The article examines the concept of illicit sexual behavior in the customary law prevailing among the tribal society of Sierra Leone, on whom the English law has been imposed, and the conflicting definitions of rape in the general (English) law. The mechanisms to resolve sexual violations in ...
The Recaptives, freed in enforcement of British antislavery laws, were also taken to Freetown. Freetown became a British colony in 1808 and Sierra Leone obtained political independence from Britain in 1961. The development of the country was derailed by the death of its first Prime Minister, ...
Recently interest into the effects of pornography on children and young people’s sexual development has increased leading to an increase in studies in the area, laws being changed and public concern growing. This paper aims to recap these findings including more recent studies carried out in the...
These laws were central to the RUF's attempts to manage organisational control and cohesion. This calls for revisiting and revising the 'rape as a weapon of war' framework if it is to have explanatory power for the causes and mechanisms of gender violence in war....
Sanctions, since revoked, this issue was not developed in collaboration with the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor. The ICC has faced criticism for under-representation of non-Western laws, principles, rules, procedures, practices, or traditions in its legal structure and system. To what extent is...
The acts are named for Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. Historians vary slightly in which acts they include under the heading “Townshend Acts”, but five laws are frequently mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of...
Sanctions, since revoked, this issue was not developed in collaboration with the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor. The ICC has faced criticism for under-representation of non-Western laws, principles, rules, procedures, practices, or traditions in its legal structure and system. To what extent is...
Winstanley R Bankole Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2019: Parliamentarians are wont to shift blame for their enacting shoddy laws or for approving mediocre Presidential appointees to us the electorates. Their argument is that public input which is germane to their decision-ma...
These Countries Have Some of the Most Restrictive Abortion Laws in the World: El SalvadorThe Philippines MadagascarEgyptJamaicaSenegalHondurasNicaraguaThe Dominican RepublicThe CongoSierra LeoneIraqMauritaniaSurinameHaitiLaos Table of Contents A Global Anomaly El Salvador The Philippines Madagascar Egypt J...
The inhabitants of the coast of New Holland have half-closed eyes and cannot see into the distance without tilting their heads right back. They accustom themselves to this because of the many mosquitoes that are always flying into their eyes. Some peoples, like the Moors of Sierra Leone and ...