Colin Gonsalves

Colin Gonsalves

Founder

Founder of Human Rights Law Network (HRLN)

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Colin Gonsalves is the founder of Human Rights Law Network (HRLN)[1], an Indian non-profit working on human rights from New Delhi.

Human Rights Law Network (HRLN)

Human Rights Law Network, registered as the Socio Legal Information Centre (SLIC), is a nonprofit legal-aid and educational organisation with offices including New Delhi and Mumbai. It runs an active litigation docket across multiple Indian high courts on human rights issues, alongside fact-finding reports and publications, providing free legal aid to marginalised communities.

Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) reports the following, on its own site:

  • Litigation (WPA 7252 of 2018) resulted in release of 33 terminally ill patients from prison overcrowded during Covid-19