Killing justice
DOWN with the lockdown. Frankly, we’re tired. We knew there would be two scenarios as to how the pandemic would end. A medical end through the result of either widespread…
Issue of justice
THE WHO’s theme for this year’s World Mental Health Day is a call to invest more in mental health. This means not only training human resource to provide effective, affordable,…
Violence as justice
ON Friday, the National Assembly passed a resolution calling for the public hanging of convicted child molesters and rapists. Moved by the state minister for parliamentary affairs, it received majority…
Justice for Justice Isa?
THE judicial history of our blighted land is replete with verdicts in favour of usurpers and against elected civilian leaders, including several prime ministers — and have seen their execution…
Justice on trial
THE Supreme Court may have pushed back an attempt to undermine the independence of the judiciary by quashing a malicious presidential reference against a fellow judge, but the threat is…
Road to climate justice
DELIVERING the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020, Antonió Guterres, the UN secretary general, said that inequality defines our time. Because of globally growing extreme inequalities, the world system is at…
Power, justice and democracy
As a nation the world views us as synonymous with people of unpredictable talent – from politics to cricket. Our happiness is short-lived and so are our sorrows. Every now…
Social protection
Widespread under-nutrition, especially iron deficiency, determines a range of negative consequences impacting the welfare of individuals and families as well as the economic and social development of the nation. This…
No justice yet
Trump appeared jubilant as he shared with the American public the details of the operation that led to the killing of the infamous leader of the Islamic State of Iraq…
Focus on justice for all
ONE of the most significant activities at the United Nations last month was a review of the progress towards realising Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 (peace, inclusive societies, justice for…
