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Apr 08, 2020 Publications Police Reform

CHRI releases Guidelines to Police on Respecting Human Rights while Enforcing the Lockdown

With the rising spread of the pandemic COVID-19 , this document has been prepared by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative  which proposes actionable measures to assist police departments across India to implement the critical task of enforcing the current nationwide lockdown within the Cons

Apr 08, 2020 In-the-news International Advocacy and Programming

CPJ, 80 media and rights groups urge African heads of state to release jailed journalists

To:       President of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune  President of Benin Patrice Talon President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza President of Cameroon Paul Biya President of Chad Idriss Deby President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi President of Erit

Apr 08, 2020 Publications Prison Reform

Jail Mail: COVID-19 and Prisons in the Commonwealth ‘Ensuring an Effective Response’

Through this issue of Jail Mail, CHRI shares a note – COVID-19 and Prisons in the Commonwealth: ‘Ensuring an Effective Response’ addressed to the executive, judiciary, legal service providers and human rights institutions, on precautions to be taken inside prisons and measures to b

Apr 04, 2020 Press-releases

SAMDEN protests actions against Mir Shakilur Rahman and The Wire

April 4, 2020 Delhi/Kathmandu/Dhaka/Colombo/Boston, Leading editors and media professionals from South Asia today protested actions against the media in Pakistan and India: the detention of Pakistani editor and publisher Mir Shakilur Rahman in Lahore and legal action against the independent In

Apr 03, 2020 Press-releases

Review Migrant Relief Camps as well as Police, Prison Preparedness: CHRI to NHRC

April 03, 2020 The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to review conditions in relief camps for migrants and emphasize police professionalism and prison preparedness during the lockdown.

Apr 01, 2020 Press-releases

Respect Human Rights while Enforcing the Lockdown: Guidelines for the Police

 April 1, 2020 Responding to vivid accounts of police brutality and arbitrariness across India during the nationwide lockdown, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has framed a set of guidelines to assist police departments to enforce the lockdown within the Constitutional

Apr 01, 2020 In-the-news Police Reform

Respect human rights while enforcing lockdown: Guidelines for police in India from CHRI

April 01, 2020 (South Asia Monitor) Responding to vivid accounts of police brutality and arbitrariness across India during the nationwide lockdown, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has framed a set of guidelines to assist police departments to enforce the lockdown within the Constituti

Apr 02, 2020 In-the-news Access to Information

Deathly Subsistence

Mar 31, 2020 (Caravan Magazine) Devendher Kasholla was set to return home in three weeks, to celebrate his older brother’s wedding.

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Mar 29, 2020 In-the-news Prison Reform

Virus scare: Parole, bail for 3000 in Bengal

Mar 29, 2020 (Telegraph India) The Bengal government has decided to release 3,076 convicts and undertrials for three months on parole and interim bail from correctional homes across the state to decongest over-crowded jails in the wake of the coronavirus.