Submission to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG)
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) joined by the undersigned Commonwealth, international, and regional civil society groups draw the attention of CMAG to the number of indiscriminate killings, arbitrary arrests, detention without recourse to justice, and torture in Cameroon.
India Code Website: Laws Just a Click Away
India Code Website, which will be a digital version of all central and state laws, is an important first step in ensuring legal empowerment of all citizens Sept 24, 2018 (indialegallive.
CHRI and partner organisations urge UN member states to refrain from voting for candidates that are unfit for membership
To Permanent Representatives of Member States of the UN General Assembly 18 September 2018 Member States of the UN should refrain from voting for candidates to the Human Rights Council that are unfit for membership Excellencies, Ahead of the next UN Human Rights Council (“HRC&
Concluded: Launch of CHRI national report on the state of legal aid in India entitled ‘Hope Behind Bars’
Below is the transcript of the speech given by CHRI International Director Sanjoy Hazarika at the launch: Justice A.P. Shah, former CJ of the Delhi high court and member of CHRI EC, Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar, Dr. Srikrishna Deva Rao, Vice Chancellor of NLU Odisha, Mr. S.S.
SC verdict is ‘call for action’ to Commonwealth Nations bound to colonial laws: CHRI
Sept 09, 2018 New Delhi, India The unanimous Indian Supreme Court judgment which ended the ban on consensual gay sex in private is a landmark verdict which is a “call to action” for all countries in the Commonwealth which still use regressive, outdated colonial law, the Commonwealt
Kashmir Encounter: Releasing Court Martial Details Will Cause Public Outrage, Says Army
New Delhi, India Aug 21, 2018 The Indian Army is using all available legal means to suppress the public release of documents relating to the trial that found six army personnel guilty of killing three Kashmiri civilians in the Macchil fake encounter, HuffPost India has found.
SBI admits, CPIO goofed up with Electoral Bond sale data, refuses to divulge details of donors and recipient political parties under RTI
Image courtesy: Ashish Asthana, https://www.governancenow.
RTI reveals Advisory Board under J&K Public Safety Act spent 75% of its budget upholding detention orders which J&K High Court quashed later on
Image courtesy: http://www.elections.in Aug 02, 2018 By Venkatesh Nayak & Dr. Shaikh Ghulam Rasool Readers may recall recent media reports about the latest amendment made to the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 (J&KPSA) by H. E.
Assam’s NRC process mired in ad hocism and prejudice
Credit: Carol Mitchell / Flickr Aug 02, 2018 By: Sanjoy Hazarika Millions of people becoming stateless in their own land is totally unacceptable The first thing that strikes us about the numbers that have emerged from the protracted exercise, spread over several years and known simply by