Dy Chairman Rajya Sabha launches CHRI publications, calls for legal awareness, media partnerships
December 17, 2019 New Delhi, India The Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha has called for media partnerships with civil society and stakeholders, especially vulnerable groups, to help develop legal literacy and understanding of fundamental rights.
'Encounter' killings: India must honour its pledges to the UN Human Rights Council`
Dec 18, 2019 (South Asia Monitor) By: Sanjoy Hazarika & Sarthak Roy India was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for a three-year term, its fourth since the UNHRC was formed in 2006 to hold governments to account on their human rights record.
CHRI demands swift investigation of violence in Jamia Millia, AMU, Says NHRC must act 'decisively'
Dec 16, 2019 New Delhi, India The tragic set of events in South Delhi yesterday evening, marked by severe violence, demands strict action against the police personnel who were complicit in perpetrating the violence against the students of Jamia Millia Islamia University.
CHRI says CAB passage without adequate dialogue, concerned about legal confrontation
Dec 10, 2019 New Delhi, India A momentous law like the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) has been rushed through the Lok Sabha and is to go to the Rajya Sabha without adequate debate and public discourse, CHRI's India Executive Committee said today.
Close Encounters of Fatal Kind: Killing of 4 Rape-and-murder Accused in Hyde Raises Troubling Questions
Dec 10, 2019 (News 18) By: Sanjoy Hazarika While the matter needs thorough investigation, at first glance the police version of the events has numerous gaps, to say the least, because at the very fundamental level it strains credulity.
Encounter needs robust investigation, police accountability and strict compliance with Supreme Court guidelines, legal procedures: CHRI
7 December 2019 New Delhi, India The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) today called on the Telangana Police and state government to ensure exhaustive, impartial, and independent investigations into the police shooting of the four suspects in the Hyderabad gangrape and mur
CHRI's 3rd Annual Film Festival
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) organised its third annual film festival on human rights on December 10th-11th at M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Francaise de Delhi. Our theme this year was - Article 19: Freedom of Expression.
The Northeast, India’s volatile periphery
Nov 21, 2019 (Nationalia.info) Surrounded by five countries and connected to the rest of India by a tiny corridor between Bhutan and Bangladesh, the Northeast symbolizes the distant and forgotten periphery of New Delhi.
'Enforced disappearance' of Pakistani HR defender
Nov 20, 2019 Islamabad, Pakistan It has now been a week since human rights defender and political activist Idris Khattak was abducted, allegedly by unidentified persons in Swabi.
CHRI, CSNSR in Odisha launch new report on Crime and Policing
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and Centre for the Sustainable Use of Natural and Social Resources (CSNSR) have launched "The State of Crime and Policing in Odisha: Results of a Study Conducted in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Jajpur and Kandhamal” on 7th Novembe