SICHREM-South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring was started in 1995, as an answer to the growing insensitivity to the supremacy of the rule of law. The founders reckoned that the best remedy for building a responsible civil society would be through a process of education, sensitization and intervention.

SICHREM’s vision is to create a fearless society where the rights of the last and the least will be respected without any kind of bias and hopes to make human rights a household concept by adopting a proactive stance on the restoration of rights and by advocating a rights-based value system. SICHREM believes that the domain of human rights extends to all realms of the society to embrace social, cultural, economic, civil and political rights. Thus, it consciously takes a pro-poor, gender-sensitive and pro-child stance.

Coinciding with the declaration of UN Decade for Human Rights Education, SICHREM launched its human rights education program in 1995, since then has initiated innovative projects and activities to address the issues of dignity and rights of the marginalized communities.