‘White Backlash’ Against Affirmative Action in the United States and South African Courts
Image description: Demonstration in support of affirmative action outside the United States Supreme Court.
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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 ...
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 ...
Proposed Voter ID Reforms in the UK: The Dangers of ‘Fraud’ Based Regulation
The UK government’s Election Bill containing controversial Voter ID provisions is progressing with haste through ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Proving Discrimination in the Counter-Terrorism Context in Europe
Twenty years after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US, the War on Terror has fundamentally reshaped ...
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