Initiative
Covid-19 Response
Prior to the announcement of the National Lockdown on the 25th of March 2020, a number of courts had shut down in respon ...read more
Right to Food
Right to food is a basic human right. Yet, reports of starvation deaths and widespread hunger are common in India. In 20 ...read more
Women's Justice
Reports of the violation of women’s fundamental rights through physical, mental, emotional, and sexual violence agai ...read more
Students For Human Rights
SLIC through its units across the country is helping build an independent national network of students. Today, it has me ...read more
Sexual Minority and Gender Rights
In 1997, SLIC co-organised a “National conference on rights of sexuality minorities” in Mumbai. Soon afterwards, the ...read more
Right to Information
In India, RTI Act was introduced in 2005 and it is widely regarded as one of the most important legislations passed by t ...read more
Right To Housing
The right to adequate housing has been widely recognized and accepted as a part of the right to life by the internationa ...read more
Right to Education
Nine years since the enactment of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (2009), there are still hug ...read more
Reproductive Rights
Visit the Reproductive Rights initiative website at www.reproductiverights.slic.org.in for complete information an ...read more
Release and Rehabilitation of Bonded Labour
The National Campaign Committee for the Eradication of Bonded Labour (NCCEBL), in collaboration with Socio-Legal In ...read more
Prisoners’ Rights
“The poor, illiterate and weaker sections in our society in our country suffer day in and day out in their struggle fo ...read more
People's Health Rights
One of the most critical challenges facing India today is reduction of funds allocated for the health of its people. In ...read more
Labour Rights
SLIC‘s work in labour rights has its roots in the trade union struggle in Mumbai. In India, only a minuscule fraction ...read more
Implementation of Forest Rights
A PIL was filed by wildlife activists in 2008 challenging the constitutional validity of the Forest Rights Act. On 13th ...read more
Greater involvement of people living with HIV (GIPA)
According to UNAIDS, in 2016, an average of 36.7 million people globally were living with HIV but only 19.5 million of t ...read more
Emergency and Disaster Response
Most organizations intervene in cases of emergencies, disasters, and natural calamities only after the event has occurre ...read more
Disability Rights
Census 2011 pegs the number of persons with disabilities in India at 26.9 million, which is 2.12% of the population. A W ...read more
Dalit Rights
Over one-sixth of India’s population — some 200 million people — live a precarious existence, shunned by much of I ...read more
Criminal Justice
The Criminal Justice Initiative (CJI) provides pro-bono and low-cost legal aid service to undertrials and convicted pris ...read more
Child Rights
Although India has a large number of laws to protect and promote the rights of children, children’s concerns are viewe ...read more
Campaign Against Acid Attack
Acid Attack is an attack or attempt to attack a person with the intention to disfigure, torture, or kill, using acid or ...read more
Anti-Trafficking and Anti-Slavery
India alone is home to 40% of the world’s estimated 45.8 million slaves. Trafficking is a form of modern day slavery. ...read more