Social policy
Labour Unions To Petition Parliament, Threaten To Sue Ofori-Atta If…
Labour unions in Ghana are to petition parliament on what appears to be an illegality being committed by the Finance...
HRW Warns Lebanon Against Bringing Back Death Penalty
Human Rights Watch has urged Lebanon to respect its moratorium on the death penalty after calls for its reinstatement...
Taiwan Child Killer Escapes Death Penalty
A Taiwanese man who decapitated a three-year-old girl in public on a busy Taipei street escaped the death penalty...
Serial Executions Take Toll On Executioners Too, Critics Say
Putting a prisoner to death "stays with you for a long time," says Ron McAndrew. The former warden of Florida State...
Nigeria Sees ‘massive Spike’ In Death Sentences
Nigeria handed down an astonishing 527 death sentences in 2016, three times more than the previous year, in what...
Global Executions Fall 37% Since 2015, Amnesty International Says
The number of executions recorded worldwide in 2016 fell by 37% on the previous year, human rights group Amnesty...
Death Penalty Should Be Abolished From Our Statutory Books
The Former Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Justice Emile Short has suggested that death...
Union Rivalry Hits Tema Shipyard
Junior Staff of the PSC Tema Shipyard have broken away to form a new union, and the Maritime and Dockworkers Union...
Nigerian To Be Executed In Singapore For Cannabis Possesion
Singapore has rejected an appeal for clemency by a Nigerian due to be executed on Friday for being in possession of...
President Should Implement the Death Penalty – Former Minister
His call follows an attempted jailbreak by notorious criminal, Johnson Kombian and two others at the Nsawam prison...
Ghana Has 137 Death Row Inmates
Lawrence Amesu, the Director of Amnesty International Ghana, said a lot had been achieved towards ensuring that Ghana...