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.

Citizenship (Amendment) Act: Some facts vs ‘mythbusters’

Dec 17, 2019 (Economic Times) By: Sanjoy Hazarika GoI has reached out to those opposed to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) with a series of tweets, statements and declarations at political rallies.

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.

Electoral Bonds threat to Parliamentary Democracy

Dec 13, 2019 (Peoples Democracy) IT has been doing the rounds.  The surreptitious strike, which transformed the funding of political parties by the corporates, was of such far-reaching consequence, that the controversy has already reached the hallowed portals of the Supreme Court.

Cashiers, peon among those penalised for bank NPAs in FY18, reveals RTI

Dec 13, 2019 (Business Standard) FMs' statements in the Lok Sabha show that 41,360 public-sector bank employees have been held responsible and penalised for NPAs in last 5 financial years, including 6,049 in 2017-18 Responding to a question in the Lok Sabha on public-sector banks’

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.

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