Since early April 2022, a new wave of protests have emerged to combat increasing economic instability as well as fuel shortages and consistent power cuts.
Read More »Unfit For Trial – The Hyper-Complexity In Executing Intellectually Disabled Inmates For Drug-Related Offences in Singapore
Despite guidance, the Singaporean government failed to accede to several international and domestic provisions that place significant restrictions on the ability to execute disabled people.
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If the conflict is to continue in a legal manner, all parties to the conflict must understand the indiscriminate use of rocket/artillery to clear large areas will only result in more innocent lives being lost.
Read More »Mercenary Work – New Relationship Between Suspected Russian ‘Wagner Group’ and Mali Armed Forces Leaves 300 Dead
On 1 April 2022, the Malian government proudly announced their successes during a recent operation in Moura that left an estimated 300 ‘militants’ dead. Between 23 and 31 March, the Malian army and suspected Russian mercenary counterparts, Wagner Group (WG), summarily executed these estimated 300 men.
Read More »Still Missing: The Scale Of Syrian Enforced Disappearances & Its Perpetrators
All domestic parties to the conflict have consistently targeted their political dissenters as well as wartime rivals with enforced disappearances.
Read More »‘Please, we’re dying’: A Legal Analysis of Horrific Detention Centre Conditions in Contemporary Libya
The combination of Libya's penal sanctions alongside neglectful treatment of asylum seekers is nothing short of inhumane, let alone lawful.
Read More »South Sudan: New UN Report on Sexual Violence Raises Crimes Against Humanity Concerns
Armed groups in South Sudan have systematically targeted women with malicious sexual intent as well as continued this in the form of prolonged slavery and forced pregnancies.
Read More »We Come In Peace: New UN Report Substantiates Breaches of Fundamental Rights During Peaceful Protests in Belarus
With all evidence considered, the actions of the Belarusian security forces amount to a denial of not only the rights to freedom of association and assembly but also freedom from torture, free speech, the right to due process and effective remedies and demonstrates failures of the national accountability mechanisms.
Read More »Case closed – The Lack of Independent Investigations into Civilian Atrocities in Mali
While the Mali government have launched some investigations into atrocity allegations regarding Islamist groups, investigations into the Mali military have not been commenced.
Read More »Dyson accused of allowing forced labour through Malaysian manufacturer ATA IMS
Allegations from migrant workers hailing from Bangladesh and Nepal have been made against Dyson concerning poor labour standards at a division of ATA IMS, known as ATA Industrial.
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