State Level RTI : Punjab
Law In May 2005, the national Right to Information Act 2005 was passed by Parliament. The RTI Act 2005 received Presidential assent on 15 June and came fully into force on 12 October 2005.
National Level RTI
The right to information campaign in India began with the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan ( MKSS) movement to bring in transparency in village accounts via the demand for minimum wages in rural India.
Gender Inequality in the UK Police Force: A Need for Departmental Diversity
14 March, 2016 By Katie Laurence As part of our commitment to the practical realisation of human rights across the Commonwealth, a major focus of CHRI is police reform.
CHRI Preliminary Comments and Key Concerns on Myanmar’s Draft Right to Information Bill, 2016
8 March, 2016 By Venkatesh Nayak CHRI has accessed an unofficial translation of the Draft RTI law of Myanmar, which can be found here.
Uganda's Elections - An Experiment in Democracy
By Kai Reddy Uganda is a country with a troubled and violent past that has steadily stabilized under the rule of President Yoweri Museveni. In 1986 Museveni usurped a leadership he has successfully held for 30 years to date and has been generally uncontested thus far.
JNU FALLOUT: CHRI CONDEMNS VIOLENCE IN PATIALA HOUSE COURT
Press Statement, New Delhi 18th February 2016 CHRI deplores the repeated unchecked violence and intimidation witnessed over the last few days in New Delhi.
The 'sedition' row at JNU - the law, how it's been applied in the past, and omissions by Delhi Police
By Venkatesh Nayak Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), where I spent a decade studying and researching history, is in the news all over again.
The Grave Need to Make Our Prisons Humane
By Madhurima Dhanuka In 1984, a prisoner aggrieved of deplorable prison conditions at the Bangalore Central Jail sent a letter to the Supreme Court.
Delhi top cop attracts rebuke: Wants to brutally beat criminals & shoot alleged rapists on spot
Delhi police commissioner BS Bassi said that the police was nowadays “committed to human rights” but bemoaned that the 1960s and 1970s were a bygone era in which criminals still feared the police, reported the New Indian Express.
Study reveals ‘Muslim areas of Delhi are less crime-infested’; Crime against women alarming
In the heinous crime map of Delhi, Muslim-dominated neighbourhoods can be termed as ‘brighter’ spots in comparison to other localities of the national capital.