Prison Reforms : Justice Centres Project
The Justice Centres project was initiated in 2008 as a pilot to promote increased access to justice and protection of human rights of poor and indigent arrested persons within the criminal justice system in West Africa.
Interactive Map of Access to Information
September 28 was international Right to Know Day. To commemorate this occassion, CHRI has produced an interactive map that allows one to explore the status of access to information in each of the countries of the Commonwealth.
ROUGH ROADS TO EQUALITY - Women Police in Bangladesh
This report critically examines the situation of women in policing in Bangladesh. It is based on the premise that gender equality, besides being a value to be upheld in and of itself, is a vital attribute for effective and genuinely impartial law enforcement.
Civil society demands a voice in Commonwealth
As Malta prepares to chair the Commonwealth for the next two years, NGOs have called on the Prime Minister to promote the protection of civil society, prevent their bases from closing and ensure they have a voice.
Central Information Commission returned over 8,500 pleas
NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has returned 8,534 cases — almost 15% of the cases received — to applicants over eight months on technical grounds.
CIC returns 12% of info appeals with little explanation
New analysis by Right to Information activists confirms that the Central Information Commission is returning requests for information at a high rate to the applicants.
RTI activists disappointed over CM’s ‘lack of transparency’
Right to Information (RTI) activists who had written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal regarding what they claimed was a 'lack of transparency and public consultation' in relation to the proposed Delhi Lokpal Bill and the Service Delivery Amendment Bill are 'deeply disappointed' at t
Classically British Fudge: Codified Rights in an Unwritten Constitution By Sashy Nathan
Unlike our counterparts in the US, the UK Constitution is not revered and its discussion is usually greeted by a huge, apathetic yawn.
Gaiety in the Commonwealth? By Jill Cottrell Ghai and Yash Ghai
It is not easy being gay or lesbian in many countries, formerly British colonies, as in the middle of the nineteenth century Britain imposed on them Victorian attitudes to sex, particularly against homosexuality, through law.
CHRI urges the lifting of the state of emergency and restoration of constitutional rights and freedoms in the Maldives By Uladzimir Dzenisevich and Devika Prasad
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) notes with deep concern the declaration of a state of emergency in the Maldives.