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H.D.SHOURIE
FounderFounder of Common Cause
H.D.SHOURIE is the founder of Common Cause (1980)[1], an Indian non-profit working on human rights from New Delhi.
Common Cause
Common Cause is a New Delhi-based public interest organisation working since 1980 for probity in public life and governance reform through action research, advocacy and public interest litigation. It publishes the annual Status of Policing in India Report and has pursued PILs on issues including sedition law and public-health emergency response.
Common Cause reports the following, on its own site:
- 61+ Supreme Court cases pursued
- 27+ High Court cases pursued
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- New Delhi
- Founded
- 1980
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Major General U.C Dubey recounts with love and admiration how what began with repeated trips to DESU over incorrect billing and gathered steam over conversations between retired neighbours sipping afternoon tea eventually gave rise to COMMON CAUSE a forum for consumer complaints that, in its greatest victories, benefitted millions.” — Common Cause. Source
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