Human Rights Watch: Saudi-Led Funeral Attack in Yemen Apparent War Crime
A Saudi Arabia-led coalition airstrike on a crowded funeral ceremony in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on October 8, 2016, is an apparent war crime. The attack killed at least 100 people and wounded more than 500, including children. While military personnel and civilian officials involved in the war effort were attending the ceremony, the clear presence of several hundred civilians strongly suggests that the attack was unlawfully...
Prisons In India: Better Custodial Care Needed For The Marginalized
Author: Saumitra Mohan Prison administration is an alienable part of our justice delivery system which, many feel, calls for urgent relook and attention. The prison administration in India has existed almost unchanged since its inception though a nomenclatural change has been effected in the meanwhile. Our prisons are no longer called ‘jails’ and have been christened as correctional homes today in keeping with the changed ethos. Even...
Two More Journalists Gunned Down in Mexico
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Mexican government to find those who killed newspaper reporter Elidio Ramos Zárate on June 19 in the southern state of Oaxaca and freelance journalist Zamira Esther Bautista on June 20 in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas. Their deaths have brought the number of journalists murdered this year in Mexico to eight, confirming its status as the western hemisphere’s deadliest country for...
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