LOUD WHISPERS: Mohbad – We Heard But Did Not Listen
In 1991, the film The Five Heartbeats, directed by Robert Townsend was released. I enjoyed the film so much I cannot count the number of times I have watched it over the years. It is a story set in the 1960s USA about how five poor black teenagers found (and lost, then found again) fame […]
A Road Paved With Thorns – Access To Justice For Women In Conflict Areas In Darfur
International organizations have consistently reported grave human rights violations committed since the outbreak of conflict in Darfur inT 2003. Five years on, according to the UN, at least 300,000 people had been killed and 2.5 million had been displaced. Since then, the people of Darfur have continued to suffer extrajudicial executions, unlawful killings of civilians, […]
UK Justice Rapped For Failing Women Who Kill Abusive Men
Women who kill their male abusers are often failed by a British justice system that can treat them as cold-blooded murderers rather than seeing them as victims too, campaigners said on Wednesday. Changes to criminal and legal systems are needed to ensure fairness for women who frequently serve long prison sentences for killing violent or […]
A Decade After U.N.-Linked Cholera Outbreak, Haitians Demand Justice
In the middle of a coronavirus pandemic, it is another, more deadly disease that keeps 20-year-old Haitian Loubean Jean up at night – cholera. Jean was about to celebrate his 11th birthday in 2011 when his father was struck with cholera and died aged 49, leaving five children behind. Jean’s mother, who was also sickened […]
Netherlands Wants To Punish Silence On Sex Abuse In Closed Communities
The Dutch government wants to prosecute members of private groups and communities who fail to report sexual abuse in their organisations, a move that comes after Jehovah’s Witnesses rejected demands to tackle the under-reporting of abuse. A 2019 report commissioned by the government to investigate sexual abuse involving Jehovah’s Witnesses found few cases were being […]
UN Calls For Independent, Impartial Investigation Into Cameroon Massacre
The U.N. human rights office is calling for an independent, impartial and thorough investigation into the massacre of 23 people in a village in Cameroon’s Northwest Anglophone region on February 14. More information has emerged since this shocking attack occurred. U.N. human rights monitors on the ground report 15 children, nine under the age of […]
Seven Soldiers On Trial For Murder Of Women And Children Recorded In ‘Horrifying’ Viral Video
Seven soldiers are set to go on trial tomorrow (27 August) for the brutal murder of two women and two children. A video of the killings, which went viral in early July 2018, was initially dismissed by the Cameroonian authorities as “fake news”. Amnesty research, however, revealed credible evidence that the Cameroon military was responsible, […]
Chinese ‘Jack The Ripper’ Executed For Murdering 11 Girls And Women
A Chinese serial killer dubbed the country’s ‘Jack the Ripper’ has been executed for the murder of 11 girls and women. Gao Chengyong was found guilty of multiple counts of murder, rape, robbery and the mutilation of corpses between 1988 and 2002. Many of his victims had their hands, ears and genitals cut off. He […]
World’s Worst Case For Women’s Rights – Death Sentence For Raped Teen In Sudan
The death sentence for a 19-year-old girl in Sudan who murdered her husband after he tried to rape her was named on Tuesday as the world’s worst court ruling for women’s rights this year. Noura Hussein was sentenced to death in May after a Sharia court, which follows Islamic religious laws, found her guilty of […]
Police Arrests Quack Doctor Who Sedates And Rapes Patients In Kenya
Quack doctor Mugo wa Wairimu will spend Tuesday night at the Pangani Police Station after he was arrested in Gachie, Kiambu County. Mugo has been on the run for two weeks after a Nation Television investigative story revealed he had resumed sedating female patients and sexually assaulting them. “He is in custody. He will be […]
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