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Speakers at a roundtable discussion on sentencing in the country’s Criminal Justice System have called on judges to prioritise the option of non-custodial sentencing that exist under the 1992 Constitution rather than giving custodial sentences to convicts especially, petty offenders.

+ The National Security secretariat says mistrust in the Electoral Commission (EC) is arming political parties’ vigilante groups for violence that threatens the state’s security. The secretariat’s strategic security policy demands the EC to investigate the source of the public mistrust and urgently address them.  The opposition National Democratic Congress has not hidden its dislike for and mistrust in the current leadership of the Jean Mensah led Electoral Commission. Indeed the out...

+ The National Security secretariat says mistrust in the Electoral Commission (EC) is arming political parties’ vigilante groups for violence that threatens the state’s security. The secretariat’s strategic security policy demands the EC to investigate the source of the public mistrust and urgently address them.  The opposition National Democratic Congress has not hidden its dislike for and mistrust in the current leadership of the Jean Mensah led Electoral Commission. Indeed the out...

Chambas Endorses ‘Pretty Tough’ Measures Against Galamsey

The destruction caused by mining activities in water bodies and forest reserves is bad enough to require “pretty tough” measures to contain the situation, a former Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has said.

Macau has banned a vigil marking China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown for the second year in a row, with authorities this time saying the event would "incite subversion", in the latest sign of withering political freedoms there.

Photo: UN Women/Susan Markisz Ms. Åsa Regnér is the Assistant Secretary-General and a Deputy Executive Director of UN Women since May 2019. Ms. Regnér served since 2014 as Minister for Children, the Elderly and Gender Equality of Sweden, where her focus was on concrete results in the implementation of Swedish gender equality policies as well as a shift towards prevention of violence against women and the involvement of men and boys in gender equality work.  She has extensive experience in t...

, there are 634,100 Internet users in Fiji as of January 2021, which is approximately 70.5 per cent of the entire population. The number of people that can be reached with adverts on Facebook is 570,000⁠—according to Facebook. By comparison, approximately 140,000 people can be reached with adverts on Instagram and 14,800 on Twitter. The 2019 – 2020 Overview of complaints received by the Online Safety Commission of Fiji stated that Facebook and Messenger were the platforms individuals repo...

Punch Newspapers Sections Bolanle Akinwunmi Published 17 May 2021 No doubt, Nigerian women, if given the opportunity in any field of human endeavors, always proved to be excellent achievers. With hard work and diligence, Nigerian women have come of age, marching side by side their male counterparts. It is on record that the few women given the chance to lead have not disappointed. It was based on this supportive role that women have cultivated to encourage one another that the coalition of pro...

Thoroughly probe assault on Caleb Kudah, other journalists – CDD to CHRAJ LISTEN 4 HOURS AGO The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), has called on the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to thoroughly investigate the assault on Citi News’ reporter, Caleb Kudah by some National Security operatives. “The Centre calls on the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to thoroughly investigate this and many other incidents of as...