The
broad objective of the organizations is to promote the cause of national and
international integration by strengthening the efforts for recognition and
implementation of human rights and to create legal and human rights awareness
and empowerment among the general public through the provision of legal and
civic education, provision of legal aid, conducting research and follow-up
human rights violations.
The
Specific objectives of the organization are:
- Promote, respect
and observe of human rights and democracy
- Promote, respect
and observe of rule of law and due process
- Create networks
with the public interest and human rights organization, non-governmental
organizations, universities, relevant research organizations and legal
associations etc.
- Make best efforts
for protection, promotion and advancement of socio-economic and political
rights of the public.
- To fight lawfully
for the causes of the rights of the masses and to file public interest
petitions to safeguard the rights of the masses.
- Organise and
sponsor to undertake conferences, seminars, workshops, meetings and such
other activities with a view to promoting the social and educational
objectives of the MASM.
- Raising funds for
the purposes of the MASM on such terms as are compatible with the autonomy
of MASM and within the spirit of its social and educational objectives.
- Work out for all out socio-economic progress of the country and the society.
The strategy i.e. adopted by MASM includes actions such
as
- To identify
and expose policy, law reform and issues of practice with a view to advocating
for change and proactive information sharing;
- To raise
human rights and legal awareness and empowerment amongst the general public for
good governance in
- To
put-forth the demands of the public on a continuous basis before the three
organs of the government i.e., Executive, Legislature and Judiciary and ensure
justice.
- To gather
and disseminate concrete, reliable and up-to-date information on policies,
legal issues and issues of practice
- To improve
the performance and sustainability of Manavadhikar Samajik Manch.
By
- Strengthening
strategic alliances with like minded organizations and individuals
- Embarking
on effective advocacy for good governance in the country;
- Devising
means to capture the needs of the public;
- Making
effective use of mass media
- Strengthening
administration of research
- Putting in
place an effective human resource development system for effective and
efficient service delivery
As part of its work, MASM always strives to bring awareness
among the various sections of the population especially to poorest and vulnerable
sections of the society who are often the victims of human right violations.
The areas of interventions always focused to bring changes in policy, legal
framework and issues of practices. To ensure justice, MASM always tried to put
the demands of the public on a continuous basis before the three organs of the
government i.e., Executive, Legislature and Judiciary.
At present, MASM has two wings one for legal aid and human
rights monitoring department with a legal aid clinic intending to do psychological
counseling to the victims, to identify the cases of Human Rights violations,
raise the issues and do the follow up exercise and the other is for Research
publiation and documentation.
