Togo and Gabon’s Admission to the Commonwealth: Member States Must Uphold Commonwealth Standards of Human Rights and Democracy
London, July 21 - With the recent addition of Togo and Gabon as the 55th and 56th members of the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) reiterates the need for Member States to comply with the fundamental principles and values as enshrined in Commonwealth frameworks, including
PMSVANidhi scheme for street vendors: RTI reveals 0.01% beneficiaries are from minority communities and less than 1% beneficiaries are persons with disabilities
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RTI reveals OBC street vendors have benefited the most and STs the least from the PMSVANidhi scheme
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PMSVANidhi Scheme for Street Vendors: geographical and demographic analysis of implementation data obtained through the RTI Act
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PMSVANidhi scheme for street vendors: RTI reveals 15.88% loans have turned into non-performing assets (NPAs)
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Reimagining pre trial justice: An overview of pre trial detention Sierra Leone
June 24, 2022 By: Ms. Lydia Winyi Kembabazi1 Globally, there are over three million people held in pre-trial detention and other forms of remand imprisonment throughout the world with a 30% rise of pre-trial detainees globally since the year 20002.
Pre-trial detention as a punishment: The situation for LGBT persons in Uganda
June 23, 2022 By: Adrian Jjuuko Pre-trial detention is commonplace in Uganda, because the reigning mentality in criminal investigations tends to favour the ‘arrest first, investigate later’ approach.
Pre-Trial Detention Time Limits: The Law on Paper and in Practice
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A petty legacy: Reducing pre-trial detention overcrowding by ending the criminalisation of poverty and status
June 18, 2022 By: Louise Edwards[1] A troubling legacy of the shared colonial history across the Commonwealth is the inheritance of criminal laws that, despite independence and democratic transformations, have either remained unchanged, or have been retained in some form.
Pre-trial detention is structural violence
June 17, 2022 By: Ambika Satkunanathan Pre-trial detention, particularly extended pre-trial detention, is common in South Asia with persons in pre-trial detention often constituting the majority of the prison population.