New Delhi 7 June :To evaluate the annual progress, discuss important organizational matters and formulate the plan of action for the following year, Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) has organized its annual general body meeting at Hotel Malabar Plaza in Cochin, Kerala from 5-6th June , 2010 . The meeting was attended by a number of special invitees from different parts of the country, apart from the founder members of APCR. On the first day, the annual report and annual plan of action has been discussed in detail. Among the prominent works done during the preceding year includes training of para-legal social activists, fact finding visits of human rights violations cases, advocacy on communal violence bill-09 and mass awareness on civil and human rights cases in different parts of the country.
Among the major decisions taken in the meeting, The general body of APCR decided to a setup a Centre viz APCR’s Centre for Research, Training and Documentation on Civil Rights to facilitate the objectives of APCR and cater the needs of the field apart from organizing training workshops at Regional and District level. On the front of Legal Help and Guidance chapter level a Cell for Legal Help and Guidance will be formed comprising competent and dedicated advocates and activists and at District and Local level Legal Clinics will be opened comprising competent and dedicated advocates and activists. The meeting also decided to hold Professor Iqbal Ansari Memorial Lecture in New Delhi every year on his death anniversary to advance the cause and issues Prof. Ansari was committed for.
On this occasion, an informal meeting of human rights activists, academician, legal luminaries, and journalists also took place on 5th evening followed by dinner. In the informal gathering, participants discussed both regional as well as national issues related to human rights. Eminent personalities present at this occasion were Justice Ghafoor, Porf. Baha Uddin, V M Ibrahim, Yasin Ashraf, Justice Khalid, Basheer Kunnil are to name a few.
A public meeting was also organized on 6th June , 2010 at MES Hall, Kaloor, 4:30 PM. Justice V R Krishna Iyer, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India was the chief guest. The public meeting was addressed by Prof. K Aravinadamaksham, eminent Human Rights Activist , Prof. K A Siddiq Hassan, General Secretary, APCR , Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Human Rights Activist, Gujarat , Adv. Pulikkool Aboobacker, Kerala High Court and presided by Advocate Yusuf Hatim Muchachala, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and National President, APCR. The topic of the public meeting was National Security, Draconian Laws and Civil Rights.
