From Climate crisis to Human Exploitation
* NEW PUBLICATION * FROM CLIMATE CRISIS TO HUMAN EXPLOITATION EXAMINING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL VULNERABILITY IN SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES FOCUS ON ANTIGUA & BARBUDA We are pleased to announce the launch of a new research report examining the intersection between climate change and vulnerability to human exploitation, with a specific focus on Antigua and Barbu
Who Controls The Narrative Freedom of Expression Report
* NEW PUBLICATION * WHO CONTROLS THE NARRATIVE? LEGAL RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN THE COMMONWEALTH The Report will be released on 9 September 2025 at 00.
Revised & updated RTI User Guide, 2025
Revised and updated RTI User Guide, 2025. Download the report here.
Simultaneous Elections to the 18th Lok Sabha & Four Vidhan Sabhas Held in 2024: Campaign Expenditure Analysis
The General Elections to the 18th Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabhas of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim were held between April and June 2024. How much money did the political parties collectively spend on the election campaign is not publicly known. CHRI has completed a study of the analysis of the campaign expenditure trends of 22 national and state level political parties.
2024 International Day for the Elimination of VAW
FROM INTENT TO IMPLEMENTATION: ACTION ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE POST CHOGM 2024 Ending violence against women and girls, which rose sharply during COVID-19, is one of the four Commonwealth priorities on gender equality.
Who Controls the Narrative? Legal restrictions on Freedom of Expression in the Commonwealth
CHRI’s Report to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2024 CHRI’s 2024 report to CHOGM, focuses on restrictions on freedom of expression: ‘Who Controls the Narrative? Legal restrictions on Freedom of Expression in the Commonwealth.
Rape and Rape/Gangrape with Murder in India: Incidence and Disposal of Cases- A Preliminary Study
Image courtesy: Gulistan News Oct 10, 2024 By: Venkatesh Nayak In July 2014 we published a preliminary analysis of publicly available government data about the incidence of the heinous crime of rape since the dawn of the 21st century and covering a 13-year period (2001 – 2013).
Submission to the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) Samoa,2024
INTRODUCTION The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an independent, international non-governmental organisation working for the practical realisation of human rights in the Commonwealth.
Joint Statement from the Commonwealth Trade Union Group (CTUG), Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) to mark International Workers' Memorial Day and the International Labour Organization’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2024.
This year’s theme ‘The impacts of climate change on occupational safety and health’ seeks a drastic shift in political priorities, policy coherence and agenda setting to address climate change, occupational safety and health hazards and risks to workers.
Police Complaints Authorities in India
Seventeen years ago, in its landmark judgement on police reforms- Prakash Singh & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors, (2006), the Supreme Court of India directed all States and Union Territories to set up Police Complaints Authorities (PCAs) at the state as well as the district level.