by Idayat Hassan The Boko Haram insurgency is now in its eighth year. The Nigerian government continues to declare victories over the group, which is now split in two: into the Shekau faction and the Islamic State-aligned Al Barnawi faction. Since 2009, the insurgents have engaged in gross human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, rapes, […]
by Goran Šimić It is strange how people think that criminal law is at its best when the perpetrator is discovered and sent to jail. Unfortunately, every time that happens, criminal law has actually “suffered one more defeat” in the face of what would be the ideal solution: not to have criminal offences, perpetrators, or victims
by Danielle Purifoy On December 12th, the Alabama Black Belt did something that 68% of white Alabamians refused to do—reject the election of a white supremacist sexual abuser to the U.S. Senate. Ninety-six percent of black voters in Alabama supported Democrat Doug Jones, a candidate who did not so much inspire confidence in his political agenda
By Ram Kumar Bhandari “They came at night, way back in June 1999, and took my husband away. I was pregnant at that time. Amit, my only son, is 18 now and often asks where his father is and when he will finally come home. What can I tell the boy? My children have lost
By Pari Ibrahim In 2014, ISIS terrorists entered the city of Sinjar in Iraq, with the well-articulated, written, pre-meditated plan to eradicate the Yezidi people. Yezidis are members of an ethno-religious minority group living in northern Iraq. We practice a unique monotheistic religion that is different from Islam, and our people have been persecuted for
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN CONTEXT Online Symposium, 2017 Truth, reconciliation, accountability, and reparation are generally identified as the core components of transitional justice. When it is not politically or practically feasible to hold perpetrators of human rights violations criminally accountable, is it acceptable to settle for alternative–more limited–forms of accountability for the sake of advancing the
By Josh Pemberton[1] In 2015, a three year-old Syrian refugee named Alan Kurdi drowned after the boat carrying him and his family from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos sank. Turkish photographer Nilüfer Demir’s images of Alan’s lifeless body, lying facedown on the Turkish beach, were widely published, and generated public shock and
By Anjali Manivannan[1] Click here to access a PDF version of this article The current Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa has infected 27,237 people—almost exclusively in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—of whom 11,158 died.[2] This public health emergency has significantly impacted the right to health and the right to freedom of expression in
By Hannah Brennan & Burcu Kilic [1] Click here to access a PDF Version of this article I. Introduction On October 16, 2014, a new draft of the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was leaked.[2] The TPP is a free trade agreement currently being negotiated in secret between the governments of Australia, Brunei
