Amid rising attacks, Commonwealth nations urged to tackle threats to media freedom
Call to sign 12-point code of principles; London to host CHOGM next week Six Commonwealth organisations have called on member states to sign up to a 12-point code of principles on freedom of expression and the media, ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London next week, and
CHRI in Commonwealth discussion on growing pressures on the media
April 11th saw an all star lineup for a panel discussion 'In defence of free media: What can the Commonwealth do?' at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London.
Kailash Satyarthi to release CHRI report to CHOGM on trafficking
April 12, 2018 London Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi and UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery will be top draws tomorrow at the launch of a report by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) to Commonwealth heads of governments on SDG 8.
CHRI at CHOGM April 2018
CHRI is organising a series of side events during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London this month.
SDG 8.7
Strengthening the Commonwealth to achieve SDG 8.7 The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all UN Member States in 2015. Under SDG Target 8.
Two more RTI activists murdered; no end seen to this sordid saga
20 March 2018: Prominent Right to Information (RTI) activist and youth leader of Nagaland, Poipynhun Majaw was killed in the State’s coal belt in the Jantia Hills district.
CHRI's first annual lecture on human rights,"The State of Human Rights and the Limits of Jurisprudence" By Justice Madan B.Lokur
SAMDEN: 'alarming pattern' in attacks on media, says ‘impunity recognizes no borders’
March 29, 2018 New Delhi, India Declaring that ‘impunity recognizes no boundaries’, 20 prominent editors and media figures from a media rights network across South Asia, including India, Bangladesh and Pakistan today slammed the recent killings of journalists in India and Pakistan
'Festival of Commonwealth Films- Human Rights' at CHOGM
A CHOGM first, the Festival of Commonwealth Films- Human Rights is being organised by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in partnership with the Commonwealth Foundation.
States will benefit from an independent PCA
(Hindustan Times) By:Pavani Nagaraja An independent Police Complaints Authority (PCA) is being constituted for Delhi to inquire into complaints by the public against the police.