Fact Finding and legal intervention in killing of Tamil labourers by the Andhra Pradesh Special Task Force

Intervention in Madras High Court challenging the TN-SHRC order to ban the use of words 'Human Rights' in
organisation titles Celebration of 20 Years of People's Watch

License to receive foreign grants suspended by the Government of India

Mr. Henri Tiphagne appointed as the Chair of FORUM-ASIA

AINNI released and submitted a Shadow Report on the NHRC to the Sub Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the International Coordination Committee on NHRIs on the 21 January 2011

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Ms. Margaret Sekaggya, marked her first country visit to India from 10--20 January 2011. Mr. Henri Tiphagne accompanied her through out the visit and People's Watch along with WGHR and HRDA, organised six regional consultations between the Special Rapporteur and a wide range of human rights defenders

Initiated a joint-campaign to highlight systematic violations committed against Tamils by the Sri Lankan government and demanded an impartial and independent international inquiry

First Human Rights Defenders' State Conferenceorganised

First National Conference on Human Rights Education in Bhubaneshwar

Began the initiative to rehabilitate De-notified Tribes in Tamil Nadu

Published Guidebook for Human Rights Defenders

Signature campaign jointly organized with the demands to stop the war at Sri Lanka and to avoid war with Pakistan

First National Advisory Committee of IHRE meeting held in New Delhi

Initiated the process of developing IHRE modules in Braille

Human rights clubs initiated in ADW schools in Tamil Nadu

Publishing 'Combating the phenomenon of 'Encounter' Deaths'

National level monitoring of torture and campaign to end torture initiated

Handbook on torture published in 8 languages (English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Bengali)

A dynamic web based database of 604 districts to ease and speed up access to justice for the common public created

Launching of National Project on Preventing Torture in 10 states across India

The name of the organization changed from People's Watch-TamilNadu to People's Watch

Acknowledging the contribution of IHRE in Human Rights Education,the National Human Rights Commission nominatedDr.VasanthiDevi, 

Chairperson of IHRE, to be a Member of NHRC Task Force on Human Rights Education in Schools

The National Human Rights Commission has nominated Mr. Henri Tiphagne, Executive Director, to be a Member of the NHRC NGO Core Committee

Tamil Nadu Government announced compensation of 20 lakhs to 12 special task forcevictims

Citizen for Human Rights Cells initiated in Tamil Nadu

Initiation of Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation Coordination -TN & Pondicherry with the state secretariat being placed at People's Watch

Initiation of the Tsunami Legal Action Committee with the State Secretariat being placed at People's Watch

Launching of a national program of human rights education in 10 states

Facilitated the special task force victims' meetings with the Prime Minister, the Home Ministerand the NHRC demanding the release of the Justice Sadhasiva Panel Report

Training for lawyers in Tamil Nadu in collaboration with the Bar Council through 6 programs covering over 1000 lawyers

Separate buildings for two Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims in Mettur and Madurai

Manitha Urimai Kangani becomes monthly publication

Dalit Human Rights Monitoring initiated in 12 states

10 District level HR Awareness Conferences all over Tamil Nadu

First human rights defenders conference held at Madurai

Release of books on “Statements” by the special tasks force victims before the NHRC appointed Justice Sadhashiva Panel of Inquiry

Initiation of a Helpline

Human rights education extended to Tamil Nadu Adi-DravidarWelfare &Government Tribal Residential Schools

First South Asian training program on Human Rights

First Summer camp for human rights victims' children and educational assistance to 32 children

Mr. Henri Tiphagne became a member of the NGO Core Group of National Human Rights Commission

Introduction of human rights education in colleges

Formally initiating the Institute of Human Rights Education

Program on Human Rights Intervention was initiated

Played a pivotal role towards the initiation of the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)

Intervention in the Mysore TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Prevention Act, 1987) cases on behalf of 108 victims

Introduction of Human Rights Education in 9 schools in Chennai.

Release of People's Watch's first Tamil magazine, exclusively on Human Rights: "ManithaUrimaiKangani".