Author: Injusticeto Team
On Friday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found El Salvador responsible for obstetric violence in the case of Beatriz, a woman who suffered from lupus and faced a high-risk pregnancy in which the fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, a condition incompatible with extrauterine life.Despite recommendations from El Salvador’s national maternity hospital’s medical committee to terminate the pregnancy, as well as precautionary measures from the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and provisionary measures from the Court, Beatriz was forced to continue the pregnancy. She had an emergency cesarean-section, and the fetus died five hours later.The Court determined that lack of legal certainty and clear…
Maputo, Mozambique — Mozambique is set to swear in its new parliament on Monday, following months of deadly protests over an election in October that the opposition said was rigged. Opposition leader Venancio Mondlane has called on his supporters to hold peaceful protests from Monday to Wednesday, when Daniel Chapo is due to be installed as president. Mondlane said he won the presidential vote and that the results were rigged in favor of Chapo’s Frelimo party, which has been in power for 50 years. Two opposition parties, Renamo and MDM, announced they would boycott Monday’s session, which will swear in…
Image Credit: Imkara Visual on Unsplash The ongoing fires in Los Angeles County constitute a disaster that is as deadly and destructive as it is distinctive: this is an urban wildfire. We may think of wildfires as tearing through thick forests, but the fatal California event that began on January 7th, 2025, is burning in a densely populated, urban area. Fueled by unseasonably powerful winds, multiple fires—including the Palisades Fire west of Los Angeles, the Eaton Fire north of Pasadena, and the Sunset Fire in the Hollywood Hills—are feeding off a very flammable shrub ecosystem, consuming thousands of homes and…
Play Video Los Angeles systematically criminalizes unhoused people through arrests and citations for violations arising out of their unhoused status and by destroying their property through sanitation sweeps.Criminalization drives unhoused people out of public spaces but does nothing to solve their lack of housing.City government should stop its practice of criminalization and destructive sanitation sweeps and instead devote resources to preserving and providing affordable housing for all and services to those in need.(Los Angeles, August 14, 2024) – The Los Angeles city government has pursued a cruel, expensive, and ineffective policy of criminalizing people’s unhoused status through arrests, tickets, and…
Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced plans for major policing reforms yesterday at the National Police Chiefs’ Council and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners’ annual conference. In her speech, the Home Secretary stated that without a ‘major overhaul to increase public confidence, the British tradition of policing by consent will be in peril’. The reform will include a new Police Performance Unit to track national data on local performance and drive up standards, a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee to get policing back to basics and rebuild trust between local forces and the communities they serve and a new National Centre of…