Legal aid lawyers are human rights defenders: Justice Muralidhar CHRI national report, ‘HOPE BEHIND BARS?’ on legal aid launched
Sep 09, 2018 New Delhi, India Justice S Muralidhar, Justice of the Delhi High Court, today defined legal aid lawyers as ‘human rights defenders’, and urged them to abide by laws addressing human rights issues and not solely depend on the IPC and CrPC.
SC verdict is ‘call for action’ to Commonwealth Nations bound to colonial laws: CHRI
Sept 09, 2018 New Delhi, India The unanimous Indian Supreme Court judgment which ended the ban on consensual gay sex in private is a landmark verdict which is a “call to action” for all countries in the Commonwealth which still use regressive, outdated colonial law, the Commonwealt
Concluded: Workshop on RTI for civil society representatives in Bangladesh
CommonwealthHumanRightsInitiative(CHRI),NewDelhiinpartnershipwithTheHungerProject(THP),BangladeshorganisedadaylongworkshoponRTIwithcivilsocietyrepresentativesfromBangladesh.Theworkshopheldon01st September2018inDhakaandwasattendedbyaround30participants.
Concluded: Workshop on the use of RTI in Journalism in Bangladesh
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), New Delhi in partnership with The Hunger Project (THP), Bangladesh organised a day long workshop on RTI with journalists from Bangladesh.
CHRI calls recent Pune Police raids and arrests excessive, calls for transparency on charges
Aug 30, 2018 New Delhi, India The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) today expressed deep concern on the recent raids and arrests of social and civil rights advocates, among whom are human rights activists, academics, lawyers and priests.
Bring back ballot papers, Opposition tells Election Commission
Ahead of the all-party meeting called by the Election Commission, the Congress announced its request for ballot papers instead of electronic voting machines which it had alleged were tampered. Aug 27, 2018 (hindustantimes.
Kashmir Encounter: Releasing Court Martial Details Will Cause Public Outrage, Says Army
New Delhi, India Aug 21, 2018 The Indian Army is using all available legal means to suppress the public release of documents relating to the trial that found six army personnel guilty of killing three Kashmiri civilians in the Macchil fake encounter, HuffPost India has found.
CHRI condemns the alleged torture of Talib Hussain, urges immediate release from custody
Aug 10 , 2018 New Delhi, India The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) strongly condemns the alleged custodial torture of Talib Hussain, a lawyer and social activist, in Samba police station (Jammu) and urges his immediate release from police custody. Mr.
Action: CHRI's appeal for urgent action: Illegal arrest of Dr Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh)
CHRI submitted an urgent action appeal to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Working Group of Arbitrary Detention, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders and Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion a
Right to Information: Concern grows over proposed changes to law
Aug 08, 2018 (aljazeera.com) As government tries to amend act which allows citizens to seek official data, RTI hailed as 'one of the best laws'.