Despite lapsed of six years of its promulgation juvenile justice Act of 2018 in Pakistan has not been fully implemented in its letters and spirit across Pakistan. For example, section 10 stipulated the juvenile justice committees across Pakistan to be notified for the resolution of cases of children said to have breached minor or major […]
In response to the 2017 Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the Juvenile Justice System Act 2018 (JJSA 2018) was enacted and promulgated on the 18th. of May 2018 in Pakistan to safeguard the best interest of children in conflict with the law. The preamble of the said Act desired children in conflict with the law to […]
Children in many countries continue to be sentenced to the death penalty and life imprisonment, often under outdated colonial laws and in violation of their rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the fifth blog of our series for the World Congress on Justice with Children, Sarmad Ali discusses research undertaken […]
As we awaited the verdicts in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer convicted on charges of murder and manslaughter Tuesday in the asphyxiation death last May of an unarmed — and handcuffed — Black man named George Floyd, there was much discussion of how high the stakes were. The American […]
We call them “trials of the century”, a colloquialism popularized by the media to describe pivotal court cases that often lead in their wake to a shift in the public discourse, indeed at times even in the ascendant paradigm. Though always suffused with political, moral and cultural passions, they are expected to play out in […]
Despite the Juvenile Justice System Act 2018 (JJSA) being in practice, minors in recent times faced discrimination, and were subjected to violence at police stations, and behind prisons across Pakistan. The recent death of a 14 year old child aroused strong condemnation. He was found dead in the police station of West Cantt-Peshawar and as […]
Mark Zuckerberg always knew. In 2012, when Instagram was two years old, with 13 employees and no obvious path to profitability, Zuckerberg knew that the fast-growing photo app was a potential threat to Facebook Inc.’s social media dominance. “Instagram can hurt us,” he wrote in an email. In an internal discussion about whether to buy […]
The Consortium for Street Children (CSC) in London estimates that there are about 1.5 million children on the streets of Pakistan. They are often subjected to violence, sexual abuse, child labor or forced into drugs. Karachi is the city of Pakistan- where it is said that 50,000 children have been connected to the streets. Many […]
Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has faced immense scrutiny of her religious beliefs, and we need to be vigilant against any religious bias or discrimination. But I marvel at the hypocrisy of Republicans who are expressing shock and outrage over this, after the way the right has treated Muslims. President […]
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized,” ~Sun Tzu, Chinese military general and strategist, 5th century BC When it was announced to U.S. President Donald Trump that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, while expressing his condolences, one could just see the glee in his eyes. The opportunities the vacant position on the Supreme […]