Our Mission : Ensuring Rights To All

We are a statutory autonomous body to protect your rights. This is through the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 which came into force on 28 September 1993.

The Act provides for the constitution of State Human Rights Commissions. We are known as the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission.

We in the State Commission endeavour to prevent violation by public servants of your rights. This we do by accepting complaints from you of any such violation by a public servant. We can even inquire into violation on our own without the receipt of any complaint if the case so warrants.

We also seek to protect your rights. This we do by timely intervention in the court proceedings and visits to jails and custodial homes.

We also seek to promote human rights by supporting human rights literacy and encouraging efforts of non- governmental organizations and institutions that work in this field.

Thus, we are concerned with the three P’s of human rights- PREVENTION, PROTECTION AND PROMOTION.


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