This has been yet another central function of People’s Watch aiming at widening the scope of awareness and knowledge building on human rights among students, research scholars and various civil society groups. The more people have access to books, journals and other publications in their own language, the more they will engage themselves in the defense of human rights. Manitha Urimai Kangani (a human rights journal in Tamil) has been a registered monthly magazine, disseminating national and international human rights laws, and declarations, fact-finding reports and other articles and editorials on human rights are included in its content. Training materials, school books, annual reports and minutes of important human rights conventions are made available in Tamil, Hindi, English and other regional languages, as needed.

Through a variety of efforts aimed at enhancing public interest, awareness and outrage around human rights issues, PW has launched an intensive, targeted media campaign to accelerate an active publications and documentation component of its work. Its goal is to ignite public awareness of human rights violations through strategic communications, publications and documentations.

Human Rights Reports help us to expose the various forms of human rights violations, the present human rights realities along with the unresponsiveness of the Government to the public. Such efforts occur through various Human Rights Forums, designed to draw the attention of the public, various Human Rights Mechanisms such as the various Human Rights Commissions, Political Parties, People’s Movements, Dalit Movements, the Women’s Movement, the Minorities Movement, and the mainstream media.

Even though these efforts have had an impact so far through documentation and publications processes, it will be much more effective when it goes out through the electronic and mass media so that the inactiveness of the Government and its instruments can be easily exposed to the public. Bringing out alternative and electronic media will help us create solidarity networks in support of the affected people. This media effort will also help us in bringing about a social change through Human Rights Campaign to ensure state accountability and also to spread the human rights culture. The alternative media will serve as records of historical importance, as evidence and also as documentary support for Human Rights Campaign.

• To influence public opinion for advocacy and policy discourse by using the media

• Sparking media’s interest in generating public outrage by holding press meetings and generate press releases about widespread violations of Human Rights.


• Making Documentary Films and preparing Short Films


• Bringing out Monthly Newsletters


• Updating of the Website


• Preparing Articles for our magazine, Manitha Urimai Kangani


• Preparing advertisement for important events of the organization to be telecast in slots on local televisions


• Creating audio / video documentation of abuse, witness testimony and police interviews and disseminate them to TV, radio and newspapers

• To influence public opinion for advocacy and policy discourse by using the media