Legal Aid for Prisoners: Status Report on the Implementation of Three Schemes in Rajasthan 2019
This report is a follow up on CHRI’s 2016 report titled “Legal Aid for Prisoners: Status Report on the Implementation of Three Schemes in Rajasthan”.
Tanzania: CHRI among 38 NGOs calling on states to express concern over human rights situation
May 13, 2019: Today, CHRI and 37 Tanzanian, African and international human rights organisations have published a letter calling on states to use the next session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to raise concern over Tanzania’s situation in order to prevent a further deteriorati
CHRI community training on police and citizens' rights in Khar, Mumbai
CHRI was invited by the Maharashtra Ghar Kamgaar Vikas Sangathana (MGKVS -- a domestic wokers' union in Khar, Mumbai) to conduct a session on policing and citizens' rights with members of the community in Khar, Mumbai, on 27 April 2019.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference on the Rule of Law and Human Rights
Parliaments have a crucial role in ensuring the human rights for all. Together with the executive and the judiciary, they share a responsibility to enforce the rule of law and to implement their state's obligation to protect and promote human rights.
SAMDEN welcomes release of Reuters journalists in Myanmar, urges greater media freedom
New Delhi, May 7 -- While the release of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar after 17 months of imprisonment is a welcome step, authorities there must also respond to calls for greater media freedom, the South Asia Media Defenders Network (SAMDEN) said today.
Supreme Court remarks on illegal detention fly in face of India’s constitutional and international obligations: CHRI
[Image: Sentinel Assam] New Delhi, May 1 - The Supreme Court needs to reaffirm India’s constitutional and international obligations to rights on complex issues of nationality, detention and deportation and not be unmindful of its own commitment to these duties, the Commonwealth Hu
Committees to inquire into complaints against CIC: DoPT claims secrecy over the proposal and sends a copy of the RTI Act free of charge
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Important how to cover news
April 26, 2019 (DH news service) While freedom of the press is important, media personnel should follow a set of principles, Sanjoy Hazarika, Director of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), said.
OPINION | Politicians Flexing Muscles as EVMs Expose the Very Voter Privacy They Were Designed to Protect
April 22, 2019 (news18.com) By: Venkatesh Nayak “A man without a vote is a man without protection”, said Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th US President, arguably the oldest surviving democratic republic on the planet.
Nusrat killing: A spotlight on sexual violence in Bangladesh
[Bangladesh Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina with Nusrat Jahan Rafi's family on April 15, 2019.