CHRI calls for "resolute action" against Maldives by CMAG

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has submitted a report to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) on the current situation of the Maldives, calling on the group to take “resolution action” against the Maldivian government.

Democracy in the Maldives Still in Decline: CHRI tells Commonwealth Ministers

20 April, 2016 Today the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG), a watchdog committee of the Commonwealth, will meet in London to decide if the Maldives has followed the group’s recommendations to stop the country’s slide to authoritarianism.

CHRI interviews Kamalesh Sharma, outgoing Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

  31 March, 2016 Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, the departing Secretary-General of the Commonwealth spoke with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative via email. The staff of the London office of CHRI asked Mr.

Maldives’ former President Mohamed Nasheed is free at last, but the future of Maldivian democracy is uncertain

  By Uladzimir Dzenisevich and Kai Reddy Prompted by alarming reports of human rights violations1, threats to democracy and the rule of law in the Maldives, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) mounted a fact-finding mission to the Maldives in November 2015 and will soon be rel

CMAG has placed Maldives “under formal consideration,” says Cameron

The Commonwealth’s human rights and democracy arm, the Ministerial Action Group, has placed the Maldives “under formal consideration,” according to UK Prime Minister David Cameron.