Shruti Nagvanshi
FounderFounder of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR)
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Shruti Nagvanshi is the founder of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) (1996)[1], an Indian non-profit working on human rights from Varanasi.
People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR)
PVCHR was founded in Varanasi in 1996 by Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and Shruti Nagvanshi as a membership-based human rights movement. It works against police torture, bonded labour, hunger and caste discrimination, pioneering testimonial therapy for torture survivors and organising marginalised Musahar and Dalit communities across Uttar Pradesh and beyond.
People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) reports the following, on its own site:
- Membership 72000 as neo-Dalit communities comprising progressive people from upper caste, OBC, tribal and minorities.
- Through networking, working in 16 states of India with the involvement of 99 organisations.
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Varanasi
- Founded
- 1996
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “PVCHR was founded in 1996 by Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and Shruti Nagvanshi in collaboration with Sarod Maestro Vikash Maharaj, historian Dr. Mahendra Pratap and poet Gyanendra Pati.” — People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR). Source
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