NCRB releases its latest report on Prison Statistics India (PSI, 2016)
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has published the 22nd edition of the ‘Prison Statistics India, 2016’.
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.
Road to Release- Fourth Watch Report on Rajasthan’s Periodic Review Committees
Rajasthan's Periodic Review Committees (PRCs) or Avadhik Samiksha Samitis, established by a government order in 1979, have been pivotal in monitoring pre-trial detention in the state.
Your Guide to Using The Right to Information Act 2005 (2018)
One of the surest ways of ensuring that the RTI Act 2005 is properly implemented and serves its purpose of making the government more responsive, is for all of us to use it frequently responsibly and effectively. It is with this aim in mind that CHRI has developed this User’s Guide.
RTI Trumps Over Official Secrets – But Govt Remains Unyielding
MoneyLife | 22 March 2019 States Venkatesh Nayak, RTI research scholar and programme coordinator of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI). "Several government-appointed committees including the H. D.
Model Policy for Women in Police in India
Increasing the numbers and role of women in police has slowly, albeit firmly, gained policy recognition in India.
Police depts need to proactively change processes to ensure gender equity, CHRI’s latest report shows
New Delhi, March 28: Calling for a significant surge in women recruitment in the police as a lever to push for police reforms, change public perceptions and improve good governance, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant declared today that this would “radically” transform policing i
In historic move, Ghanian President signs into law the Right to Information Act
Ghana’s president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on May 21 signed into law the Right To Information (RTI) Act, about two months after Parliament passed it.
Reality of impunity, rhetoric of human rights
Maja Daruwala & Devika Prasad | The Hindu, March 20, 2019 In May 2017, addressing representatives from countries at the UN’s Human Rights Council, the then Attorney General of India said, “The concept of torture is completely alien to our culture and it has no place in the governa