address rights relating to health, food, education, rights of persons belonging to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities as well as other vulnerable groups, including women, children and persons with disabilities etc. 6. Further, to expand its reach across the country, the Commission is forging newer and more comprehensive partnerships with various sections including key stakeholders such as, the judiciary, police personnel, government officials, media, representatives of NGOs and civil society organizations, and academia (including students), most notably through its coveted internship programmes, publications, seminars, conferences, workshops, training programmes, consultations and other such means. Also, the Commission is making full-scale efforts to strengthen the internal system for handling complaints more effectively. Therefore, a webbased version of Complaint Management System software using technical support of National Informatics Centre (NIC), is designed, developed and implemented for the complainant. 7. The present Annual Report for the year 2017-2018, of the National Human Rights Commission, inter alia, describes at length, the important activities of the Commission and its numerous initiatives undertaken for a more robust protection and promotion of human rights in the country. The chapters deal, inter alia, with the range of issues concerning civil liberties, including the protection of human rights in areas affected by terrorism and militancy, custodial violence and torture. The systemic reforms of the prisons and criminal justice system; deal with the laws and international instruments relevant to the protection of human rights; the right to health; the rights of women and children, including the grave question of trafficking; the rights of vulnerable sections of society, particularly SC/ST, children, LGBTQ; the rights of the displaced people/communities by mega-projects and those exploited by bonded labour; the rights of the people with disability. In addition, the report deals with the efforts of the Commission to ensure appropriate action on the complaints addressed to it, summaries being provided of some of the principal cases handled during the period under report. 8. It is the Commission’s ardent hope that the present Annual Report will not only serve to inform its readers of the important initiatives undertaken by the Commission during the last year, but also encourage both, government and civil society, to think and act more closely on the challenges pertaining to human rights, so that we collectively face as a nation and to chart ways to address these challenges in an inclusive and holistic manner. (Justice H.L. Dattu) (Former Chief Justice of India)