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Feb 07, 2019 Press-releases

"The global human rights implementation agenda: The role of national parliaments"

  60% of the recommendations under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) for Commonwealth countries require legislative action.

Feb 04, 2019 Multimedia Access to Information

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.

Feb 02, 2019 In-the-news

In the Northeast, a David versus Goliath battle

February 1 | The Hindu The tiny States in India’s east, the Davids, have put the Goliath of political parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party, on notice with a carefully aimed slingshot that may hurt the giant.

Feb 03, 2019 Blog

Computers intercepted, Transparency interrupted: MHA's CPIO refuses information about December 2018 authorisation order under the IT Act

Image courtesy: Counter Currents   Feb 03, 2019 By: Venkatesh Nayak Readers may remember the furore caused by an order issued by the Cyber and Information Security Division of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on 20 December, 2018, authorising 10 security and intelligence age

Jan 23, 2019 In-the-news Police Reform

CHRI seeks changes in SPCA for better efficiency

The Hindu | January 22, 2019 The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has written to the Chief Minister’s Office and the head of the State Police Complaints Authority (SPCA) seeking several changes in the working of the SPCA and the Maharashta Police (Amendment and Continuation) Act.

Jan 21, 2019 Blog

Latest appointments to the Central Information Commission: a critical assessment of the processes involved based on DoPT's documents

ImagefromThePrint Thedawnof2019sawthefillingupoffivevacanciesintheCentralInformationCommission(CIC).ServingInformationCommissioner,ShriSudhirBhargavawasappointedChiefInformationCommissioner. FourretiredcivilservantswereappointedInformationCommissioners.

Jan 24, 2019 Press-releases

'Strangers to Justice': CHRI’s report on foreign nationals imprisoned in India

  New Delhi, January 12: Diplomats, consular officials with foreign missions in India have called for simplification of processes that entangle and encumber foreign national prisoners (FNPs) in the country.

Jan 14, 2019 In-the-news Access to Information

How the broad interpretation of personal information is disarming the RTI act

  The Caravan, 14 January 2019 In the case of Girish R Deshpande vs Central Information Commissioner, the Supreme Court order, passed by a division bench of Dipak Misra and KS Radhakrishnan, states that income tax returns, assets, liabilities, official orders and performance records of pu

Jan 02, 2019 Press-releases

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.