Home ministry dodges query on cancelling foreign contribution licences of non-profits

July 08, 2023 scroll.in An RTI activist had asked the ministry to make the cancellation orders public.

Women struggle while men die in custody in India’s Uttar Pradesh

14 June 2023 (unbiasthenews.org) When 33-year-old Shahiba Bano is not busy trying to piece her life back together, her mind strays to the late-evening driving lessons with her husband. Learning how to ride a three-wheeler for a living was never on her agenda.

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) urges Commonwealth leaders to prioritise eradication of child labour

London, 12 June 2023: On this World Day Against Child Labour, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative calls upon leaders of Commonwealth nations to prioritise the eradication of child labour as a fundamental step towards creating a just and inclusive society.

RTI First Appeals Are Increasing So Is Public Resentment

Is India's transparency law failing its citizens? Here is why one of the world's best transparency laws is failing to make the government accountable. (https://theprobe.

Launch of report ‘Global Supply Chains & COVID-19. Exposing exploitation in the personal protective equipment sector in Malaysia and Australia’

CHRI launched the COAP Report, available here. The Report titled ‘Global Supply Chains & COVID-19.

Launch of report on Child Labour to mark International Human Solidarity Day

The report is titled “Children, not workers. Community based responses to child labour in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Virtual Event to Mark International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI)

To mark the International Day for Universal Access to Information on 28 September 2022, CHRI held a virtual forum to launch a compendium titled: ‘Implementing Anti-Human Trafficking Legislation: A Guide to Accessing Information through Right to Information Laws'.

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) urges Commonwealth leaders to protect press freedom

London, 3 May 2023: On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) reaffirms that principles of press freedom are indispensable to the protection of all other human rights.

RWANDA: QUESTIONABLE TRIAL AFTER JOURNALIST’S DEATH

86 ORGANIZATIONS REITERATE CALL FOR AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION Rwandan authorities must allow an independent, impartial and effective investigation into the death of the Rwandan journalist John Williams Ntwali, 86 civil society organizations and media associations said today, reiterating a 31

Why did the Delhi High Court say non-citizens have a right to information under the RTI Act?

Mar 18, 2023 (theleaflet.in) DOES the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) extend to non-citizens? It does, as per a Delhi High Court ruling this week which held that there cannot be an absolute prohibition on disclosure of information to non-citizens.