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GENEVA (19 June 2018) – UN human rights experts* are making an urgent appeal to the authorities in Iran to halt the execution of Mohammad Kalhori, a young man who was sentenced to death at 15 years old for… Continue Reading →
Written by Mustafa Haji | U The child abuse law as it stands has multiple problems, mostly stemming from its focus on the abuser (Representational Image)In April, India made world news with the introduction of the death penalty for child rapists. It is… Continue Reading →
This case is an example death penalty will never be a deterrent for Rape. The death penalty in fact further endangers the life of the survivor as the severity of the punishment then becomes an incentive to end the survivors life.The… Continue Reading →
A 19 year old Sudanese girl, Noura Hussein, was forcefully married to a man at 16, ran away to her aunt’s for 3 years and was tricked by her dad to going back to him. Refusing to consummate their marriage,… Continue Reading →
KHUSHBOO JAIN Instead of provisions for death penalty, it is restorative justice that needs to be built into the existing laws and implemented through a sensitised justice delivery system. Bhai roz galat kaam karta tha. Mummy ko bhi bataya. Mummy… Continue Reading →
Mumbai: About 90% of child rape cases were pending trial in India in 2016, no more than 28% of such cases ended in conviction, and there is a 20-year backlog in bringing cases to trial, the latest available national crime data show. These… Continue Reading →
AIDWA thinks that the present ordinance of the Cabinet introducing death penalty for rape of children below 12 years is not going to prevent such crimes and is merely a ploy to cover up the total failure of the government… Continue Reading →
The attitude towards women needs to change Aakar Patel How should we as a society react to events that have happened in Kathua and in Unnao? India has become notorious around the world as a place where women and children are… Continue Reading →
The Saudi Arabian government is employing the death penalty as a political weapon to silence dissent, said Amnesty International, following the execution of four Shi’a men in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province on 11 July. These brutal executions are the… Continue Reading →
The Quality Of Mercy Pranab Mukherjee’s troubling record on clemency for death-row convicts By AMARTYA KANJILAL | SAMIA SINGH FOR THE CARAVAN On the first day of this year, President Pranab Mukherjee accepted the mercy petitions of four death-row convicts found guilty… Continue Reading →