Author: Injusticeto Team
Tessa Moura LacerdaTessa Moura Lacerda is a philosophy professor at the University of São Paulo”Have we really done it?” Tessa Moura Lacerda asked her mother, in disbelief, as they stood outside a government office on a rainy August morning in 2019.In their hands, a document they fought for years to hold – her father’s death certificate, now correctly stating his cause of death.It read: “unnatural, violent death caused by the State to a missing person […] in the dictatorial regime established in 1964”.Tessa’s father, Gildo Macedo Lacerda, died under torture in 1973 at just 24, during the most brutal years…
The police inspectorate recently published its report on progress in delivering a new model for investigating rape and serious sexual offences, known as Operation Soteria. In 2021, 19 early adopter forces began implementing Soteria in place via the National Operating Model. In May 2023, the then Home Secretary commissioned His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services to carry out an inspection using the powers under section 54(2B) of the Police Act 1996. The report outlines progress from 9 early adopter forces to evaluate the progress of Operation Soteria. Described as a “game-changer” by police personnel, the programme is supposed to improve how…
Aditya Dalal traces the legislative evolution of the 2024 amendment to the Law on Combatting Prostitution in Iraq, particularly highlighting its draconian provisions on criminalising same-sex sexual relationships, promoting or facilitating same-sex relationships, gender affirmation procedures, and cross-dressing. He criticises this amendment for violating the Constitution of Iraq, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Arab Charter on Human Rights. On 27 April 2024, the Iraqi parliament passed an amendment to Legislation No.8 of 1988, titled the Law on Combatting Prostitution. Under this amendment, which not only imposes unreasonable restrictions on…
(Beirut) – The transitional Syrian authorities should urgently take steps to secure and preserve evidence of atrocities committed under the government of former President Bashar al-Assad, including key government and intelligence documents as well as the sites of atrocities and mass graves, the Association of Detainees and the Missing in Sednaya Prison (ADMSP), Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.Transitional authorities should urgently coordinate and cooperate with relevant United Nations bodies, Syrian civil society, and international forensic teams to secure, preserve and protect this evidence. Evidence of crimes left behind will be essential to establish the fate and whereabouts…
Ukraine became a full-fledged member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on January 1 – a key development for accountability and human rights in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. This significant step for global justice was the culmination of years of dedicated advocacy by Ukrainian and international nongovernmental groups.Paving the way for Ukraine to join the court, in August, the country adopted a law providing for ratification of the Rome Statue, the court’s founding treaty.To achieve justice for international crimes in the country’s 11-year war, authorities need to align Ukraine’s legislation with international law, so that serious crimes…
On January 9, 2025, the People’s Court of Hanoi is scheduled to hear the case of high-profile lawyer Tran Dinh Trien, who was arrested on June 1, 2024, and charged with “infringing upon the interests of the state” under Article 331 of Vietnam’s penal code. If convicted, Tran faces up to seven years in prison. According to the indictment, between April 23 and May 9, 2024, Tran published three posts on Facebook criticizing actions by then Chief Justice Nguyen Hoa Binh of the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam. The court issued a statement that these posts “had untruthful and fabricated…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Additional water tankers and scores of firefighters have arrived at the Los Angeles area ahead of fierce winds that were forecast to return and threaten the progress made so far on two massive infernos that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people.On Monday, planes doused homes and hillsides with bright pink fire-retardant chemicals, while crews and fire engines were being placed near particularly vulnerable spots with dry brush. Dozens of water trucks rolled in to replenish supplies after hydrants ran dry last week when the two largest fires erupted. Tabitha Trosen and…
Less than three weeks after a December 25 military airstrike in Sokoto state reportedly killed 10 villagers, an airstrike in Zamfara state has resulted in more accidental deaths. The victims, who the military wrongly identified as bandits, were members of a local vigilante group and farmers in the vicinity of Tungar Kara village, Zurmi Local Government Area.Similar airstrikes have killed hundreds of people in Nigeria. They have been carried out during operations against bandit gangs that emerged from years of conflict between farming and herding communities in Nigeria’s northwest. The military has called the killings of ordinary people accidental, but…
This week, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal data of its child users in Brazil to train its artificial intelligence (AI).The data regulator also banned X from sharing children’s personal data with third parties to train generative AI and ordered the company to amend its privacy policy to reflect these changes.X, owned by Elon Musk, has five business days to comply with the decision, which was issued December 16. It has 10 business days to make further changes to its privacy policy that would disallow the company from collecting and…
Lawmakers in El Salvador recently voted to reintroduce industrial mining in the country, ending a 2017 landmark ban that has protected freshwater and public health.President Nayib Bukele has advocated for the return of mining despite the unpopularity of the industry in El Salvador, arguing that it will bring in billions of dollars and create thousands of jobs.The government will have at least 51% control over every mining project while also being in charge of oversight, causing concern from environmentalists that it will be hard to challenge projects that aren’t being carried out responsibly.See All Key Ideas Lawmakers in…