JNU FALLOUT: CHRI CONDEMNS VIOLENCE IN PATIALA HOUSE COURT
Press Statement, New Delhi 18th February 2016 CHRI deplores the repeated unchecked violence and intimidation witnessed over the last few days in New Delhi.
The 'sedition' row at JNU - the law, how it's been applied in the past, and omissions by Delhi Police
By Venkatesh Nayak Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), where I spent a decade studying and researching history, is in the news all over again.
The Grave Need to Make Our Prisons Humane
By Madhurima Dhanuka In 1984, a prisoner aggrieved of deplorable prison conditions at the Bangalore Central Jail sent a letter to the Supreme Court.
Delhi top cop attracts rebuke: Wants to brutally beat criminals & shoot alleged rapists on spot
Delhi police commissioner BS Bassi said that the police was nowadays “committed to human rights” but bemoaned that the 1960s and 1970s were a bygone era in which criminals still feared the police, reported the New Indian Express.
Study reveals ‘Muslim areas of Delhi are less crime-infested’; Crime against women alarming
In the heinous crime map of Delhi, Muslim-dominated neighbourhoods can be termed as ‘brighter’ spots in comparison to other localities of the national capital.
Praja Foundation and CHRI released their first report on state of policing and Law & order in Delhi
Delhi, 15st December, 2015: Praja Foundation and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) released their first report on state of policing and Law & order in Delhi with the aim to provide a holistic view, in very objective terms relying solely on official data, of the state of crime an
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.
Time for Uganda to enact anti-torture legislation
Despite frequent and widespread reports of torture by various human rights bodies, including the Uganda Human Rights Commission and the African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, the actual criminal offence of torture does not exist in Uganda.