Life Events of Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi

🌱 Early Life & Education

Born: 18 May 1970 in Varanasi, India, to Shrimati Savitri Devi.
Education: Graduated in Ayurveda, Modern Medicine & Surgery (1994), State Ayurvedic Medical College, Gurukul Kangri, Haridwar.

1993: President, United Nations' Youth Organization (UNYO), UP Chapter.
1993: Co-founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan with Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi.
1996: Founded People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) to combat caste-based injustices.
1996: Severely tortured by CRPF during a protest; case taken up by NHRC & Amnesty International.
1999: Founded Jan Mitra Nyas to uphold dignity, justice, and rights of marginalized groups.

1998: Core marcher in Global March Against Child Labour across multiple countries.
1998: Petitioned President of France against child labour in sports goods.
2004: Conceptualized “Jan Mitra Gaon” (People-Friendly Village) – community-based rights model.
2005: Founded People’s SAARC and South Asian People’s Forum for regional grassroots solidarity.
2012–ongoing: Leads the Neo-Dalit Movement to unify Shudras and Ati-Shudras.

Books:
- Justice, Liberty, Equality: Dalits in Independent India
- Editor-in-Chief, Reformist Approaches to Human Rights (London, 2022)
Research Contributions: Published in Torture Journal, IRCT, Routledge, and various journals.
Speaker: Lectures at Leuven, Warsaw, Shoolini University, and more.
Advisory Roles: Editorial Board Member of Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis & Torture Journal.

2001: Ashoka Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship.
2007: Gwangju Human Rights Award, South Korea.
2016: M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award.
2018: Public Peace Prize (Canada) & French Republic’s Special Mention Human Rights Prize.
2019: Rotary International’s Vocational Excellence Award.
2020: Tilaka Manjhi National Award (Bihar); Named among “21st Century Heroes of India” (UK).
2021: Honored in EUVP Wall of Fame, Brussels.
2022: Honorable Mention, Global Pluralism Award, Ottawa – recognized in the Senate of Canada.
2023: Participated as Special Guest in Bharat Jodo Yatra.
2024: Appointed Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI (India).

Profiled in:
- India Today, Youth Ki Awaaz, The Better India, Dainik Jagran, Logical Indian, Sri Lanka Guardian.
- Featured on ABP Live, Al Jazeera, The Wire, BBC Hindi, and Deed Indeed Foundation.