Extrajudicial killings

Once a religious commune and now a violent terrorist organization, Boko Haram is impacting the country and surrounding countries of Nigeria. Their activity includes killing civilians, targeting government buildings, and even sending children in as suicide bombers to bomb buildings such as mosques. The main goal is for the group to turn the country of Nigeria into a true Islamic state. They believe that Islam should be the main religion and the country should move away from western and secular…

INTRODUCTION Amnesty International is a global movement of people campaigning for internationally recognized human rights to be respected and protected. A worldwide voluntary based membership organization holding more than 3 million supports, members and activists from across 150 countries and territories. The amnesty international is one of the world’s largest organizations campaigning for human rights, consisting of sections, affiliated groups and individual members. It is a non-profit Non…

In the last few years one of the most prominent topics in the news has been police brutality. Unfortunately, a direct result of this brutality is the killings of many innocent black people. Through this, organizations like Black Lives Matter have been created to help bring attention to this topic. Black Lives Matter is an important movement for the black community because it forces us to examine institutional racism, police brutality, the deaths of innocent black people, and general racism more…

Police Brutality There have been numerous rumors about police misuse force with civilians, the news and the media been over multiple times. This had resulted people to ignore it which led the civilians to see it as a part of the society. There are some cases that proved how police can be too brutal when they arrest civilians and that is going to be the main statement. There are logical reasons why the people would use extra force and brutality whenever the law enforcement deals with the…

a new political order, as part of Boko Haram. Religion is less of a cause than a justification for the activities of Boko Haram. After the extrajudicial killings of the group’s leader - Mohammed Yusuf, Boko Haram vowed revenge. Since they regrouped in April 2010, its attacks have grown in sophistication, intensity and geographic…

used this power to kill and torture thousands in the Middle East. A United Nations report accused ISIS of possible genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and human rights violations such as torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, and extrajudicial killings (United Nations 16). In the article Inside Canada’s New War, Michael Petrou shares the stories of those affected by these acts ISIS is committing. He interviews an elderly couple who had to leave their homes to live in a refugee camp in…

have seen the movement of #BlackLivesMatter, the organization defines themselves as, “a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society. Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes.” This movement was created in 2012 after the murder of Trayvon Martin. And his killer George Zimmerman was free of the crime. But the death of Trayvon martin would only be the beginning to what…

In the film “Crash” the “Isms” were played out from the beginning. The first “Isms” I noticed was the car accident scene and the Chinese women tells the police officer “Mexicans don’t know how to drive” and the scene where the two African American males were walking out of the restaurant and one of the say that he wasn’t going to pay for a service where they didn’t offer him coffee because of his skin color, the other male individual was stating he didn’t get coffee because he did not ask for it…

adolescent was strangled to death by a police officer, and though stark racial injustice was demonstrated by the actions of the officer, no chargers were pressed (Jee-Lyn García and Sharif, 2015). This organisational movement goes beyond the extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes. ("Black Lives Matter": Constructing a New Civil Rights and Black Freedom Movement, 2016). The movement continues to learn from past social movements, and further adopt new strategies by…

Purple Hibiscus is an intense tale about a dejected family and Nigeria’s slow recovery from colonialism told through the eyes of a 15- year old, Kambili. The book addresses some of the issues evident during the postcolonial era, which includes domestic violence, silencing of the victims and the multiple embodiments of postcolonial feminism. The author, Chimamanda Adichie, born in 1977 in Kambili’s hometown of Enugu, is of Igbo descent and is a Catholic and used her own childhood experience to…