Justice for sexual crimes in wartime still remains elusive for many survivors, but it's never too late. From States of Impunity.
Civil society tribunals, though unofficial, provide new spaces that fundamentally contest the state and its hold over justice. From States of Impunity.
What is it about the police and urban black populations in the US and the UK? The explanation starts with two of the most stretched social hierarchies in the developed world.
Investigations and reports into allegations of widespread human-rights violations at G4S-run Mangaung prison have stalled. Can anyone wrangle the private security behemoth?
openSecurity's new series explores how the violence of state crimes endures. How and when does the fight against impunity open up an arena for action and change?
The overwhelming majority of the victims of enforced disappearances are men. What happens to the women left behind?
The sister of a US-Egyptian activist on hunger strike in a Cairo jail, whose cause has been taken up by Amnesty International, issues a cri de coeur on the eve of a critical court appearance.
The massacre at a university in Kenya should lead the government to a recognition that repressive and discriminatory reactions, however tempting, have only fuelled such horrific violence.
Next week sees elections in Sudan. But there’s one thing wrong—we already know the outcome.
Six ways Palestinians can change the rules of the game after Netayanhu's comments during the election made a just and equal peace even more elusive.
The western intervention in Libya in 2011 failed to recognise the complex warp and weft of its pre-democratic tribal fabric. Only a regionally facilitated dialogue can repair the shattered state left behind.
Will Colombia force its military to face up to its past human rights abuses?
