MHA cancels FCRA licence of NGOs CHRI, AAWW

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Union Home Ministry has cancelled the FCRA licence of two NGOs — Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and Apne Aap Women Worldwide (AAWW) — for allegedly violating legal guidelines and diverting funds acquired from overseas, officers stated on Tuesday.

The NGOs allegedly did not file annual monetary returns mandated underneath the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 2010, they stated.

The Home Ministry has additionally discovered that the NGOs allegedly diverted funds acquired as international donations, the officers stated. The CHRI works within the area of realisation of individuals’s primary human proper to entry data from authorities and different public our bodies in Commonwealth international locations, in response to its web site.

The CHRI’s additionally works on police reforms programme that goals to understand elevated demand for rights-based police reform and the strengthening of police accountability within the Commonwealth, it stated.

The AAWW was co-founded by 22 girls from a red-light district in Mumbai, with a shared imaginative and prescient of a world the place no lady can be purchased or offered and finish intercourse trafficking, the NGO’s web site stated.

The authorities has cancelled the FCRA registration of almost 1,900 NGOs for violating numerous provisions of regulation within the final 5 years –between 2017 and 2021.