Full Coverage: Justice and crime

31.12.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 31 (OneWorld) - Benazir Bhutto's supporters are wondering if the UN Security Council is helping cover up a conspiracy behind her killing.

28.12.2007 Aasian ihmisoikeuskomission mukaan Benazir Bhutton murha paljastaa Pakistanin syvät ongelmat: repression, ihmisoikeuksien puutteen ja olemattoman oikeusvaltion.

27.12.2007 The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a suicide attack. The suicide bomber struck shortly after she addressed a political rally in Rawalpindi, killing at least 20 other people.

21.12.2007 Last Friday, Margaret Wanjiru -- a parliamentary candidate in Kenya's Dec. 27 general elections -- was reportedly attacked while campaigning in her Starehe constituency in the capital, Nairobi. While she escaped injury, her supporters are said to have been hurt and her campaign van extensively damaged by stoning…Still, those targeted in this incident were probably luckier than Martha Kibwana.

20.12.2007 The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in South Asia has teamed up with Indian film producers to sensitize movie-goers to the crime of human trafficking. A two-minute spot ‘One Life, No Price’ will be shown ahead of ‘Welcome’, a comedy expected to hit the theatres on December 21.

20.12.2007 As UN member states voted overwhelmingly for a moratorium on the death penalty, an influential rights watchdog has challenged Nigeria's claim that no one has been executed in its prisons for several years.

19.12.2007 YK:n yleiskokous teki tiistaina historiallisen päätöksen, kun se hyväksyi päätöslauselman kuolemanrangaistuksen kieltämiseksi. Päätös ei kuitenkaan sido jäsenmaita.

19.12.2007 On December 18, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic non-binding resolution in support of a moratorium on death penalty. It is for the first time that the UN has acknowledged capital punishment as a human rights issue.

12.12.2007 A number of developments across South Asia serve to highlight the disturbing trend of increasingly militarised control and policing of human activity, and the stamping out of human rights in the guise of counter-terrorism measures, says a report, titled: Stamping Out Rights: The Impact of Anti-Terrorism Laws on Policing.

07.12.2007 Women Power Connect president Ranjana Kumari laments that political leadership in India has not taken seriously the recent incidents of violence against women in places like Nandigram and Guwahati. She has suggested a national commission to provide protection to women in conflict situations.