Welcome to the Justice and Public Security Pages
Justice and Public Security is a thematic research area within the Centre for Security Sector Management. These pages aim to bring you a wide range of open source publications, papers and events within this arena. For more information on the research and projects undertaken by the CSSM, please contact: h.pearce@cranfield.ac.uk
Pakistan: The world needs Pakistan to be a strong defender of human rights, An Interview with Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, The Dawn
In our view, it is not possible to speak of the rule of law if a precedent has been set in which the executive is able to dismiss judges. That is the government controlling the law rather than subjecting itself to the law. That precedent needs to be reversed with the complet more>>>
Turkmenistan: Free Dissident Arrested on Return Home, HRW
Turkmen authorities should immediately release Gulgeldy Annaniazov, a dissident arrested upon his return home from exile abroad, Human Rights Watch said today. Annaniazov was arrested on June 24, 2008, as officials from Turkmenistan and the European Union met in the capital, more>>>
Nepal: Fulfill Obligations for Protection of the Rights of Torture Victims, INSEC
Victims of Torture have been regularly ignored despite their continuous demand, a constitutional guarantee against the practice and the ratification of several international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and more>>>
AFGHANISTAN: Juvenile justice system lacks resources
"She was sentenced to one year in a reformatory because she escaped from home three months ago," Hangama Anwary, a commissioner for children's rights at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), said on 25 June.
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Vietnam: Speaking Up for Vietnam
A Buddhist monk missing since authorities evicted him from his pagoda. A Montagnard Christian beaten to death in police custody. A lawyer involuntarily committed to a mental hospital after she championed the rights of farmers kicked off their land. Journalists jailed for exp more>>>
JAPAN SHOULD BECOME A CHAMPION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, Human Rights Watch
Each day brings news of a new human rights crisis. Even focusing only on our Asian neighbors, countless civilians are being killed in conflicts in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka; governments are crushing protest movements in Burma, Tibet and Uzbekistan; security forces and armed more>>>
Burma: Saffron Soldiers, Asian News (June 13- 19, 2008)
The monks who have been driven out of Burma after the September 2007 revolution are not backing down just yet
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Pakistan: Abolish the Death Penalty, Human Rights Watch
Until the death penalty is abolished by an act of Parliament, Pakistan should announce an immediate moratorium while the government establishes a commission to review the application of the death penalty, the offenses for which it can be applied, and implements reforms to en more>>>