THE COMMONWEALTH AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL A Decade of Voting (2006-2016)
This report considers Commonwealth members’ voting patterns at the HRC and provides a basis for evaluating their engagement with the HRC to determine whether their voting behaviour is consistent with: HRC pledges, repeated commitments to Commonwealth values, votes of other Commonweal
A Brown Bag lunch with Mr. Kishore Bhargava
June 12, 2017 New Delhi The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) hosted an energetic discussion with Mr. Kishore Bhargava, CEO of Linkaxis Technologies and member of the Governing Board of the Society for Development Communications today.
All talk, little information
An assessment of relevant data recorded in the CIC’s annual reports of top government departments was conducted by Venkatesh Nayak and John Mascrinaus of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an international not-for-profit organisation, for Frontline in early May.
CHRI Brown Bag with Mr. R. K. Mathur
(L-R) Mr. Sanjoy Hazarika (Director), Mr. R. K. Mathur and Venkatesh Nayak New Delhi, 29th May 2017-- The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) hosted a brown bag lunch with Mr. R. K.
CHRI demands independent inquiry on UP Police role in the ongoing Saharanpur violence
NewDelhi, 29May2017 On14-15May2017,CommonwealthHumanRightsInitiative(CHRI)visitedviolence-affectedShabbirpurandneighbouringvillagesinSaharanpurdistrict,UttarPradesh,aspartofanationallevelfact-findingteamledbytheNationalCampaignonDalitHumanRights(NCDHR).
Cameroonian Flies Free, to Hope & Home
New Delhi, 27th April 2017: Forty five year old Cameroonian national, Sergelain Alain Betegue flew home to a new life and freedom after five years in an Indian jail. During transit at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, en-route to Yaoundé, Mr.
NHRC must monitor investigation of Maharashtra RTI activist’s murder: CHRI
April 11, 2017 New Delhi Condemning the murder of a prominent RTI activist from Pune, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative today demanded that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) monitor the ongoing police investigation.
'Commonwealth must address human rights abuses in Cameroon’: CHRI
March 31 New Delhi The Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has been urged to address the spiralling human rights violations in Cameroon, press President Biya to restore fundamental freedoms and refer the matter to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG).
Cry freedom: long road to open journalism in the Commonwealth
March 30, 2017 Hostility to press freedom and journalistic independence is growing across the Commonwealth and journalists face increasing obstruction and even physical danger.