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CHRI Supports India And South Africa Call For COVID-19 Vaccine Waiver For Marginalised And Most Vulnerable
Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 8:19 am | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Equity and priority for the marginalised and most vulnerable in all countries must be the lodestone for the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine when it is ready for mass distribution, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) said today. Urging ... More >>
CHRI Condemns Nigerian Crackdown
Saturday, 24 October 2020, 6:54 am | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Calls For Judicial Commission To Investigate Violence, Initiate Police Reforms The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) condemns the excessive police violence against peaceful protestors in Nigeria and calls on the Government of Nigeria to ... More >>
Commonwealth Countries Must Act Urgently To Meet Modern Slavery Targets
Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:29 am | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Commonwealth countries have made little progress towards their commitment to eradicate modern slavery by 2030, despite an estimated 1 in every 150 people in the Commonwealth living in conditions of modern slavery. Global anti-slavery organisation Walk Free ... More >>
Black Lives Matter: Commonwealth Nations Must Address Local Prejudices – CHRI
Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 7:27 am | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Commonwealth nations need to recognise and address issues of systemic discrimination and unequal treatment in their own jurisdictions, with a sharp focus on policing and criminal justice systems, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has ... More >>
SAMDEN welcomes release of Reuters journalists in Myanmar
Wednesday, 8 May 2019, 9:50 am | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
SAMDEN welcomes release of Reuters journalists in Myanmar, urges greater media freedom More >>
Brunei's 'death by stoning' penalty for gay sex - CHRI
Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 10:02 am | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
New Delhi, April 1 : Brunei Darussalam’s plan to introduce the death penalty by stoning for same sex relations and adultery has triggered a call from a leading Commonwealth human rights organisation for the revocation of the country’s membership. Denouncing ... More >>
CHRI: Tuvalu should adopt recommendations in UN Review
Saturday, 12 May 2018, 11:34 am | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Geneva, May 10—Noting that Tuvalu has declared at the Third UN Universal Periodic Review here that it had taken steps to meet international concerns raised at the last UPR to improve its human rights situation, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative ... More >>
Report on Human Trafficking in the Commonwealth
Saturday, 14 April 2018, 11:21 am | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative launch landmark report on Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery, and Child Exploitation in the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is publishing the first-ever report on SDG8.7 within the ... More >>
A Black Mark in the Commonwealth's History
Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 4:57 pm | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
The Commonwealth has decided not to reassess Sri Lanka’s suitability to host the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2013. This decision runs contrary to the association’s fundamental values of human rights and democracy, and has ... More >>
FAQs: Sri Lanka as the host of CHOGM 2013
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 9:53 am | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
In early 2009 Sri Lanka’s long running armed conflict came to an end. Following this several serious allegations of human rights violations have been made on the warring parties including the government. A recent report by a Panel of Experts appointed ... More >>
The Perth Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 12:57 pm | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
The real issue before the Commonwealth summit in Perth, Australia, is whether its 54 member governments want this body to play a more important role in the world, or whether they will be accomplices in its continuing marginalisation. Few international ... More >>
EPG Seeks Radical Improvement in Human Rights
Friday, 23 September 2011, 2:03 pm | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
The Eminent Persons Group (EPG) of 2011, chaired by a former Prime Minister of Malaysia, is unlike its namesake of twenty-five years ago, which sought a negotiated end to South African apartheid. There is no war at present in the Commonwealth with international ... More >>
Sri Lanka and Fiji: Ghost Human Rights Commissions
Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 9:45 am | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
A National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) is a body created and funded by the state with a mandate to protect and promote human rights. In order for an NHRI to provide human rights education to the public, advise the government on human rights issues ... More >>
Commonwealth’s Rights Journey: Final Destination Sri Lanka?
Monday, 19 September 2011, 1:00 pm | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
The decision to hold the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka is strongly rumoured to be a done deal. The dice, it is said is cast. The Heads of Government meeting in Perth this October end is expected to cement the decision ... More >>
Letter to Trinidad and Tobago PM on Gambia
Monday, 16 November 2009, 2:42 pm | Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
I write as the Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI). CHRI is a respected international NGO. It is non partisan and independent. The areas of its work look at accountability and we promote in particular police reform and access ... More >>
