Crime & Justice

GWANGJU, South Korea

Seeking Justice for Dictatorship Victims – Two Continents Apart

By Supalak Ganjanakhundee
As news of the death of former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla in a prison cell spread around the world, Julia Parodi, who was in this South Korean city to receive the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights on behalf of HIJOS, said he died in the right place.

Tackling Crime Takes on Import As Urban Populations Rise

By Silvia Giannelli
As people around the world continue to migrate into cities, swelling urban populations, they have sparked growth in another area: crime and security issues.

Q&A: Guantanamo ‘Has No Right to Exist’

By Robert Stefanicki
For more than 100 days, detainees at American detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been on hunger strike, drawing international attention back to the prison that U.S. President Barack Obama vowed during his first presidential campaign to close down.

In India, Rapists Don’t Spare Children

By Sujoy Dhar
When a five-year-old was rescued from the basement of a building in the eastern part of India’s capital, New Delhi, the doctors treating her were horrified to find the little girl had not only been raped by two men several times, but the perpetrators had also inflicted severe perineal injuries by inserting foreign objects into her body.

Brazil Lagging in Fight against Human Trafficking

By Fabiola Ortiz
In contravention of international law, in Brazil trafficking in human beings remains invisible and unpunished, which encourages the practice of trafficking for sexual exploitation, forced labour, illegal adoption and the trade in human organs, according to experts.

When It Comes to Syria, Israel Frequently Redrawing Red Lines

By Pierre Klochendler
Israel is being drawn into Syria's quagmire as it threatens to act further on transfers of "game-changing" weapons to hostile protagonists involved in Syria's civil war, be they Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, Jihadist Sunni rebels, or loyalist forces of President Bashar al Assad.

Videla Dies in Prison – a Victory Against Impunity

By Marcela Valente
Thirty-seven years after leading the coup d’etat that ushered in the most brutal dictatorship in the history of Argentina, former army commander Jorge Rafael Videla died in a common prison Friday.

Civil Society Under Attack Around the World

By Mandeep S.Tiwana
In December 2011, 159 governments and major international organisations recognised the central role of civil society in development and promised to create an “enabling” operating environment for the non-profit sector.

Mexican Communities Sue Pemex for Environmental Justice

By Emilio Godoy
Fed up with oil spills from facilities belonging to Mexico’s state oil company Pemex, residents of two communities in the southeastern state of Tabasco are taking the country’s largest company to court in a bid for compensation for damage to the environment and agriculture.

Against Push for Peace Talks, Outposts Continue Israeli Land Grab

By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Ibrahim Makhlouf reaches for two wooden planks lying in the hallway and places them expertly in an L-shape along the seams of his front door.

At Political Rally, Serbian Church Crosses Sensitive Line

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
The influential Serbian Orthodox Church publicly crossed a line recently when two of its top clergymen took part in a Belgrade rally with messages amounting to direct threats against the lives of government officials.

Q&A: “To Propel Change, You Have to Be in Their Faces”

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
Eighteen days ago, Diane Wilson, a 65-year-old fisherwoman from Texas, decided to go on a hunger strike.

Mexico Reinvents Forced Disappearance

By Diana Cariboni
When people are forcibly disappeared in Mexico, it does not necessarily mean that the victims are immediately killed. In this country of entrenched violence, forced disappearance is also a method used to feed the markets for sexual exploitation and slave labour.

Syrian Attacks on Health Care System ‘Terrorising Population’

By Katelyn Fossett
Humanitarian assistance groups in Washington are warning that the health care system has become a deliberate target in the increasingly brutal civil war in Syria, presenting major challenges to addressing the humanitarian and refugee crises spurred by the conflict.

Pakistan Marks Historic Election

By Zofeen Ebrahim, Irfan Ahmed, and Ashfaq Yusufzai
Flanked by loyalists, friends, journalists and excited family members, former Pakistani premier Mian Nawaz Sharif, head of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), seemed relaxed on the night of the May 11 general elections.
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