Legal intervention has been the next logical step to monitoring and it has been the expert area of People’s Watch. Interventions are made in the form of moving to the court and or to various commissions to make the state accountable to a particular human rights violation. Interventions are also made at the international level by seeking support and solidarity of different human rights organizations and the human rights instruments and mechanisms of the United Nations are appropriately used to highlight issues
Structure
Legal Intervention of People’s Watch from 2000-2006 (As on March 2007)
S. No.
Name of Commissions, National and International Organizations, State and Courts
No. of Cases
01.
National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi
166
02.
National Commission for Women, New Delhi
51
03.
National SC / ST Commission, New Delhi
71
04.
National Commission for Minorities
07
05.
State Human Rights Commission, Chennai
162
06.
State Commission for Women, Chennai
46
07.
State Commission for Minorities, Chennai
07
08.
Director, National SC/ST Commission, Chennai
59
09.
National Commission for Backward Classes, New Delhi
03
10.
State Commission for Backward Classes, Chennai
01
11.
Forum Asia
01
12.
Common Wealth HRI
01
13
Lower Criminal Courts
94
14
High Court, Chennai
53
15
Supreme Court of India
05
16
R.D.O. Enquiry
41
17
Public Hearings
08
18
U.N. Spl. Rap on Torture, Racial Discrimination, Violence against Women and Extra Judicial Killings & Aribtrary Execution
