Human rights cell at Jamia Milia Islamia University

Updated on: Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Jamia Millia Islamia has set up a human rights cell at the university in order to advance the cause of human rights. The university already runs a Masters programme in human rights studies under its department of political science.

Students can be part of the cell by participating in research activities and building database of all the human rights violations across the world. The database, once ready, will be available to researchers across the globe. On the setting up of the cell, Najeeb Jung, vice-chancellor, says, "While we have been witnessing a number of human rights violations, not just around us but all across the world, we thought that one of the tasks a university ought to engage in is to use its expertise and build an archive or database of all such violations.

Once we have such a database, not only will it help us systematically understand violations and their nature but will also lead to further research and policy recommendations."

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