Coalition Against Torture: Government officials should be accountable for excessive use of force, ill-treatment during COVID-19 lockdown
April 23, 2020 (amnesty.org.
Listening, leading and learning at the UN Human Rights Council: A Commonwealth story
22 April 2020 By Sanjoy Hazarika, international director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), and convenor of the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN Image: Anne Pakoa (Vanuatu Human Rights Coalition), Turenga Nakalevu (Homes of Hope), Sanjoy Hazari
Why Is the Police Stonewalling The Wire’s RTI Queries on the Delhi Violence?
April 20, 2020 (The wire) In February, one video that went viral on social media showed five young men, badly injured and lying on the roadside, being brutally beaten by policemen who were forcing them to sing the national anthem.
Combating Coronavirus in Small States: Leaving No One Behind – International Frameworks and the Threat to ESC Rights in SIDS
April 16, 2020 (Island Rights Initiative) By: Sarthak Roy The global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented situation across the world with states struggling to treat infected persons and contain the spread of the virus, which has no known cure as yet.
Access to Justice During Covid-19
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COVID-19: Jailed Human Rights Defenders Must Be Released Immediately
8 April 2020 Paris, In light of the serious threat posed to prisoners by the rapidly spreading novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, FIDH and its undersigned member organisations recall governments' obligation to ensure the safety and health of detained individuals that are under t
COVID-19 and Prisons in the Commonwealth: ‘Ensuring an Effective Response'
With the rising spread of the pandemic COVID-19 across the Commonwealth and globally, this document has been prepared to assist governments, prison departments, judiciary, legal services institutions and other stakeholders to undertake effective measures to ensure protection of all prisone
CHRI releases Guidelines to Police on Respecting Human Rights while Enforcing the Lockdown
With the rising spread of the pandemic COVID-19 , this document has been prepared by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative which proposes actionable measures to assist police departments across India to implement the critical task of enforcing the current nationwide lockdown within the Cons
Jail Mail: COVID-19 and Prisons in the Commonwealth ‘Ensuring an Effective Response’
Through this issue of Jail Mail, CHRI shares a note – COVID-19 and Prisons in the Commonwealth: ‘Ensuring an Effective Response’ addressed to the executive, judiciary, legal service providers and human rights institutions, on precautions to be taken inside prisons and measures to b
SAMDEN protests actions against Mir Shakilur Rahman and The Wire
April 4, 2020 Delhi/Kathmandu/Dhaka/Colombo/Boston, Leading editors and media professionals from South Asia today protested actions against the media in Pakistan and India: the detention of Pakistani editor and publisher Mir Shakilur Rahman in Lahore and legal action against the independent In