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Your Guide to using the Jammu & Kashmir Right to Information Act 2009 Authors: Venkatesh Nayak & Nandita Sinha, CHRI.
UNDERTRIALS - A long wait to Justice December 2012	Police Complaints Authorities in India - A Rapid Study December 2012
Implementation of the Maldives Police Service Strategic Plan 2007-2011: An Analysis	Police Complaints Authorities: Reform Resisted (2011)
Implementing Access to Information - a guide book in Bengali: Tottho Odhikar Ain Bastobayon – prayogik nirdeshika (2011) Written by Khalida Akhtar, Transparency International.	STATE SECURITY COMMISSIONS Reform Derailed Compiled by Swati Mehta, Edited by Navaz Kotwal and Fahad Ahmed, Based on Selected Recommendations (March 2001, CHRI
Easier Said Than Done (2010) Written by Zachary Abugov and Edited by R. Iniyan Ilango, CHRI.	Duties of Prison Officials(Rajasthan) (In Hindi)
Fair Trial Manual - A Handbook for Judges and Magistrates Researched & Written by Navaz Kotwal and Edited by Maja Daruwala, CHRI.	Feudal Forces: Reform Delayed Researched & Written by Devyani Srivastava, Sumant Balakrishnan and Navaz Kotwal, CHRI.
101 things you wanted to know about the police but were too afraid to ask [English \| Hindi \| Kannada \| Gujarati \| Bangla - Bangladesh \| Dhivehi - Maldives] Written by Maja Daruwala and Navaz Kotwal, CHRI.	Pre-trial Detention and Access to Justice in Orissa, Written by Priti Bharadwaj and Edited by Pujya Pascal, CHRI.
Conditions of Detention in the Prisons of Karnataka, Written by Murali Karnam and Edited by Maja Daruwala & Pujya Pascal, CHRI.	Standards Behind Bars - Rajasthan, CHRI.
Standards Behind Bars - West Bengal, CHRI.	Standards Behind Bars - Orissa, CHRI.
An Analysis of the RTI Rules of the Supreme Court, the High Court and the Subordinate Courts, Written by Venkatesh Nayak & Vrinda Choraria, CHRI.	Uttarakhand State Police Complaints Authority, Written by Navaz Kotwal & Sharan Srinivas and edited by Devika Prasad, CHRI.
< Goa State Police Complaints Authority, Written by Navaz Kotwal & Sharan Srinivas and edited by Devika Prasad, CHRI.	Police Organisations in Pakistan, Researched & Written by Asad Jamal and Edited by Sanjay Patil, CHRI.
Standards Behind Bars - Maharashtra, CHRI.	Monitoring Prisons - A Visitor's Guide, Revised & Written by Madhurima and edited by Pujya Pascal, CHRI.
Common Standards for policing in East Africa, Researched & Written by Louise Edwards, Sean Tait & Derek Dohler and Edited by Louise Edwards & Tennille Duffy, CHRI.	Maharashtra's Abandoned Prisons - A Study of Sub-Jails, Written by Swati Mehta and Researched by Ravindra Vaidya, Kirti Bhowate, Rasika Ramteke & Lokesh Meshram, CHRI.
Liberty at the Cost of Innocence: A Report on Jail Adalats in India, Written by Priti Bhardwaj & Edited by Swati Mehta, CHRI.	Silencing the Defenders: CHRI's 2009 report to CHOGM, Written by Heather Collister & Edited by Maja Daruwala, CHRI.
Rwanda's Application for Membership in the Commonwealth - Report & Recommendations, Prepared by Prof. Yash Ghai with assistance from Lucy Mathieson, CHRI.	Your guide to using Police Complaints Authority (English, Hindi), written by Sharan Srinivas & Afreen Siddiqui and edited by Navaz Kotwal, CHRI.
Complaints Authorities: Police Accountability in Action, written by Devika Prasad & Navaz Kotwal and edited by Navaz Kotwal, CHRI.	A report on the 'Status of the Right to Information in the Pacific Islands of the Commonwealth, written by Laura Halligan and Claire Cronin, and edited by Maja Daruwala and Venkatesh Nayak, CHRI.
Rights Behind Bars - Landmark Judicial Pronouncements and National Human Rights Commission Guidelines, researched & written by Madhurima and edited by Swati Mehta, CHRI.	Feudal Forces: Reform Delayed - Moving from Force to Service in South Asian Policing, researched & written by Sanjay Patil, CHRI.
Compliance with The Right to Information Act: A Survey, edited by Navaz Kotwal & Venkatesh Nayak and survey by Aslam Diwan, Hanif Waghela, Zakir Sheikh, Meenaxi Harry & Farida Sheikh.	Right to Information Calendar 2009, CHRI.
Human Rights for Human Wrongs: The Continuing Commonwealth Challenge written and edited by William Attfield, Tessa Boyd-Cain, Ofordi Nabokei & Uttara Shahani, CHRI.	Implementing Access to Information: A practical guide for operationalising freedom of information laws written by Charmaine Rodrigues and contributed by Maja Daruwala, Deepika Mogilishetty, Aditi Datta & Indra Jeet Mistry and revised by Reshmi Mitra, James Ferguson & Venkatesh Nayak, CHRI.
Chhattisgarh pages from a diary, written by Sumit Kumar and edited by Maja Daruwala, Shobha Sharma & Sanjay Patil, CHRI.	Community Participation in Prisons - A Civil Society Perspective, edited by Priti Bhardwaj and foreward by Maja Daruwala, CHRI.
Police Organisation in India (English & Hindi), CHRI.	The Right to Information and Panchayati Raj Institutions: Uttar Pradesh as a Case Study [Hindi], written by Sohini Paul and edited by Venkatesh Nayak, J.N. Singh & Prateek Pandey, CHRI.
Our Rights, Our Information, Researched & Compiled by Cecelia Burgman, Carrie Gage, Claire Cronin & Reshmi Mitra and Edited by Maja Daruwala & Venkatesh Nayak, CHRI	Police reform debates in India (English & Hindi) Compiled by Swati Mehta and Edited by Daniel Woods, CHRI.
Nagaland RTI Pamphlet in English	Haryana RTI Pamphlet in Hindi
Stamping Out Rights: The impact of anti-terrorism laws on policing Edited by Maja Daruwala & Tessa Boyd-Caine, CHRI	Feudal Forces: Democratic Nations - Police Accountability in Commonwealth South Asia Researched & Authored by Swati Mehta and Edited by Daniel Woods, CHRI.
Easier Said than Done Researched & Written by R. Iniyan Ilango and Edited by Maja Daruwala, Caroline Sharp & Daniel Woods, CHRI	Your Guide to using the Right to Information Act 2005 ( English, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese & Manipuri ) written by Mandakini Devasher and edited by Charmaine Rodrigues & Venkatesh Nayak, CHRI.