Tag: Criminology

A Circuit Court in Accra has acquitted and discharged the 26-year-old student Queenie Akuffo who was facing trial for allegedly ...

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is celebrated on March 21 every year. This year’s theme is: “racial ...

A rubbish collector who allegedly could not control his sexual appetite and raped a 23-year-old paralysed woman has been arraigned ...

Alleged rape victims in England and Wales may not have to be cross-examined in front of the accused, under plans ...

Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda has revealed she is a rape survivor and suffered sexual abuse as a child. In an ...

Russia's lower house of parliament has passed a bill to decriminalise some forms of domestic violence. Under the proposed legislation, ...

Donald Trump has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants. The US President’s sweeping ...

Donald Trump has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants. The US President’s sweeping ...

In this era where the media has taken center stage in every discussion, I think we are losing site of ...

India's human rights watchdog said more than a dozen tribal women were raped by police in restive Chhattisgarh state with ...

Following the “cruel, inhumane and degrading” experiences in Ghanaian prisons, three human right lawyers are dragging the country’s Attorney-General, Marietta ...

Three lawyers have sued the Attorney-General, Marietta Appiah-Oppong, for what they say are inhumane and degrading conditions at the country ...

As part of efforts to ensure a free and fair elections, the Electoral Commission has made some offences in connection ...

An experiment to see whether computers can identify criminals based on their faces has been conducted in China. Researchers trained ...

A human rights lawyer and lecturer at the Queens University, Belfast School of Law in the UK, Dr Yassin Brunger, ...

Florence Osei, also known as Afua Birago, the girlfriend of deceased Kumasi-based journalist Confidence Eric Kwadwo Baah, has been granted ...

Eight men were found guilty on Monday of waging what prosecutors called an "utterly abhorrent" campaign of sexual violence and ...

Sexual harassment, rape, defilement and incest have been on the ascendancy in recent times. Hardly a day passes without some ...

Forensic teams examined the scene of the blast on Sunday Hungarian police are searching for a suspect who set off ...

A Canadian judge is facing a disciplinary hearing over controversial comments he made while presiding over a sexual assault case ...