Full Coverage: Justice and crime

28.10.2006 Guy Delva has worked as a journalist for over 20 years in his native Haiti, for numerous radio stations, Le Nouvelliste newspaper, and as a correspondent for the Caribbean News Agency and the BBC World Service. He heads the Haitian Journalists’ Association and is a dedicated defender and promoter of journalists’ rights.

27.10.2006 RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct 27 (IPS) - Sitting on a red plastic stool behind the iron bars that form a caged courtyard outside Cell 74, Mirza Tahir Hussain, though only 36, looks like an old man. His white untrimmed beard, the long salt-and-pepper hair and a slight shuffle in his gait expose a life of constant worry.

27.10.2006 Even as Imrana receives justice from the court after being raped by her father-in-law in an Uttar Pradesh village, another woman in Bihar awaits the court's verdict.

27.10.2006 More than a year after Imrana, a Muslim woman from a western UP village, defied clerics and village elders and complained that she had been raped by her father-in-law, a Muzaffarnagar district court today sentenced the accused, Ali Mohammed, to ten years in prison, holding him guilty of rape and criminal intimidation.

26.10.2006 The much-awaited law against domestic violence comes into force on October 26, 2006. Touted as a “landmark” pro-women legislation, the Protection of Women Against Domestic Violence Act, 2005 seeks to address issues linked to status of women within their homes that often gets pushed under the carpet.

26.10.2006 Several major national Albanian children rights organisations promoted, on October 24, 2006, the establishment of a new Coalition against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children in Albania. The Coalition which will be known under the acronym ACTSEC has been accepted as an associate group of ECPAT International.

24.10.2006 Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske i Ured OSCE-a za demokratske ustanove i ljudska prava u ponedjeljak 23. 10. su potpisali Memorandum o razumijevanju kojim se Hrvatska obvezala uvesti obuku o zločinu iz mržnje u sklopu postojećeg državnog nastavnog programa za obuku policijskih službenika.

24.10.2006 La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) aprobó una nueva sentencia contra el Estado de Honduras en el caso Servellón García. El Estado fue condenado por violar los derechos a la vida, a la integridad y a la libertad personal

21.10.2006 La aplicación del derecho consuetudinario en comunidades mayas del noroccidental departamento de Sololá ha caldeado el debate sobre la justicia indígena, los derechos humanos y el sistema judicial oficial.

21.10.2006 October 2 marked another anniversary of the 1968 massacre in Tlatelolco Square, a former prehispanic marketplace in Mexico City. Students and others were gunned down by soldiers and government agents

21.10.2006 The application of Mayan law in indigenous communities in the northwestern department of Solola, has led to a heated debate on customary law — or usos y costumbres — meaning the institutions and practices of indigenous people, human rights and the official judicial system

17.10.2006 Brasil, México y Perú lideran el ranking de los países latinoamericanos donde los gays son muertos con violencia, según denuncia de la Asociación Internacional de Gays y Lesbianas (IGLA).

16.10.2006 Transparentnost Makedonija veke nema pravo da se pretstavuva kako del od mrezata na megjunarodnata organizacija za borba protiv korupcijata Transparentnost internacional (TI). Taka odlucila centralata na organizacijata vo Berlin, otkako ne bil ispocituvan dogovorot za smiruvanje na sostojbite vo organizacijata vo Makedonija.

13.10.2006 Argentines are searching for a missing 77-year-old witness whose gripping testimony of torture helped convict a former police officer of crimes committed during Argentina's military dictatorship.

13.10.2006 Provoked by the fact that, 15 years after the start of wars in former Yugoslavia, no information has been presented on war crimes committed in the name of Serbia, Women in Black started the Women Ask action, to ask the authorities to bring the information on those crimes to the light of the day.

12.10.2006 The corruption in Serbia has returned to its pre-October 5, 2000 levels, states the Council for Fight against Corruption in its letter to Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica.

11.10.2006 El dirigente campesino Jorge Ruiz Rosales, quien fuera detenido por cinco agentes de la Dirección General de Investigación Criminal, cumplió cuatro meses de estar desaparecido.

10.10.2006 Migliaia di persone, in ogni parte del mondo, celebrano oggi martedì 10 ottobre la IV Giornata mondiale contro la pena di morte, auspicando un mondo senza esecuzioni. Il tema della Giornata di quest’anno, organizzata dalla Coalizione mondiale contro la pena di morte, è quello del fallimento della giustizia rappresentato dalle esecuzioni. Secondo Amnesty International, i paesi che ancora ricorrono alla pena di morte lo fanno in un modo che è clamorosamente contrario alle norme e agli standard internazionali. Amnesty International e la Coalizione mondiale contro la pena di morte vogliono richiamare l’attenzione sulle mancanze del sistema giudiziario in Arabia Saudita, Cina, Iran, Nigeria e Usa, paesi che non rispettano gli standard previsti da numerosi trattati internazionali.

10.10.2006 ROME, Oct 10 (IPS) - In the 13 years since its birth in Italy, the global campaign to abolish the death penalty has convinced more than half the countries in the world of its cause.

07.10.2006 La Asociación para la Justicia y Reconciliación (AJR) presentó al Ministerio Público la solicitud de primera declaración del general Efraín Ríos Montt, sindicado de genocidio y además, pidió al MP hacer el trámite correspondiente en el Organismo Judicial.