MASUM is an initiation of some human rights defenders in camaraderie. MASUM from its inception is struggling for protection, set up and extension of rights of the citizen of India. The whole gambit of human rights are changing its perception and ideological discourse, many issues are get included in broader framework of human rights and its violation. MASUM always made its presence felt in all these facets of human rights by retrospection of its role and questing for the rationale of these issues. MASUM started its journey with addressing the custodial torture and its subsequent ramification, further extended its activities to address other form of human rights violations. 

Goal

To aware, the populace of this vast country and diverse identities, about their basic human rights and its violation. 

Vision

To create a society free from human rights violation and all forms of discrimination by humanizing the society through the participation of pluralist society and ideas. 

Mission

Binding the State and its instrumentalities fully accountable and responsible for extreme and rampant violation of human rights of its citizens.

To create a social environment, which respect the safeguard of human rights as its primary objective.

Advancement of human rights culture disposed to safeguard welfare and freedom for all. 

Objectives:

Prevention and reduction of torture in our society.

Making constructive partners.

To make civil society sensitize about torture.

To make State more responsive and accountable to torture and then human rights violation.

Create database on torture.

Strategies for achieving the set mission, to make vision into a reality and reaching the goal

Giving human rights awareness a momentum among the people from all sections of the society.

Promoting human rights campaign.

Initiating a people’s movement against all sorts of tortures perpetuated by the state and its           machinery.

Broad basing the human rights issues through networking with different rights based organizations and networks.

Ensuring civil society interventions in torture and human rights violation cases.

Constant lobbying and advocacy against torture and human rights violations.

Shielding the rights of the marginalized section of the society.

Promoting gender equality in every sphere of life.

Documenting the human rights and torture related information.

Empowering people by imparting them human rights related information.

Proceeding for the livelihood supports for people.