In Search Of Justice

Download or read book The Search for Justice written by Kumari Jayawardena and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important - yet silenced - subject. Six country volumes (one each on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and two on India, as well as two standalone volumes) comprising over fifty research papers and two book-length studies, detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic, institutional, societal, individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators. The essays in this volume examine history and contemporary politics to understand the root causes of sexual violence in Sri Lanka. They look at the polarization created around ethnic and linguistic identities during the three-decades of ethnic conflict, but also scrutinize the routine violence of communities towards their own women in daily life. The authors argue that in this transitional post-war phase, Sri Lankan women must not only be treated as victims, but as agents of change. The writers highlight a hitherto unaddressed aspect of sexual violence: that of the structures that enable impunity on the part of perpetrators, be they security personnel and paramilitary forces, members of armed rebel groups, gangs, local politicians and police or ordinary citizens including close family members. They demonstrate how impunity for perpetrators is both a failure of the formal justice process and a product of individual, community and social conditions and indeed the choices that victims and families make that promote silence over truth. At the end of more than a quarter century of conflict that has left some 100,000 dead, 50,000 women-headed households struggling to survive, as well as countless victims and survivors of sexual violence, the calls for justice can no longer be ignored.

Download or read book Six Authors in Search of Justice written by Michael Newman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close reading of each of the six figures with an analysis of some overarching questions such as the liminal condition of political transitions and the nature of justice.

Download or read book The Search for Justice written by Robert L Shapiro and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You watched The People v. O.J. Simpson. Now read the explosive inside story in this behind-the-scenes account of the trial. From June 13, 1994, to October 3, 1995, Robert Shapiro stood in the middle of a drama that held millions of Americans in thrall. In this book, the architect of the defense strategy tells the inside story of the O.J. Simpson trial from the beginning. With candor, wit, and compassion, the man who assembled the "dream team" brings to light the details of what has been called "the trial of the century," giving us revealing glimpses of the defendant and the others whose names have become so familiar: Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Marcia Clark, Judge Lance Ito, Chris Darden. Search for Justice deepens our understanding of the role and duty of a defense attorney, the "reasonable doubt" conclusion of the jury, and the place this story occupies in our culture.

Download or read book In Quest of Justice written by Khaled Fahmy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari’a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were introduced, Khaled Fahmy offers exciting new interpretations that are neither colonial nor nationalist. Moreover he shows how lower-class Egyptians did not see modern practices that fused medical and legal purposes in new ways as contrary to Islam. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and modernity.

Download or read book Someone's Daughter written by Silvia Pettem and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954, two college students were hiking along a creek outside of Boulder, Colorado, when they stumbled upon the body of a murdered young woman. Who was this woman? What had happened to her? The initial investigation turned up nothing, and the girl was buried in a local cemetery with a gravestone that read, "Jane Doe, April 1954, Age About 20 Years." Decades later, historian Silvia Pettem formed a partnership with law enforcement and forensic experts and set in motion the events that led to Jane Doe's exhumation and eventual identification, as well as the identity of her probable killer. The 2023 paperback edition includes an epilogue with updated information on how the mystery finally was solved.

Download or read book In Search of Justice written by M.M. Sehgal and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search Of Justice – is a memoir of an NRI entrepreneur who rose from the debris of poverty to carve a successful business empire abroad. He not only dreamt but lived his dreams. Determined, he decided to set up a Paper Mill in India, armed with state-of-the-art-technology, in the 1970s. And it is here that his fortunes changed. No matter how his heart ached to play the game in a fair manner, his rivals wouldn’t allow it. The politician-bureaucracy-judiciary nexus stripped him of all medals. His free spirit of entrepreneurship was butchered mercilessly. It is this sordid drama that M.M Sehgal recounts.

Download or read book Search for Justice written by Norbert Schlegel and published by Commonwealth Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fact that this book was even written attests to the monumental courage of the author. Norbert Schlegel recounts, in meticulous detail, the brutal murder of his own daughter at the hands of his son-in-law and his unfailing commitment to see justice done. The reader becomes privy to events that occurred, dialogue that was actually spoken, and anguish that was real and is now shared. Ultimately, one man's search for justice becomes a testament to his determination and love for his daughter.