Human rights prize to Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi
Founder of the Indian RCT partner organisation "Peoples' Vigilance Committee on Human Rights” is honored with the human rights prize of the city of Weimar in 2010.
Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi has been working 15 years for the rights
and interests of the Dalits, primarily in the Indian state of Uttar
Pradesh. During the years he has been striving to maintain and
enforce the fundamental rights of vulnerable groups such as
children, women, Dalits and indigenous minorities.
Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi has documented many kind of human rights
abuses such as starvation, police torture, child labor, etc., and
has tried through cooperation with local human rights groups to
care for the victims individually.
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