CHRI's launch landmark report on Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery, and Child Exploitation in the Commonwealth
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), launched its CHOGM report on Friday, 13th April, which set out recommendations through which governments and civil society could work towards ‘Sustainable Development Goal 8.7’ relating to the eradication of modern slavery.
'Commit to ending slavery', Commonwealth leaders told ahead of Queen's historic summit
(standard.co.uk) Commonwealth countries must act now to end modern slavery, according to a petition signed by more than 64,000 people.
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
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.
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.
Flyer -Legal Aid For Persons in Custody in India
71 percent of the prison population in India is either illiterate or educated below high school. Over 67 percent of these prisoners are undertrials and may continue to be held in overcrowded prisons for years.
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.
Future of RTI: Challenges and Opportunities event: Photos
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