Programme Officer, Access to Information Programme

The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, non-governmental organisation working for human rights across the Commonwealth.

Trafficking in Pacific will end only if Govts and CSOs work together: CHRI

Sept 12, 2019 Geneva With moving testimony about the challenges of rising human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery, civil society leaders from Fiji and Vanuatu called on governments and international stakeholders here to work with civil society in the Pacific to address the issue an

Anti-women violence: CHRI asks Ramaphosa to spell out plans

Sept 6, 2019 New Delhi, India The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) today called on South African authorities to take strong action within the law to stop the escalation of violence against women in that country, noting that a major nationwide strike on the issue was gathering extens

Physical Abuse, Electric Shocks and Torture: What a Supreme Court Ordered Study Found in Haryana Jails

The methods of torture stated in the report include verbal abuse and slapping, as well as more extreme methods such as giving electric shocks, water boarding, sleep deprivation, harm to sexual parts of the body. New Delhi, India  Aug 28, 2019 (news18.

CHRI Among 28 International Ngos Calling On The Un Hrc To Address The Human Rights Crisis In Cambodia At Its 42nd Session

  Aug 30, 2019:  CHRI and 27 international human rights organisations working within and outside Cambodia have published a letter calling on States to address the ongoing human rights crisis in Cambodia and to support a resolution ensuring strengthened scrutiny of the situation in th

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) Africa Office calls for Police to be Properly Equipped to Fight Crime

Aug 29, 2019 The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) Africa Office condemns in the strongest possible terms the spate of attacks and killings of officers of the Ghana Police Service (GPS).

Civil Society Sets Up RTI Implementation Committee

Aug 27, 2019 The Coalition on the Right to Information, Ghana (RTI Coalition) and its collaborators are happy to announce the formation of a 13-member technical committee known as the Civil Society RTI Implementation Committee, which began work from Thursday 8th August, 2019.

A crackdown in India on suspected illegal immigrants could leave millions stateless

August 27, 2019 Guwahati. India (beta.washingtonpost.

Police reforms still largely only on paper

Aug 09, 2019 By: Devika Prasad (frontline.thehindu.com) In 2006, the Supreme Court issued seven directives for police reform in Prakash Singh and others vs Union of India and others.