Kashmiris Struggle With RTI Delays Due To Modi Govt’s Ill-Planned Article 370 Move
A review of two recent CIC orders and interviews with activists show that in Kashmir, an existing RTI system that ensured relatively quicker access to information for local residents has been replaced by a slower process riddled with red tape. Nov 19, 2011 (huffingtonpost.
Is Right to Information regime losing steam in its 16th year?
Nov 1, 2020 (Economic Times) On October 12, 2005, the first Right to Information (RTI) query was filed in a police station of Pune, heralding a new age of freedom of information and transparency.
The visible apathy of invisible commissions: Whither lockdown performance?
Oct 29, 2020 counterview.
India committed Covid-19 aid to 150 countries, says PM Modi; RTI says 81
Oct 29, 2020 Deccan Herald Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a United Nations forum in mid-July that India has extended medical and other assistance to over 150 countries in the wake of Covid-19 but an RTI response has shown that New Delhi has committed aid only to 81 countries to the tune
CHRI condemns Nigerian crackdown calls for Judicial Commission to investigate violence, initiate police reforms
Oct 23, 2020 New Delhi/Accra The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) condemns the excessive police violence against peaceful protestors in Nigeria and calls on the Government of Nigeria to stop the crackdown that has taken a toll of over 60 lives, ensure accountability for excess
CHRi's Statement On Covid-19 And Contemporary Forms of Slavery Submitted to the 45th Regular Session of the Un Human Rights Council
CHRI submitted a joint written statement on the 'Impact of COVID-19 on Contemporary Forms of Slavery', in collaboration with the Commonwealth 8.7 Network, for the 45th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council.
CHRI MAKES AN ORAL STATEMENT AT THE UPR REPORT CONSIDERATION OF KIRIBATI AT THE 45th REGULAR SESSION OF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Geneva CHRI delivered a video oral statement at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report consideration of Kiribati (Agenda Item 6) at the 45th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council. CHRI was among the six civil society organisations that intervened during the debate.
Prasar Bharati's Threat to PTI on 'Anti-National Reporting' Did Not Have Board Clearance
Sept 28, 2020 (The Wire.
Barriers in Accessing Justice
This report documents 14 case studies from Uttar Pradesh, India of police refusal and failure to register complaints of survivors of sexual assault.
CHRI MAKES A VIDEO INTERVENTION IN THE INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE WORKING GROUP ON ARBITRARY DETENTION AT THE 45th REGULAR SESSION OF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Geneva CHRI delivered a video oral statement in the Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (Agenda Item 3) at the 45th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council.