Kailash Satyarthi to release CHRI report to CHOGM on trafficking
April 12, 2018 London Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi and UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery will be top draws tomorrow at the launch of a report by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) to Commonwealth heads of governments on SDG 8.
SDG 8.7
Strengthening the Commonwealth to achieve SDG 8.7 The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all UN Member States in 2015. Under SDG Target 8.
Flyer -Legal Aid For Persons in Custody in India
71 percent of the prison population in India is either illiterate or educated below high school. Over 67 percent of these prisoners are undertrials and may continue to be held in overcrowded prisons for years.
Two more RTI activists murdered; no end seen to this sordid saga
20 March 2018: Prominent Right to Information (RTI) activist and youth leader of Nagaland, Poipynhun Majaw was killed in the State’s coal belt in the Jantia Hills district.
Future of RTI: Challenges and Opportunities event: Photos
SAMDEN: 'alarming pattern' in attacks on media, says ‘impunity recognizes no borders’
March 29, 2018 New Delhi, India Declaring that ‘impunity recognizes no boundaries’, 20 prominent editors and media figures from a media rights network across South Asia, including India, Bangladesh and Pakistan today slammed the recent killings of journalists in India and Pakistan
'Festival of Commonwealth Films- Human Rights' at CHOGM
A CHOGM first, the Festival of Commonwealth Films- Human Rights is being organised by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in partnership with the Commonwealth Foundation.
States will benefit from an independent PCA
(Hindustan Times) By:Pavani Nagaraja An independent Police Complaints Authority (PCA) is being constituted for Delhi to inquire into complaints by the public against the police.
Celebrating 14 years of RTI in J&K
CHRI and J&K RTI Movement in collaboration with Centre for Central Asian Studies, Kashmir University is organised an event – “14 years of RTI Movement in J&K”. The event is sponsored by FNF. Prof.
CIC reports more than 6% dip in the total number of RTI applications received by Central Government
March 16, 2018 By: Venkatesh Nayak Readers will remember that through our Rapid Review Reports published since 2013 based on the Annual Reports of Information Commissions across the country, we have been reporting that the number of requests for information submitted to public author