A proposed law change would criminalise protests near private residences. But laws against disruptive or violent protest already exist, so what’s the point?
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Domestic and international laws obligate the Kenyan state to enable citizens to realise the right to peaceful assembly.
Student protests on campuses are calling attention to atrocities in Gaza and challenging university administrators to divest. What is the best way forward that avoids unnecessary violence?
The dismantling of the liberation armies and that of the apartheid state was managed badly. It left in its wake thousands of angry veterans who felt betrayed.
From his positions at the United Nations, Professor Heyns made a huge impact on the protection of the right to life and the right of peaceful assembly.
There are individual activists and political groupings who believe violent action is legitimate and use the circumstances to actively drive such behaviour.
Scholars who study policing explain what they have found that could help reduce police prejudice and violence.
They’ve been branded as anarchists and ‘fringe-dwellers’, but do Extinction Rebellion protesters really warrant such drastic reactions?
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