This 75th Human Rights Day, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) shares with you its latest assessment of the working of India’s Police Complaints Authorities (PCAs). Police-public interface is an arena in which a very large number of human rights violations occur. PCAs have been established across India in compliance
New Delhi, 28 April, 2022– On 19th April, 2022, past 8.00pm, CHRI received an email communication from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of an order cancelling our registration certificate No. 231650671R issued on 09/03/1993. Earlier, on 07/06/2021, the Government had suspended CHRI’s registration under FCRA for a period of 180
New Delhi, December 17, 2021 – The latest analysis on prison occupancy released today by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative shows a 23 percent increase in the last two years, with over nine lakh more arrests during the pandemic alone. In the wake of these findings, CHRI urged the Supreme
Mumbai/New Delhi, December 14, 2021 – The Centre for Enquiry Into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT) and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) urged the Government of India and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to issue detailed guidelines in conformity with international standards on strengthening the role of health
Date: Mar 12, 2024 (the Wire) By: Venkatesh Nayak The Supreme Court of India refused to grant the State Bank of India extra time to furnish information about the buyers of electoral bonds (EBs) and the political parties that redeemed them. Instead, the court threatened the bank with penal action
Feb 16 2023 (newindianexpress.com) BENGALURU: The Congress on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court judgment striking down the electoral bonds scheme. The Grand Old Party “hoped that the Union Government will stop resorting to mischievous ideas in future”. Taking to ‘X’, AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge said, “On the day of
Feb 16, 2024 (aljazeera.com) New Delhi, India The Indian Supreme Court verdict on Thursday scrapping an opaque, election funding system has set off powerful tremors in the country’s politics, with transparency advocates arguing that it could expose those involved in a controversial form of political financing ahead of national
Feb 15, 2024 (thewire.in) The Supreme Court has declared electoral bonds, which allowed individuals and companies in India to donate anonymously to political parties, unconstitutional. It has ordered the State Bank of India to furnish details on donations and the political parties which received them, to the Election Commission,
Readers may remember from earlier this week, a detailed write-up about the refusal of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoI&B) to publicly disclose orders to block content on social and digital media platforms under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (2021 Rules) notified under the Information
Parliament’s Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice (the Standing Committee), recently pulled up the Central Information Commission (CIC) for relying on contractual staff for doing its mandated work while sanctioned posts of full time employees continued to remain vacant. In its 126th Report on the Demand for Grants made by the Union Ministry of Personnel, Public
