Full Coverage: Justice and crime

27.11.2007 Tribal women across the world, often seen as backward and primitive, suffer violence and sexual exploitation at the hands of outsiders who invade their land. As most cases go unreported, such acts of hostility remain hidden from the public gaze.

22.11.2007 The verdict in the case of Ethiopian anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and
Netsanet Demissie, which was expected today, has been postponed again because a judge is in hospital.

15.11.2007 Forced to flee from their homes, the villagers of Nandigram now only want to be left in peace. The recent upsurge of political violence in this East Midnapore area in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal uprooted thousands now living in relief camps.

14.11.2007 It was a shattering day for 485 victims of enforced disappearance and their families in Pakistan. The Supreme Court, in a state of disarray after the proclamation of emergency and dismissal of its Chief Justice, failed to hear the case, which was scheduled for November 13.

07.11.2007 Hundreds of people disappeared when Nepali forces were given extra-judicial powers during the armed conflict with Maoist rebels. Human rights groups are now supporting the families who want the cases of their missing relatives to be resolved.

02.11.2007 Recent lynching of ten members of a denotified tribe in Bihar is a gruesome reminder of the societal prejudices that run deep. Even after sixty years of independence, millions of people in India continue to be treated as criminals, feels Kannan Kasturi, an independent researcher and writer on issues related to law, policy and governance.