While the broad areas of its research are human rights and environment, the organization has attended a wide range of concerns and issues with attention to indigenous peoples and their culture, forestry, commercial and industrial plantation, elections, sex workers, influences of external aid and loans, tea plantation workers and the tea industry, energy, climate change and the coastal environment, etc.
The investigation of abuses, issues and concerns is one main activity of SEHD. SEHD’s investigations are intended to show the causes and effects; explain complex human rights and environmental issues; reveal corruption, wrongdoing and abuse of power; assist to right the wrongs; and improve conditions for investigative reporting in the media.
SEHD investigates not just abuses that routinely take place. It selects crucial and critical issues that are at the roots of the structural violation of human rights and create precarious conditions for life and nature.
In most cases its research is action-oriented and investigative involving the media, professionals and activists.
The output of its research and investigation—books, reports and documentary films—offer essential information and knowledge bases to journalists, academics, leaders, and activists.
