25 YEARS OF SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER

What We Do?

Services we provide:

  • Psycho-legal counseling
  • Helpline to victims of violence, injustice and those in distress
  • Scrutiny of documents and legal advice
  • Assisted negotiation and mediation for amicable settlement of disputes
  • Sensitization seminars and workshops on gender, and child rights
  • Public meetings/debates on contemporary concerns
  • Training of para-legal volunteers, service providers etc…
  • Consultancy services

Projects we completed:

  • Disaster management and relief works in Latur in Maharashtra following the devastating earth quake in 1993.
  • Services for legal reparation and legal aid in Tsunami-hit areas in Kollam and Alappuzha districts in the year 2004
  • Investigative Research Study Report in 2002 on toxicity of ground water and pollution at Plachimada due to illegal and unscientific operations of Coco Cola company.
  • Investigative Research Study Report in 2003 on ecological and environmental damages in Vagamon owing to illegal human encroachments.
  • Investigative Survey and Study Report in 2003 on the Prevalence of Dowry System in Kerala and its impact on different sections of Society.
  • Investigative Research Study Report in 2010 on air, soil and water pollutions at Kathikkoodam by Nitta Gelatin India Limited.
  • 3-year study and reports on the perils of Unethical Clinical Drug Trials in Kerala and to make drug trials clinically safe and ethically sound, conducted during 2009-12 period.
  • Pollution of Chaliyar River by Mavoor Rayons
  • Politically /communally motivated killings at Kannur and Marad
  • Brutal attack on Adivasis by armed forces at Muthanga in 2002
  • Agitation by landless Dalits in Chengara
  • PIL in the matter of custodial torture and death of Gopi s/o Thankappan, Cherthalai, Alleppy. Final order given in favour of Jananeethi by Kerala High Court in 1998.
  • PIL in the matter of trafficking of 75000 young women from Kerala and North East States to Thailand for sex trade by Shillong based H & Z International. Interim stay was given by Kerala High Court in 1995 and was made final in 2008.
  • PIL filed by Jananeethi in the Supreme Court against the confirmation of capital punishment awarded to Mr. T.A. Joseph by the Division bench of Kerala High court in a communally sensitized issue of land dispute that caused death of three people. The appeal resulted in reducing the death penalty to life imprisonment.
  • Jananeethi filed several PILs in matters of waste dumping stations at Calicut and Thodupuzha and the respective courts decreed in favour of Jananeethi.

Media

Our Journey

1991 Jananeethi office inaugurated
1992 - May 13 Registration of Jananeethi Society
1992 December

Formal Inauguration

Initial services included – public adalats (neethimela), free legal aid, legal literacy, mediation & reconciliation and public interest litigation. Started campaign against torture, death penalty, dowry, child labour and trafficking.

1993 Launch of Jananeethi Publication
1994 Women’s Desk
1996 Environmental Advocacy launched
2000 Helpline for women, children and elderly in distress started
Declaration of first litigation-free village in Thichoor in Varavoor Panchayat
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