JMI Vice Chancellor Prof. Talat Ahmad Receives ‘Most Eminent Vice Chancellor Award 2017’

All India Council of Human Rights, Liberties and Social Justice, also known as AICHLS has conferred ‘Most Eminent Vice Chancellor Award 2017’ to Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Professor Talat Ahmad.

AICHLS organised seventh International Human Rights Awards Ceremony on December 9, 2017. This year, the theme of the awards ceremony is ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’. The spirit of ‘Protecting, Promoting Human Rights, Peace and Harmony’ was the major aim of AICHLS. The awards ceremony began with an observance of two-minute silence for the brave Indian soldiers who had sacrificed lives for their motherland.

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Speaking about the honour, Professor Talat Ahmed termed the award as an honour, and he was delightful to receive an award from a forum, which has championed the cause of human rights for the weak, poor, marginalised, minorities and depressed sections of the society. He pointed that JMI is doing its best to serve the socially and economically marginalised sections of society by mainstreaming them through education.

Former Vice-Chancellor of Mumbai University, Professor Sanjay Deshmukh was also one of the recipients of the award.

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About AICHLS:-

An advocate at Supreme Court of India, Dr. Anthony Raju is the founder of AICHS. Apart from being an advocate, Dr. Anthony is an internationally acclaimed Human Rights defender, social worker, peace activist, and is India’s foremost voices of Human Rights.

All India Council for Human Rights, Liberties and Social Justice has been added as a signatory to world’s largest corporate social responsibility initiative, ‘United Nations Global Compact’.