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GLOBAL legal watchdogs, the International Bar Associations Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L), have urged the government of Zimbabwe...

The groups say their petition highlights concerns about the integrity of the Nigerian judiciary, specifically focusing on a series of incidents of judicial capture in Nigeria.

A Colombian indigenous journalist filmed the moment he was fatally shot; we used his footage and other evidence to investigate what happened.

The US State Department said dialogue is crucial for free and fair elections in Bangladesh and that it is closely monitoring the electoral environment.

Human Rights Watch has called upon Bangladesh’s international partners to insist that elections cannot be considered fair when the opposition is targeted, harassed, and behind bars.

(Johannesburg, October 28, 2023) – Mozambican security forces have used excessive force, including live ammunition, rubber bullets, and tear gas, against

Mozambican security forces have used excessive force, including live ammunition, rubber bullets, and tear gas, against largely peaceful protesters following local elections.

Poland must return to a full respect for the rule of law to strengthen its own security and that of the European Union.

The audacious appointment of the Chief Justice of Nigeria's own son to a Federal High Court judgeship strikes at the heart of judicial integrity, severely eroding our faith in the bedrock of our legal system. This egregious abuse of power is not an isolated incident but rather a symptom of a widespread disease infecting our legal institutions, corroding the very essence of fairness and impartiality.

Yet this has become the rule not the exception. The result is that Nigeria’s judiciary now suffers a terminal credibility deficit that endangers civilized dispute resolution to the point of making vigilantism highly profitable. The Council of Foreign Relations validates this causality between “public mistrust of the police and the judicial system” on the one hand and what it calls Nigeria’s “epidemic of lawlessness” on the other.