NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission will begin its silver jubilee celebrations from Wednesday focusing on its engagement with various media platforms. The Commission, in the last 25 years, has disposed of 17 lakh cases of human rights violation.The Commission will organise a panel discussion with senior journalists on the 'Role of media in creating awareness on human rights' at the IIMC, New Delhi.In a statement, NHRC said on Tuesday, "The NHRC, India is an institution compliant with UN mandated Paris Principles and having an 'A' status of accreditation with Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, GANHRI besides being a founder member of the Asia Pacific Forum , APF. The mandate of the Commission is to work for the promotion and protection of human rights and take cognizance of such complaints wherein the actions, inactions and omissions of government functionaries, prima facie or allegedly, cause human rights violation.""It is a recommendatory quasi-judicial body having powers of a civil court to call for any documents and summon any public authority in a case of human rights violation. In a case of human rights violation, its recommendations are twofold: relief to the victim and punishment to the guilty," it added.The Commission's functioning is focused mainly around the six key areas and allied activities. These include registration and disposal of complaints of human rights violations , enquiry into the complaints, research into the generic issues of human rights and study of related international treaties, covenants and domestic laws as well as the proposed bills, organizing consultations with different stakeholders on human rights issues, providing training and orientation in the field of human rights, bringing out publications and dissemination of information through the news media and the various other alternative media platforms for building widespread awareness on the importance of promotion and protection of human rights, besides meeting the requirements related to the management of infrastructure, manpower and financial resources.The Commission stated that it has disposed of more than 17 lakh cases which includes payment of more than one billion rupees to the victims of human rights violations by various state agencies on the recommendations of the Commission, more than 750 spot enquiries, 20 open hearings and 25 camp sittings covering the length and breadth of the country, reviews and comments on over 40 bills and legislations, apart from conducting more than 200 seminars, conferences and workshops, 27 month-long internships, 1300 attachment programmes, more than thousand sponsored awareness trainings through various institutions and NGOs, more than 50 publications besides about 25 volumes of nearly 300 monthly newsletters in English and Hindi.