The Use of Restraints against Prisoners Receiving Medical Treatment: The PPO Report into the Death of Peter Sutcliffe
Image description: several handcuffs hanging from a rod in prison.
The report by the Prisons and Probation ...
Criminal Justice and Fair Trial
Corroboration as Sex Discrimination: The Equality Implications of Sexual Offence Cases in Malawi
Image description: Graffiti on the wall of three women with red blindfolds over their eyes.
In Kaliyati v R ...
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 ...
Justice behind closed doors? Extrajudicial killings, Closed Material Proceedings, and Investigatory Obligations under the ECHR
The on-going case R (Saifullah) v Secretary of State for Defence is a judicial review case concerning the Ministry ...
Indian Supreme Court on Gender Sensitisation of Judges: Aparna Bhat & Ors v State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr
To achieve gender justice, it is critical that the judiciary avoid stereotypes and social biases to strengthen a ...
The Struggle to Establish Human Rights Courts in India: An Unfulfilled Promise
A petition was filed by Bhavika Phore on July 8, 2019, in the Supreme Court of India seeking to solidify human ...
The Colonial and Casteist Undertones of Policing in Madhya Pradesh, India
The Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project studied two sets of data to examine the criminal justice ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
The Green Tide Floods the Mexican Supreme Court
The Mexican Supreme Court made history this month. In a landmark ruling, it established that absolute abortion ...
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