A mutiny at a prison camp in the Chelyabinsk region of central Russia has just shaken the country. Olesya Gerasimenko is one of the few journalists whom its director allowed into the penal zone, and to date the only one to interview him.
We need an unambiguous law which punish harassers and not the victims, says Ghaidaa Al-Absi.
نحن بحاجة إلى قانون غير مبهم وواضح لمعاقبة المتحرشين لا لمعاقبة الضحايا" غيداء العبسي"
Roseline Akhalu successfully appeals against decision to deport her to Nigeria where she would die within four weeks. OurKingdom, which has reported on this case since May 2012, publishes today’s statement from her advocates, Public Interest Lawyers.
Russia’s higher education institutions are popularly assumed to be among the most corrupt in the country. Augusto Come considers how the perceptions and realities of corruption in education will eventually impact Russia’s youngest generations (photo: www.obozrevatel.com).
A recent "drug sweep" in the central Arizona town of Casa Grande shows the hand of private corrections corporations reaching into the classroom, assisting local law enforcement agencies in drug raids at public schools.
Colorado & Washington State recently voted to legalize cannabis. Winston Ross of The Daily Beast takes a practical look at Washington’s new cannabis law.
Transgender people will continue to be harrassed, persecuted and murdered until society moves beyond the binary system of male/female to recognise transgender as a third identity. Only then will the data be collected and our deaths treated as no less important than any other human being, says Dee
