Mar 3, 2017
The Megaphone / Tyee (BC) – Stefanie Seccia
‘Red Zones’ Set the Marginalized Up for More Trouble, Study Finds
The link offers a connection to a couple of sources where the questions around bail conditions include “red zones,” or place where, in about 20% of cases, someone released on bail is not allowed to go or face additional charges. The article is part of a study in four major Canadian cities of how bail conditions impact the life of the person charged and the legal system. While the number of charges is decreasing, breaches of court orders, also known as administrative justice offences, is one of the areas in the justice system that is increasing and contributing to court delays. https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/03/01/DTES-Red-Zones/ Related article: Blogger Russell Webster (UK) Probation changes mean more women recalled to prison http://www.russellwebster.com/ora-women-recalls/
Globe and Mail – Gloria Galloway
Ottawa starts compensating residential school survivors over rejected claims
The federal government had admitted that there were unfair disqualifications for people abused in the residential schools and the reasons were an “administrative split” used by federal government lawyers to exclude certain claims. The acknowledgement of the problem has led to a negotiated settlement with a number of such victims previously excluded. To date, “he Independent Assessment Process, which expects to hold its final hearing later this year, has settled more than 36,000 claims and paid out more than $3.1-billion in compensation.” So far eleven of the excluded claims have been offered settlements, six have accepted for a further $500,000. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-starts-compensating-residential-school-survivors-over-unfairly-rejected-claims/article34196586/
Globe and Mail – Robyn Doolittle
Nova Scotia judge under fire for claiming ‘a drunk can consent’ in sex-assault case
Justice Gregory Lenehan has the sexual assault community buzzing with a ruling about the Crown’s efforts to insist that a rape victim who was so intoxicated that she was refused admission to a downtown bar also refused consent to have sex with a taxi driver in whose cab she had passed out. Justice Lenehan faulted the crown’s case suggesting that there was no clear proof that the victim in fact refused to have sex. The taxi driver was acquitted. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/nova-scotia-judge-taxi-driver-sex-assault-case/article34184036/
Centre for Justice Innovation (UK) – Ben Estop
Supporting Youth Diversion: A toolkit for practioners
The link is to a 27 page downloadable pdf that offers a point of arrest guidance on diversion with the research to justify diversion and the messaging to help support the call for diversion. http://justiceinnovation.org/portfolio/supporting-youth-diversion/
Human Rights Watch – Peter Bouckaert
The Killing Squads: Inside the Philippines’ ‘War on Drugs’
We have been hearing for some time about non-judicial killings of drug dealers and drug suspects by the Philippines military and police. Bouckaert has begun documenting an estimated 7,000 such killings, apparently with the full support of President Duterte. Rather than a “war on drugs,” Bouckaert is declaring a real war on the urban poor. https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/03/02/killing-squads-inside-philippines-war-drugs&utm_content=WIR.03.02.2017 Human Rights Watch report: “License to Kill” Philippine Police Killings in Duterte’s “War on Drugs” https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/philippines0317_web_1.pdf Related report: Human Rights Watch report The Killing Squads: Inside the Philippines’ ‘War on Drugs’ https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/03/02/killing-squads-inside-philippines-war-drugs
World Economic Forum (Davos) – Hilary Sutcliffe
5 lessons from the past for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The question for those anticipating great technological impact on human life and the workplace is the lessons we have learned thus far from the growth of those technologies. Suggesting that innovation tends to develop in silos, and therefore slow to come to light, Sutcliff offers five key lessons from the trek to nanotechnologies thus far, concluding with advice on early warnings in the noise. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/02/lessons-from-nanotech-for-the-4th-industrial-revolution/
CBC News – Lisa Laventure
Central American corridor a dangerous route for migrants heading to Canada – Profile of asylum seekers using corridor running north through Central America is changing
This article focuses on the journey that brings refugees from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala fleeing violence and introduces a new wrinkle in that this corridor is also rife with refugees from Africa and Asia, making their way over four or five months through Mexico, through the US and some to Canada. “Tapachula, in the Chiapas region of Mexico, is a key transit hub on the Mexican-Guatemalan border. CBC News met dozens of migrants there, young men and women who fled their homes in Somalia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ethiopia, Eritrea, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Haiti.” http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/african-migrants-mexico-dreams-canada-1.3992471?en_txn10=17-ENEWS_UNR