The People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (in Hindi:मानवाधिकार जननिगरानी समिति ) is an Indian non-governmental organisation and membership-based movement which work to ensure basic rights for marginalised groups in Indian society, e.g. children, women, Dalits and tribes to establish rule of law through participatory activism against extrajudicial killing, police torture, hunger, bonded labour and injustice by hegemonic masculinity of the caste system and patriarchy.

[1][2][3] PVCHR was founded in 1996 by Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and Shruti Nagvanshi in collaboration with Sarod Maestro Vikash Maharaj, historian Dr. Mahendra Pratap and poet Gyanendra Pati.

JanMitra Nyas is legal holder of PVCHR which is Public Charitable Trust and has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

To establish a true, vibrant and fully entrenched democratic society through the concept of Jan Mitra where there shall be no violation of civil rights granted to a citizen by the state.

To provide basic rights to all, to eliminate situations which give rise to exploitation of vulnerable and marginalized groups and to start a movement for a people-friendly society (Jan Mitra Samaj) through an inter-institutional approach.