Bio
Babu Mathew is former Registrar and faculty at National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru. He was also part of the trade union movement and various other social movements taking up issues of bonded labor, child labor, displacement, and destruction of the livelihoods of the marginalized.
He combined the teaching and practice of human rights and during the last six years, he served as Country Director of Action Aid International in India. In this capacity, he was in charge of evolving a ‘rights based’ policy and implementing a human rights agenda with special focus on economic, social, and cultural rights in 25 states of India. He led the process of presenting a ‘Shadow Report’ focusing on the excluded communities of India before the relevant UN Committee in Geneva.