Examining Racial-Profiling Complaints in the Age of Subsidiarity: Basu v Germany and Muhammad v Spain
Image Description: Two policemen in uniform standing with their backs to the camera. On 18 October 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’)’s Third Section passed judgment in Basu...
The ‘Colston Four’ and the Walls of Criminal Trials
Image Description: Statue of Edward Colston at Bristol. This statue was pulled down in 2020 by protestors during a Black Lives Matter march. The acquittals of the ‘Colston four’ have...
The Inter-American Human Rights System on Public Security and Police Violence in Brazil: In Defence of a Rights-Based Approach to Security Policies
Three years after the “Favela Nova Brasília” case, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (‘IACtHR’) is hearing a second police violence case against Brazil, the “Castelinho”. The human rights violations...
Reformists Overtook US Political Discourse On Ending Police Violence And Changed Nothing
Over a year ago, in the midst of the uprisings that followed the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, myself and other activists, organisers and prison industrial complex abolitionists...
Why Punitive Policies and Laws Will Not Solve Violent Crime in Jamaica
“Police kill 7 in Braeton”. “Massacre in Tivoli”. “Police death squads uncovered” These headlines tell the story of state violence, sanctioned as a legitimate tool to fight the rise in...
Addressing Police Brutality in Nigeria – A Crisis of Non-Implementation
For weeks in October 2020, young Nigerians held nationwide protests denouncing years of extra-judicial killings, torture and other ill-treatment by officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the...
First Nations Deaths in Custody and the Politics of Denial
The announcement of an Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1987 promised to be a turning point in First Nations justice. It was a response to widespread...
Using UN Frameworks to Further Racial Justice within Britain
In 2015, the United Nations promulgated an International Decade for people of African descent. The UN explained that “the promotion and protection of human rights of people of African descent...
The Exploitation of Racism and Misogyny by Twitter and the Struggle of Black People in Brazil
A year ago, here in Brazil, a ten-year-old Black girl in the state of Espírito Santo was raped by her uncle and got pregnant. Sadly, this is commonplace in a...
Black Lives Matter: What Next After 2020
Black Lives Matter: What Next After 2020 is a blog series by the Oxford Human Rights Hub which explores how domestic and international law could be used to enhance, support...
Black Lives Matter: What Next After 2020
On 14th October 1973, a Black boy was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA. Soon after his birth, his family moved to Houston, Texas and he was raised in Houston’s...
Rhodes Must Fall (with Rekgotsofetse Chikane)
This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, guest host Simphiwe Laura Stewart talks with Rekgotsofetse Chikane about the...
