1.3 Thematic Committees The visionary goal of the National Human Rights Commission is to establish a broad-based human rights culture in the country; and to reach that goal NHRCB’s agenda necessarily become many. NHRC has formed 12 thematic committees accordingly: • • • • • • • • • • • • Committee to advise government on acts, treaties and conventions on human rights Committee on Dalit, Hijra, Religious, Ethnic, Non-citizen and other excluded minorities’ rights Committee on Persons with Disability and Autism Committee on Child Rights and Child Labor Committee on Business & Human Rights and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Committee on Climate Change, Environment and Disaster Management Committee on Migrant Worker’s Rights and Anti Trafficking Committee on Respecting others opinion with a view to create moral values and awareness on human rights Committee on CHT Affairs Committee on Elderly People’s Rights Committee on Violence against Women Committee on Economic, Social, Cultural, Civil and Political Rights 1.4 Functions and strategies The National Human Rights Commission follows its second Five-Year Strategic Plan (2016-2020) to operationalize its functions. An annual action plan now called the Annual Performance Agreement (APA) is made beforehand to be performed within a financial year (July to June). Activities are included in the APA as per the priority of the Strategic Plan and considering the contemporary human rights outlook and incidental demands of the time. NHRCB’s functions include but are not limited to the following: • • • • • • Identifying and prioritizing the issues on human rights; (through media report, Global comparative study, reports of different internationally reputed organizations and citizens’ feedback etc.) Studying, analyzing, and monitoring on human rights situation; Collecting and preserving data on different human rights issues; Raising protest against human rights violations including disappearance, harassment, unlawful arrest by police, torture in custodies etc. Conducting enquiries and investigations as part of its legal mandate; Taking cognizance suo moto on sensational violations of human rights; 28 | Annual Report 2022 : National Human Rights Commission