3,908 foreigners in prisons across India
DNA | January 21, 2019 As many as 871 foreign nationals are languishing in prisons across India for want of confirmation of their nationality. Only 222 out of the 3,908 foreign nationals in jail have received consular access.
CAB likely to strike down BJP’s prospect
BJP and its ruling coalition partners would have to pay heavy price in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls if what the experts dealing with the north eastern affairs say are any indication.
Migrant workers and their misery
Photo:;Nashirul Islam/Dhaka Tribune Dhaka Tribune,;January 13, 2019 Recent Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) intervention and research of proceedings in parliament has revealed that between 2012 and mid-2018 more than 24,570 Indian Workers died in these Gulf countries.
Probe allegations of rigging, intimidation: CHRI urges Bangladesh
New Delhi, January 2: A prominent international civil society group today called on the newly-elected government of Sheikh Hasina Wajed in Bangladesh to investigate allegations of vote rigging and intimidation in the recent elections.
Shroud of secrecy over how information officers were chosen
January 1, 2019 || The Telegraph Information commissioner Sudhir Bhargava will be sworn in as the chief information commissioner by President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday...
GBA must spearhead the formation and enforcement of Paralegal Act
Dec 31, 2018 || News Ghana The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) Report on “Turn-around Time in Criminal Justice Administration in Ghana” has recommended that the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) leads discussions on enacting and enforcing a Paralegal Act in Ghana.
JAIL MAIL: Human Rights Day 2018 -Prison Reforms: “Has anything changed on the ground?”
On the 70th Human Rights Day, celebrated to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), CHRI reviewed the critical issues which were deliberated on during the last six years in the 'Re Inhuman Conditions in 1382 jails' of this case.
Launch of landmark ‘Roadmap’ to end contemporary slavery in the Commonwealth by 2025
7th December 2018 At April’s Commonwealth Summit, a firm commitment was made to “eradicating forced labour, ending modern slavery and human trafficking, and securing the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour in all its forms by 2025.
SAMDEN calls upon Manipur CM to release journalist and withdraw defamation suit
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Upholding victims’ rights difficult with AFSPA in force: Activists
New Delhi, December 3 Morung Express Renewing calls for scrapping the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that gives immunity to the military from prosecution for actions in disturbed areas, human rights activists have said that upholding the rights and interests of victims is difficult in