Foreign Contribution
Foreign Contribution Received after 01 June 2015 Date Name of the Funder Purpose Grant ID Date of Receipt Amount INR 07-June-21 KALEIDOSCOPE DIVERSITY TRUST Protecting LGBT+ Rights in the Commonwealth
Interactive Map of Access to Information
September 28 was international Right to Know Day. To commemorate this occassion, CHRI has produced an interactive map that allows one to explore the status of access to information in each of the countries of the Commonwealth.
MEDIA STATEMENT HUMAN RIGHTS DAY – 10th December 2015
MEDIA STATEMENT HUMAN RIGHTS DAY – 10th December 2015 Today, December 10th, 2015, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative joins people, governments and organisations around the world in marking the 65th Human Rights Day.
CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COMMONWEALTH - REACHING FOR PARTNERSHIP
Closing civil society space across the Commonwealth provides the context for this report, while the driving force is the Commonwealth’s own set of core values.
Civil society demands a voice in Commonwealth
As Malta prepares to chair the Commonwealth for the next two years, NGOs have called on the Prime Minister to promote the protection of civil society, prevent their bases from closing and ensure they have a voice.
Commonwealth youth advocates and experts meet in Malta for the first pre-CHOGM forum
VALLETTA, Malta -- The 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta, which begins officially on Friday, opened on Saturday with the first pre-CHOGM event – the Commonwealth Youth Forum.
CMAG has placed Maldives “under formal consideration,” says Cameron
The Commonwealth’s human rights and democracy arm, the Ministerial Action Group, has placed the Maldives “under formal consideration,” according to UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
Central Information Commission returned over 8,500 pleas
NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has returned 8,534 cases — almost 15% of the cases received — to applicants over eight months on technical grounds.
Raise awareness on child abuse, stakeholders told
The world day for the prevention of child abuse has been held in Accra on Thursday with a call on stakeholders to support campaigns to end violence against children.
Gaiety in the Commonwealth? By Jill Cottrell Ghai and Yash Ghai
It is not easy being gay or lesbian in many countries, formerly British colonies, as in the middle of the nineteenth century Britain imposed on them Victorian attitudes to sex, particularly against homosexuality, through law.