CHRI Releases Updated Human Rights Advocacy Guide
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) today released an updated handbook on human rights advocacy in the Commonwealth. Our last edition was published in 2005.
CHRI urges Centre, states to effect police reforms
Highlighting lack of concrete steps taken towards police reforms, a human rights group body today urged the Centre and the state governments to take measures in this direction.
A News Conference in Delhi finds Indian Police Reform in the Doldrums
On the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Prakash Singh judgment in 2006, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) partnered with the Indian Police Foundation (IPF) at a news conference today and called on states and the Centre to urgently improve police
Ten Years and waiting: A wasted initiative on Police reform
Maja Daruwala, director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, laments the wasted opportunity of the Prakash Singh judgment, passed 10 years go today by the Supreme Court.
CHRI on the Maldives and India’s silence on the country’s worsening situation
During Yameen’s visit to New Delhi on the eve of the April CMAG meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pointed at India’s role as the “net security provider” in the Indian Ocean.
Ten Years Since Supreme Court Verdict on Police Reform
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in partnership with Indian Police Foundation is organising a conference to mark 'Ten Years of the Supreme Court Verdict on Police Reforms' on 23rd September, 2016 at Mavalankar Auditorium, Constitution Club of India, Rafi Marg (Behind Reserve Bank of
CHRI, in a report, draws attention to dire situation in the Maldives
This submission from the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) draws attention to serious failures of the Maldives government to make progress on priority areas identified by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) in February 2016.
AFSPA’s Potential for abuse: What writers of the Constitution say
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CHRI revives monthly RTI news digest
This digest of Right to Information (RTI) related news stories across South Asia is a Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) effort to present a monthly compilation of online media coverage on use of public information in the region.
Security forces raid the Maldives Independent: A CHRI perspective
Posters calling for the freedom of the exiled former president of the Maldives can still be seen in the capital.