174 NGOs call on the United Nations to condemn Bangladesh drug war
(idpc.net) Civil society calls on the UN to take action in response to the killing of 130 people suspected of drug dealing by the Bangladeshi police.
Guide for Prison Officers Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Asylum Seekers and refugees often get detained for lack of proper knowledge and the ambiguity of existing law with regard to their protection in India.
Fair and Unbiased Policing Still a Far Cry in India
(thewire.in) By Maja Daruwala Officialdom often likes to bad-mouth civil society organisations and NGOs for doing little of worth.
For 74 Indian activists, the punishment for seeking the truth has been death
(www.businessinsider.in) 68 Right to Information (RTI) activists have been killed since 2005, while 6 have committed suicide, according to the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.There is no law to protect activists or to prevent their personal details from falling into the wrong hands.
Sterlite/Vedanta, Coal India and POSCO are among 17 Indian companies blacklisted by Norway from investment of its pension funds
Image courtesy: www.thehindu.com June 01, 2018 By: Venkatesh Nayak Readers may recall the gory incidents that took place at Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) in Tamil Nadu in the southern part of India on 22 May, 2018.
Interview with Mr Venkatesh Nayak RTI movement INDIA (Sri Lanka)
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CHRI demands NHRC investigation, end to police excesses in Tuticorin
New Delhi, May 28, 2018 Calling for an immediate investigation by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) into the police firing that killed 13 protesters at the Sterlite Copper plant in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) condemns the continuing repressi
Memorandum on the Ghana RTI Bill, 2018 to the Joint Committee of Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and Communications
Ghana recently introduced the Right to Information Bill, 2018. The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has submitted a Memorandum on the Bill to the Joint Committee of Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and Communications in Ghana.
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Shabbirpur caste violence: Fact finding and Status update
Fact-finding (May 2017) CHRI was part of a national fact-finding organised by the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) to assess the situation in the aftermath of caste violence that took place on 5th May 2017 in Shabbirpur village of Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh.
The Bare Lives in Kashmir's Bountiful Gurez Need More Than a Dam, Mr PM
(thewire.in) By Wajahat Habibullah On a cold, rainy day, a contrast to Delhi’s heat and dust, I drove from Srinagar around the Wular, once Asia’s largest fresh water lake, now little more than a vast marshland, to the picturesque Bandipore across slushy potholed roads.