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Nov 27, 2020 Press-releases

CHRI releases new report on transgender persons in prisons, urges model policy to protect rights

Nov 27, 2020 New Delhi, India The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) today launched a unique report ‘Lost Identity: Transgender Persons Inside Indian Prisons’ which reviews compliance of prisons with existing legal frameworks relevant to protecting the rights of transgende

Nov 23, 2020 In-the-news Access to Information

Electoral Bonds: Scourge of Democracy

Nov 22 2020 (Deccanherald.com) By: Venkatesh Nayak Sir Sean Connery, who made James Bond -- the arch tiktok takipci satin al nemesis of Ian Fleming’s villainous characters hankering for world power -- a household name, died peacefully in his sleep last month.

Nov 19, 2020 In-the-news Access to Information

Kashmiris Struggle With RTI Delays Due To Modi Govt’s Ill-Planned Article 370 Move

A review of two recent CIC orders and interviews with activists show that in Kashmir, an existing RTI system that ensured relatively quicker access to information for local residents has been replaced by a slower process riddled with red tape. Nov 19, 2011 (huffingtonpost.

Nov 02, 2020 In-the-news Access to Information

Is Right to Information regime losing steam in its 16th year?

Nov 1, 2020 (Economic Times) On October 12, 2005, the first Right to Information (RTI) query was filed in a police station of Pune, heralding a new age of freedom of information and transparency.

Oct 30, 2020 In-the-news Access to Information

The visible apathy of invisible commissions: Whither lockdown performance?

Oct 29, 2020 counterview.

Oct 29, 2020 In-the-news Access to Information

India committed Covid-19 aid to 150 countries, says PM Modi; RTI says 81

Oct 29, 2020 Deccan Herald Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a United Nations forum in mid-July that India has extended medical and other assistance to over 150 countries in the wake of Covid-19 but an RTI response has shown that New Delhi has committed aid only to 81 countries to the tune

Oct 23, 2020 Press-releases

CHRI condemns Nigerian crackdown calls for Judicial Commission to investigate violence, initiate police reforms

Oct 23, 2020  New Delhi/Accra The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) condemns the excessive police violence against peaceful protestors in Nigeria and calls on the Government of Nigeria to stop the crackdown that has taken a toll of over 60 lives, ensure accountability for excess

Aug 20, 2020 Publications International Advocacy and Programming

CHRi's Statement On Covid-19 And Contemporary Forms of Slavery Submitted to the 45th Regular Session of the Un Human Rights Council

CHRI submitted a joint written statement on the 'Impact of COVID-19 on Contemporary Forms of Slavery', in collaboration with the Commonwealth 8.7 Network, for the 45th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council.

Sep 29, 2020 Publications International Advocacy and Programming

CHRI MAKES AN ORAL STATEMENT AT THE UPR REPORT CONSIDERATION OF KIRIBATI AT THE 45th REGULAR SESSION OF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Geneva CHRI delivered a video oral statement at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report consideration of Kiribati (Agenda Item 6) at the 45th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council. CHRI was among the six civil society organisations that intervened during the debate.

Sep 28, 2020 In-the-news Access to Information

Prasar Bharati's Threat to PTI on 'Anti-National Reporting' Did Not Have Board Clearance

Sept 28, 2020 (The Wire.