New Delhi, April 26

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has cancelled the FCRA registration of NGOs Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and Apne Aap Women Worldwide (AAWW) and debarred them from receiving international donations for allegedly failing to file annual monetary returns mandated beneath the legislation, officers mentioned.

The organisations

• Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI)
• Apne Aap Women Worldwide (AAWW)

Reason for motion

These NGOs allegedly did not file their annual monetary returns mandated beneath the legislation

Every organisation registered beneath the provisions of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, is remitted beneath the legislation to file annual return on abroad cash obtained and their expenditure.

The officers additionally confirmed that the ministry has discovered that the NGOs allegedly diverted funds obtained as international donations.

The CHRI allegedly spent funds obtained in India for the advantage of these overseas and offered session to an entity abroad.

It 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 line with its web site.

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 girl can be purchased or offered and ending intercourse trafficking, the NGO’s web site mentioned.