# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-gonsalves
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:02:13.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-gonsalves"
name: "Colin Gonsalves"
slug: "colin-gonsalves"
description: "Colin Gonsalves is a designated Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and the founder of Human Rights Law Network (HRLN). He specializes in human rights protection, labour law and public interest law. He has been awarded Right Livelihood Award for the year 2017 for \"his tireless and innovative use of public interest litigation over three decades to secure fundamental human rights for India’s most marginalised and vulnerable citizens.\" Considered a pioneer in the field of public interest litigation in India, he has brought several cases dealing with economic, social and cultural rights. Most of these cases, decided by the Supreme Court, have been set as precedents."
tagline: "Indian lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin-gonsalves.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1952-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.69
  momentum:             7.824639289678136
  historical:           6.857816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "كولن غونزالفز"
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    title: "Colin Gonsalves"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Gonsalves"
    title: "Colin Gonsalves"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Gonsalves"
    title: "Colin Gonsalves"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump