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Jul 16, 2022 Blog

RTI reveals OBC street vendors have benefited the most and STs the least from the PMSVANidhi scheme

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Jul 12, 2022 Blog

PMSVANidhi Scheme for Street Vendors: geographical and demographic analysis of implementation data obtained through the RTI Act

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Jul 09, 2022 Blog

PMSVANidhi scheme for street vendors: RTI reveals 15.88% loans have turned into non-performing assets (NPAs)

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Jun 24, 2022 Blog

Reimagining pre trial justice: An overview of pre trial detention Sierra Leone

June 24, 2022 By: Ms. Lydia Winyi Kembabazi1 Globally, there are over three million people held in pre-trial detention and other forms of remand imprisonment throughout the world with a 30% rise of pre-trial detainees globally since the year 20002.

Jun 23, 2022 Blog

Pre-trial detention as a punishment: The situation for LGBT persons in Uganda

June 23, 2022 By: Adrian Jjuuko Pre-trial detention is commonplace in Uganda, because the reigning mentality in criminal investigations tends to favour the ‘arrest first, investigate later’ approach.

Jun 17, 2022 Blog

Pre-trial detention is structural violence

June 17, 2022 By: Ambika Satkunanathan Pre-trial detention, particularly extended pre-trial detention, is common in South Asia with persons in pre-trial detention often constituting the majority of the prison population.

Jun 16, 2022 Blog

How are global prison trends reflected in Commonwealth countries?

Jun 16, 2022 By: Tríona Lenihan[1] Since 2015, Penal Reform International’s annual Global Prison Trends reports have analysed and documented trends in the use of imprisonment, changes and issues faced by people in prison – especially those belonging to certain, often vulnera

Jun 16, 2022 Press-releases

CHRI GOES TO CHOGM 2022

London 16 June 2022 - The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) will participate in events planned around the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled for 21 - 25 June in Kigali, Rwanda.

Jun 21, 2022 Publications Prison Reform

Message from the Chair of our International Board on the Release of CHRI’s CHOGM 2022 Report

The presumption of innocence, as affirmed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is one of the most fundamental human rights principles. Yet, of the 1.5 million prisoners detained across the Commonwealth more than 0.5 million are pre-trial detainees.

May 16, 2022 Blog

How accurate are GoI's Annual RTI receipt Figures? Evidence of multiple counting of RTI application figures

Image courtesy: https://www.jagranjosh.com/ May 16, 2022 By: Venkatesh Nayak It has been quite a while since I sent around email alerts as I have been snowed down with other work.