Tag: Social policy

Japan executed two convicted murderers on Thursday, the justice ministry said, ignoring calls from international rights groups to end capital ...

Labour unions in Ghana are to petition parliament on what appears to be an illegality being committed by the Finance ...

Human Rights Watch has urged Lebanon to respect its moratorium on the death penalty after calls for its reinstatement following ...

A Taiwanese man who decapitated a three-year-old girl in public on a busy Taipei street escaped the death penalty Friday ...

Putting a prisoner to death "stays with you for a long time," says Ron McAndrew. The former warden of Florida ...

Nigeria handed down an astonishing 527 death sentences in 2016, three times more than the previous year, in what Amnesty ...

The number of executions recorded worldwide in 2016 fell by 37% on the previous year, human rights group Amnesty International ...

The Former Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Justice Emile Short has suggested that death penalty should be ...

Junior Staff of the PSC Tema Shipyard have broken away to form a new union, and the Maritime and Dockworkers ...

Singapore has rejected an appeal for clemency by a Nigerian due to be executed on Friday for being in possession ...

His call follows an attempted jailbreak by notorious criminal, Johnson Kombian and two others at the Nsawam prison Sunday. Kombian ...

Lawrence Amesu, the Director of Amnesty International Ghana, said a lot had been achieved towards ensuring that Ghana gains the ...