India, June 2 -- The prestigious four-week Summer Internship Programme (SIP) 2026 of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India began at its premises in New Delhi today. The programme aims to foster human rights awareness among postgraduate-level students. 100 students out of 1,668 applicants from diverse academic disciplines have been shortlisted for this programme across 40 institutions of 21 states/ union territories. They include the students of Law, Social Sciences, Social Work, Psychology, Journalism, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities and International Relations, among others.

Inaugurating the programme, NHRC, India Chairperson, Justice V. Ramasubramanian said that while agricultural, industrial and digital revolutions ha...