CHRI: protect journalists, minority rights, end impunity, high praise for handling of Rohingya crisis
Geneva / Delhi May 12, 2018 Bangladesh needs to show it is taking action to protect journalists and bloggers, human rights defenders, strongly defend minority rights and tackle issues arising from impunity around enforced disappearances when its human rights record comes up on for review Monda
CSOs and Parliamentary Committee meet to discuss Ghana's RTI Bill
Mina Mensah, head of CHRI's Africa office in Accra, Ghana, asks a question of a parliamentary committee during an interaction between the latter and CSO to discuss Ghana's Right to Information bill.
For Haryana Police, the Holy Cow Is an Excuse for Extra-Judicial Killings
May 10, 2018 (thewire.in) Nuh (Haryana): On the wintry night of December 6, 2017, as Shareef lay on the bed in his courtyard in Salaheri village in Nuh, flashes of memory from 25 years ago kept disrupting his sleep.
CHRI: Tuvalu should adopt recommendations in UN Review
May 10, 2018 Geneva Noting that Tuvalu has declared at the Third UN Universal Periodic Review here that it had taken steps to meet international concerns raised at the last UPR to improve its human rights situation, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) today called on the country’
University of Sheffield establishes first UNESCO Chair in Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity
May 05, 2018 Research into the threats faced by journalists across the world – including censorship, violence and even death – will be explored by the first UNESCO Chair in Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity.
Denial of sanction to prosecute defence personnel under J&KAFSPA: Defence Ministry and Indian Army deny they hold case-related records and procedural information
Image courtesy: https://www.indiatimes.com/ Last week, there was both good news and "not so good" news on the AFSPA front across the country.
Rajinder Sachar: A Courageous Heart
New Delhi, 22 April, 2018 Remembering the late Justice Rajinder Sachar as a relentless fighter for truth and justice, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), described him as a “generous, reflective and courageous heart and mind “.
Sanjoy Hazarika, International Director's remarks at CHRI's 30th anniversary reception at the House of Lords on 18th April
Lord Carlile, Baroness Stern, Richard Bourne, Maja Daruwala, members of the house of Commons and members of the House of Lords, distinguished colleagues and friends: Thank you for being here.
Rites of Passage: Border Crossings, Imagined Homelands, India's East and Bangladesh (2000)
In many parts of India, particularly North-east India, the issue of migration is not just an emotive one, its a very question of survival of communities.
Writing on the Wall: Reflections on the North-East (2008)
Decades of State and non-State violence in India’s landlocked North-east have taken a heavy toll on livelihoods, incomes, governance, growth and image, besides lives.