Fury in Kenya over police brutality amid coronavirus curfew
ThefightagainstcoronavirushasturnedviolentinKenyaaspoliceofficersenforcinganewcurfewbrutalizecitizens.Videosandtestimonieshavespreadthroughoutsocialmediashowinghundredschokingonteargasandindividualshitwithbatonsinthestreet,asdetailedinanAl-Jazeerareport.
CPJ, 80 media and rights groups urge African heads of state to release jailed journalists
To: President of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune President of Benin Patrice Talon President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza President of Cameroon Paul Biya President of Chad Idriss Deby President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi President of Erit
CHRI’s Access to Information (ATI) Programme successfully hosted a Right to Information -Learning Visit (RTI-LV)
CHRI’s Access to Information (ATI) Programme successfully hosted a Right to Information -Learning Visit (RTI-LV) from 19th -26th August 2019 for a 14 member delegation from Kenya which included Commissioners from the Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ), Kenya and members of the Kenyan P
Easier Said Than Done (ESTD) Report based on the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
The 'Easier Said Than Done' (ESTD) report is a part of the series started in 2008 by CHRI's International Advocacy and Programming (IAP) team to review the voting patterns of Commonwealth member states at the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva.
Geneva: CHRI International Director speaks at Commonwealth Civil Society Seminar
[Pictured: Members of the seminar, including CHRI International Director, Sanjoy Hazarika (extreme left) and Yashasvi Nain, former CHRI lead of the International Advocacy Programme( who joined the Commonwealth Secretariat at Geneva as Human Rights adviser in March 2019 (second from right)] T
WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTATION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION for stakeholders in Kenya supported by the Commonwealth Foundation 14-15 Nov 2018
CHRI visited Kenya in November 2018 and conducted one national level workshop in Nairobi in collaboration with Katiba Institute with government representatives and other stakeholders on challenges to the implementation of the Access to Information Act in Kenya.
WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTATION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION for civil society representatives in Kenya supported by the Commonwealth Foundation 16 Nov 2018
CHRI visited Kenya in November 2018 and conducted a workshop with the representatives from civil society in Nakuru County, Kenya in collaboration with Katiba Institute and MidRift Human Rights Network.
CHRI celebrates the 70th Commonwealth Day!
Monday, March 11 marked the 70th Commonwealth Day, and the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiaitve (CHRI) joined 52 other nations in celebrating it.
Access to public information an uphill struggle in Kenya despite law
Photo: NMG According to the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), a lobby which has been at the forefront of helping Commonwealth countries in coming up with ATI laws as well as overseeing its implementation, indicates that by 2010, more than 85 countries in the world had this law.
Concluded event: Our ATI Coordinator speaks at Karnataka Information Commission event in Bengaluru
Venkatesh Nayak, coordinator of CHRI's Access to Information programme on February 2 spoke at the Karnataka Information Commission's event "Adjudication Process under the RTI Act”, at Bengaluru, Karnataka.