NHRC, India’s two-week online short-term internship for university-level students concludes

The two-week online short-term internship programme organised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has concluded. It commenced on 3rd March, 2025. 67 students from various universities in different regions and far-flung areas of the country completed it.

NHRC, India Member, Justice (Dr) Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi in his valedictory address congratulated them. He highlighted the programme’s rigorous selection process, emphasising the painstaking effort to choose the individuals passionate about human rights. The programme was designed as a foundational course to enable the students to learn, grow, and evolve as human rights defenders. He commended the interns for their commitment to learning, which is a lifelong endeavour that never ends.

Justice Sarangi underscored the crucial role the Human Rights Institutions play globally in promoting and protecting human rights and encouraged the interns to utilise their newly acquired knowledge to serve humanity. This could be irrespective of any specific human rights issue they may choose to follow.

Lt Col Virender Singh, Director, NHRC, India presented the internship report. Besides the sessions on different aspects of human rights by the senior NHRC officers, experts and civil society representatives, the interns were also taken for virtual tours to the Tihar Jail, Police Station and Asha Kiran Shelter Home in Delhi. They were given an understanding of how different government institutions function, the mechanisms to protect human rights, the realities on the ground, and the necessary steps to protect the rights of vulnerable sections of society. He also announced the winners of the book review, group research project presentation, and declamation competition.

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