economic reforms in countries coming out of totalitarian control.

To promote a culture for educating the citizenry that cultivation and promotion of human rights culture is the sine qua non for the smooth functioning of the organs of a democratic State and for the kind of development that results into overall development of the society.

To actively engage with the government of India and other countries to promote human rights education.

To train the young men and women for facing the challenges of the pluralistic society and the rising conflicts and tensions in the name of particularistic loyalties to caste, religion, region, and culture.

Create an environment as well as an understanding that human rights can easily become vulnerable to abuse of various structures and process of power.

To study the cause of success and failure of institutions like UN, and its specialized bodies like UNHCR, UNHCHR, UNESCO, WHO, ILO, vis-vis human rights.

Provide legal aid and advice for the indigent and weaker sections of the society.

Suggest action for violations of rights by armed political groups and terrorists.

To aid in organizing conferences, seminars, meetings, discussions, debates, study courses, collection of statistics, exhibitions, shows, tour trips etc.

Effectively work for reducing gender inequalities, exploitations and injustices.

Work against intra-social violation of rights of the poor and weak by the dominant groups.

To publish books, encyclopedias, monographs, journals and directories on human rights.

Work in close cooperation with National Human Rights Commission and other Statutory Commissions on Women, Minorities, SC and ST and Linguistic Minorities, NGOs and Media Organizations for promoting Human Rights Education.

To help stop legal social and economic discrimination against women and their exploitation in different ways.

To study the texts, treaties, arrangements and structures innovated by the international community in the post-world war period for the protection of human rights, effect of cold war on the status and functioning of various institutions and structures organized for promotion and protection of human rights.

To create an environment as well as an understanding that human rights can easily become vulnerable to abuse of various structures and processes of power.

To ensure comprehensiveness and incorporation of national, regional and international perspectives related to human rights.

To study the philosophical and cultural basis and historical perspectives on human rights.

To examine the inter-dependence of and linkage between human rights and democracy, pluralism, development, ecological balance, peace and harmony at national and international levels.

To promote the role of developing societies vis-à-vis human rights.

To study the historical context, colonialism and post colonialism, post-independence national development, protection regime especially for the week and marginalized groups including minorities and for women and children.

To study and prepare reports on the violation of human rights by the state and its agencies – the police and criminal justice system inconsistent with human rights norms.

To study the effects of draconian laws and unlawful use of state’s machinery and force by the enforcement agencies.

To promote human rights education as a catalyst in bringing out attitudinal and social change among the management of fireworks, glass, stone crushing and related industries for reducing the prevalence of child labour in these and other hazardous industries to zero.

To necessitate human rights education to evolve strategies and schemes for tackling such attitudes like employing bonded labour, practicing untouchability, perpetrating sati and help members internalize more humane and egalitarian approach in their social relations.