
Kenya has experienced an upsurge in cases of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings over the last five ...

The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) recently handed down its long-awaited admissibility decision in Ahmed ...

The failure of Nigerian criminal justice institutions and agencies to prevent mob justice or punish those who ...

A landmark case for international law is currently before the International Criminal Court (ICC), where the ...

In KRJ, the Supreme Court of Canada tackled the retrospective application of criminal sanctions on certain sexual ...

On August 3, 2016, the government of Canada announced a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous ...

On 3 February 2016, the Criminal Division of the Court of First Instance of Ghent in Belgium found a 33-year old ...

In November 2015, a decade after the sexual assault and murder of a young Guatemalan woman, the Inter-American ...

This post examines a petition made to the Indian Supreme Court by a rape victim’s mother. The petitioner avers ...

On 3 February 2016, the State of Georgia executed a 72 year old man - Brandon Astor – by lethal injection. Astor ...

The recently published 2015 Global Burden of Armed Violence (GBAV) report by the Small Arms Survey has continued ...

The Human Rights and Democracy Report (2015) recently released by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office ...