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May 16, 2022 Blog

How accurate are GoI's Annual RTI receipt Figures? Evidence of multiple counting of RTI application figures

Image courtesy: https://www.jagranjosh.com/ May 16, 2022 By: Venkatesh Nayak It has been quite a while since I sent around email alerts as I have been snowed down with other work.

Apr 28, 2022 Press-releases

Cancellation of our Registration under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010

  New Delhi, 28 April, 2022– On 19th April, 2022, past 8.00pm, CHRI received an email communication from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of an order cancelling our registration certificate No. 231650671R issued on 09/03/1993.

Apr 01, 2022 New Delhi

Director

Mr VENKATESH NAYAK is associated with CHRI in various capacities since April 2000. Before appointment as Director, CHRI India office, he was Programme Head of our Access to Information Programme since 2005 and was officiating as Director-in-Charge since December 2021. Mr.

Mar 14, 2022 Blog

Back to basics on human rights - the terrible lessons from Ukraine

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Is that an over-used quotation from Lord Acton’s letter in 1887 to Bishop Mandell Creighton? I don’t think so. Lord Acton was perfectly encapsulating ideas expressed by others before him.

Jan 28, 2022 About Us

London Office

Legal Research and Advocacy Officer, London office The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is offering an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, contributing to our human rights programmes in the areas of policy and legal analysis, research and advocacy.

Dec 17, 2021 In-the-news International Advocacy and Programming

Domestic Work is Work: 10 years after the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention, domestic workers are still fighting for recognition

17 December 2021 Sneh Aurora, Director, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Laura Skadhauge Bloom, Legal Research and Advocacy Officer, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative A decade ago, domestic workers rallied around a simple argument: Domestic Work is Work.

Dec 17, 2021 Press-releases

CHRI calls for decongestion of prisons: latest study shows 23% increase in prison population, lakhs more arrested in pandemic

  New Delhi, December 17, 2021 – The latest analysis on prison occupancy released today by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative shows a 23 percent increase in the last two years, with over nine lakh more arrests during the pandemic alone.

Dec 14, 2021 Press-releases

CEHAT and CHRI: Urge Govt of India and NHRC to issue guidelines on medico legal examination of custodial torture and death

Mumbai/New Delhi, December 14, 2021 – The Centre for Enquiry Into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT) and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI)  urged the Government of India and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to issue detailed guidelines in conformity with international s

Dec 10, 2021 Press-releases

Human Rights Day 2021: Commonwealth must acknowledge Domestic Work is Work

London, United Kingdom, 10 December 2021 (10:00 AM GMT) — To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Domestic Workers Convention (C189), today, International Human Rights Day, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) released its new report: Domestic Work is Work: Using ILO Convention 1

Dec 09, 2021 Press-releases

Nagaland killings: CHRI welcomes NHRC action, urges state to set up HRC and access to justice

December 9 2021, New Delhi – Welcoming the National Human Rights Commission’s (NHRC) notice to authorities seeking a detailed report on the recent killing of 14 civilians and one security personnel by the army, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) also today urged the apex rig