Synopsis The human rights activism has made a major commitment to, and openly and visibly taken up, the defence and promotion of the human rights. Developmental programmes of international institutions and procedures for protection of human rights goes together with the proliferation of non governmental international organizations working in the human rights fields. Human rights NGO’s have played a particularly important role in the evolution of the international system for the protection of human rights and in trying to make it work. They provide a needed counterpoint to these governmental attitudes and deserve much of the credit for the progress that has been made in recent decades. The varied dimensions of human rights activism and the role of NGOs in protecting human rights are elaborately explored in the present book.