Monitoring the status of human rights in the state of Karnataka is a regular activity of SICHREM. This involves mainly organising of fact-findings into incidents of human rights violations. The report of these fact-findings are used for exposing the issue and also for lobbying with the concerned agencies for justice and compensation for the victims.

During the last eight years SICHREM has organised about four hundred fact-finding missions into various cases. A few important cases, which received larger attention, are the following:

Child labour

• Kidnap & forced labour of Radha
• Case Studies of the death of child labourers in Karnataka
• Death of a child labourer -Anita at PC Rajashekar's residence
• Fact-finding into the torture of child labourer - Khair-un-nissa
• 110 child labourers hailing from West Bengal were rescued from Gold processing industry
• Branding of a 2 year old child -Ramya

General Cases

• Death of 11 labourers in a quarry blast in Ankana Bava village of Tumkur Dist
• Human Rights violation -victims of displacement by seabird project
• Fact-finding on Bababudangiri Dattatraya Petha - Chickmagalur

Police Firing

• Police firing in Zalki -Bijapur dist on 4th July 2002,4 persons killed subsequent to the unnatural death of PSI G.B. Kavatekar
• Atrocities on the tribals at M.M.Hills by the Special Task Force
• Police firing and lathi charge on 30 farmers who were protesting against the release of Cauvery water- H.D.Kote, Mysore
• Police firing in Hangal taluk of Haveri Dist - 1 person killed & several injured
• Police firing in Channapatna following Neera agitation
• Atrocities and firing on tribals in Wayanad, Kerala

Police Atrocities and Torture

• Police atrocity on Chandrashekar
• Firing and police excesses on farmers in Tumkur
• Torture and illegal custody of Altaf, 12-year-old, Tumkur
• Illegal detention and torture of Shameem at Basavanagudi police station, Bangalore
• Police atrocities on GKVK Campus

Custodial Deaths

• Custodial death of Rajendra - Bangalore
• Sudath Kumar Jain - Mangalore
• Nagaraj at K.R. Nagar-Mysore
• Ramu- Mysore
• Eramma in Jewargi -Gulbarga
• Vasantha kumar -NEPS Police Station, Tumkur
• Ramesh at Doddaballapur, Bangalore District.

Communal Violence

• Case of Communal violence in Kamatgi village, Bagalkot district - Karnataka, India
• Case of Communal violence in Malebennur, Shimoga District - Karnataka, India

Atrocities on Dalits

• Case of dalit woman stripped naked and tied to a pole by high caste people in Doddaballapur taluk
• Dalit priest tonsured and not allowed to perform his duties at the temple in Srinivasapura taluk
• Rape of 8-yr-old minor girl (Dalit) in Kolar Dist
• Dalit woman molested, ostracized'- 6th Sept 2001
• Banishment of Anganawadi teacher in Tumkur
• Case of rape on Tayamma & Savitha at Malavalli, Mandya Dist