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.
Interactions, exercising, exchange of ideas: CHRI RTI-learning programme concludes on a high note
The RTI-Learning Programme organised by CHRI for South Asian delegates from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Nepal, concluded on November 29, 2019, The delegates spent five days engaging with each other, discussing the experience of using RTI in their countries; attending sessions from subjec
Interactions, exercising, exchange of ideas: CHRI RTI-learning programme concludes on a high note
The RTI-Learning Programme organised by CHRI for South Asian delegates from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Nepal, concluded on November 29, 2019, The delegates spent five days engaging with each other, discussing the experience of using RTI in their countries; attending sessions from subjec
RTI-ed records reveal J&K's General Admin Dept. works at cross purposes with DoPT delaying application of Central RTI Act in J&K
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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.
RTI learning programme for media and civil society representatives from South Asia
Nov 25, 2019 Delhi, India CHRI is hosting a week-long RTI Learning Programme (RTI-LP) for civil society and media representatives from South Asia from 25th November, 2019.
Between hope and despair: A review of Sanjoy Hazarika's book 'Strangers No More'
(The book Reviewindia.org) A journey through the eight States of North East India, the present book is a sequel to Sanjoy Hazarika’s earlier published and much acclaimed title Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India’s Northeast.
CIC to hear RTI appeals of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh residents from November
(The Economic Times) NEW DELHI: Information shared by foreign governments in confidence would be out of bounds for the residents of the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, like the rest of India, and appeals under the RTI Act may have to wait for two years before being heard.
India's Chief Justice under RTI Act
Nov 14, 2019 On 13th November, 2019 a 5-Judge Constitution Bench of India's Supreme Court unanimously held, as the head of that Court, the Chief Justice of India is covered by The Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act).