Hello! We’re writing from our community library in Downtown Dharamshala
Links: Find us on Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Whatsapp and YouTube
Newsletter: We have documented our journey in detail on our newsletter called “The Dhauladhar” on Substack
Mobile: +91 9990 900 500
Email: [email protected]
Website: himalayanadvocacy.com
Contact person: Utkarsh Jain (find LinkedIn profile here.)
Our Team: In less than three years, we have worked with bright legal researchers from universities across India, and now the world, including National Law Universities, South Asian University, Nirma University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Learn more here.
We are Himalayan Advocacy Center—a Section 8 Company (nonprofit) registered as “Himalayan Advocacy Chambers”. We have a small community library and advocacy space located in downtown Dharamshala, less than a ten minute drive from the picturesque Dharamshala Cricket Stadium. Find us on Google Maps here.
The Center began as a website in the summer of 2021 in the midst of the pandemic in India. We decided early on to invest in first understanding ongoing environmental issues of the Himalayas, whilst making a commitment to locating ourselves in this region. We achieved this by seeking out information made available by community members & Government, and systematically recording our findings, from Dharamshala in beautiful Kangra valley.
This process, now covering the larger third pole region, continues to attract top talent towards our internship program and in turn led to credible knowledge resources acclaimed by legal practitioners as well as academia. We have been equally focused on leveraging different formats to communicate our work with the world—google docs, letters, paperbacks, quick response codes and stickers, right here from Dharamshala. We are proud to have our work carried at Oxford, Cambridge & Yale, and in the hands of the public, lawmakers, judges and bureaucrats across India.
Our journey till now has equipped us to partner with individuals, communities and organizations to address complex environmental issues of the third pole in an agile, authentic, bold and unique way that balances legal action with community advocacy. We are proudly building in India, with Indian money and for + from the Himalayas.
Inspired by simplicity, our logo represents small enterprise, the great outdoors & a vision as bold as the Himalayas themselves.