human-rights

Senior lawyers call on prime minister to request Indian prosecutors drop charges that would breach double jeopardy rule Four senior lawyers, including the former attorney general Dominic Grieve, have written to Keir Starmer urging him to request that Indian prosecutors drop charges against the British national Jagtar Singh Johal on the basis that continued prosecution would be in manifest breach …

Rehabilitation of young offenders is vital. But victims should not leave court wondering why they bothered The decision to review the sentences of two teenage boys convicted of raping two girls, aged 15 and 14, in separate incidents in November 2024 and January 2025, and a third boy who took part in the second rape, is correct. A knife was used to threaten the second victim, and the attacks were …

The Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center (RFK Human Rights) has officially opened applications for its highly competitive Project-Based Legal Fellowship for 2027. This prestigious fellowship provides rising third-year law students, judicial law clerks, and recent law graduates with an opportunity to develop and lead impactful human rights projects in partnership with one of […] The post Rob…

I survived months of bombardment before escaping. The systematic dismantling of our home has harmed every aspect of women’s lives Olfat al-Kurd is a field researcher for B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the occupied territories Since Israel’s assault on Gaza began in October 2023, I have lost my father, my brother, his wife and their daughter. They are still buried und…

Bonolo Selelo and Tsholofelo Kumile are going to court for right to wed but face fierce opposition from church groups Bonolo Selelo was at Botswana’s national museum for a Gaborone Pride event when she spotted Tsholofelo Kumile and was struck by her good looks. The two initiated a conversation and when Kumile expressed anxiety about what a tarot reading at the event might hold, Selelo thought not…

This article examines Spatial Economics and Regional Development in East Africa: A Critical Examination with a focused emphasis on Republic of Congo within the field of African Studies. It is structured as a qualitative study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical implications in a concise publication-ready format. The paper foregrounds the most re…

Boys, aged 15, given youth rehabilitation orders for two separate attacks against two girls in Hampshire A judge’s decision not to jail two teenage boys who raped two girls has been described by one of the victims as a “rock straight in my face”. A trial at Southampton crown court heard the girls were raped in two separate attacks in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, the first attack on 26 November 2024 …

Renu Beniwal, Lecturer at Silver Oak University ABSTRACT The researcher has tried to shed light on the involvement of human rights in the maritime sector, which contributes to 90% of the global trade, enlightening the rights of seafarers on board vessels. Maritime law and the legislation passed by states both comprise the laws governing seafarers and safeguarding their rights. A seafarer is defin…

Counsel Collins Nkumbwa, Esq., CIP (NIPA), LLB (UNZA), LLM (UNZA), AHCZ, ASCZ, PhD Cand. Advocate, Lecturer of Law and Commissioner of Oaths ABSTRACT This paper discusses the concept of non-bailable offences with special focus on sexual offences in Zambia. The sexual offences in Zambia include rape, attempted rape, indecent assaults on females, indecently insulting females, defilement of girls un…

Akruti Chauhan, Research Scholar, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Uttarakhand Ashutosh Mishra, Assistant Prof., Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Uttarakhand ABSTRACT The fast growth of digital tools and internet access has turned the online world into a key avenue to communicate, govern trade, learn, and take part in democracy. Today, in modern constitutional democracie…

Naman Bhatele, Amity University Madhya Pradesh ABSTRACT Child domestic workers occupy one of the most precarious and legally invisible positions in India's labour ecosystem. Engaged in cooking, cleaning, childcare, and other household tasks within private homes, these children predominantly girls between the ages of 5 and 14 remain shielded from public scrutiny by the very walls that enclose them…

Mrs. Raunak Gupta & Ms. Prerna Singh ABSTRACT In the digital world of the globalised world, personal information is now both an asset and a liability in the digital world. As one of the largest digital societies across the globe, India faces certain challenges that are unique to finding the balance between the promotion of technology and the preservation of basic rights. This paper focuses on…

This study explored the views of police officers regarding Police Omnipresence Programs and Practices in Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines. Anchored on the Routine Activity Theory of Cohen & Felson (1979), supported by the Broken Windows Theory of Wilson & Kelling (1982) and the Deterrence Theory of Becker (1968), the study examined police officers’ experiences, perceived impacts, challenges, …

ABSTRACT Archipelagic regions face public communication challenges influenced by fragmented geographical conditions, limited connectivity, and unequal access to public information. These conditions have caused public services and the distribution of governmental information in villages on Ambon Island to remain less than optimal, potentially creating communication gaps between the village governm…

This working paper argues that conventional globalization has created not only economic benefits but also security vulnerabilities, including technology leakage, intellectual property theft, cyber intrusion, economic coercion, and foreign influence operations. The paper examines China’s technology development model not merely as a matter of independent innovation, but as a combination of external…

The provision of legal aid by advocates has not yet been fully regarded as part of social contribution and social responsibility. The obligation of advocates to provide pro bono legal aid is closely connected to the concept of the rule of law and the law enforcement system that reflects the legal ideals or rechtsidee, namely legal certainty (rechtsicherheit), justice (gerechtigkeit), and utility …

This study is motivated by the suboptimal use of public aspirations in decision-making processes within the Regional House of Representatives (DPRD), particularly in relation to weak management, documentation, follow-up mechanisms, and alignment with regional development priorities. This study aims to analyze the collection of public aspirations, their institutional processing within the DPRD, an…

This project examines the limits of predictive legal output in public-law decision-making. It asks whether AI-assisted legal systems can do more than retrieve authorities, summarize doctrine, predict outcomes, or generate plausible legal reasons. The central concern is that legal validity cannot be reduced to output production, because public law depends on institutional processes through which d…

International cooperation in criminal matters inevitably presupposes either occasional or systematic interaction between the law enforcement authorities of different States engaged in combating crime. The Republic of Uzbekistan conducts such cooperation with foreign States on the basis of mutual compliance with international treaty obligations. Within this framework, Uzbekistan acts as an equal,

Abstract The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a long-standing territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, has produced severe humanitarian and legal challenges. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has played a crucial role in addressing some of these challenges. The paper examines the Court’s evolving jurisprudence on the conflict, focusing on landmark judgments, such as Chiragov v. A…