Viewing the urgent need for the establishment of a national level institution for studies, training, research, publication, conference organisation and consultancy in the field of human rights and civil liberties, the Indian Institute of Human Rights was established as a constituent unit of the World Institution Building Programme (WIBP), an International Charity incorporated in March 1990 as a Public Charitable Trust at New Delhi. The WIBP decided to accord autonomy to the Indian Institute of Human Rights by advising to get the co-sponsorship of different Universities for launching need based programmes at Bachelor's, Master's as well as Doctoral levels. ...Less