Time to Raise the bar

(mydigitalfc.com) By Madhurima Dhanuka The recent extradition hearings in the UK of alleged bookie Sanjeev Chawla and liquor baron Vijay Mallya have highlighted the violence and overcrowding in Indian prisons.

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Why is Assam burning?

May 16, 2018 (Delhipostnews.com) The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 was proposed by the Government as a response to the influx of illegal immigrants from neighboring countries into India.

Cameroon: UN Review should condemn crackdown on rights

15 May 2018 Geneva Cameroon’s human rights situation is to be reviewed at the United Nations' Human Rights Council in Geneva today, under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism.

Canada defends human rights record during UPR

May 11, 2018 Geneva During Canada’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) last week at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), members of the Council urged Canada to improve its treatment of Indigenous people, in particular women and girls.

CHRI lauds Bangladesh for sheltering Rohingyas

(Thedailystar.net) Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has lauded Bangladesh for sheltering some 700,000 Rohingya refugees since the latest influx from Myanmar, but expressed deep concerns over growing attacks on secular bloggers and journalists.

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.