Cultura da Violência

A lawyer was charged in court on Sunday with falsifying official court documents. Lawyer Amadeus Cachia was accused of falsifying documents, including decrees of deferment of sittings involving clients who are currently at the Corradino Correctional Facility. He pleaded not guilty. According to...

A yard off Durumblat Street in Mosta that was supposed to be used as agricultural land has instead been used to deposit inert construction waste and as a parking lot for heavy machinery. In spite of a pending appeal on a refusal to grant the operation a permit as well as a suspended enforcement...

The digital world and the way that Maltese society is interacting virtually has been an area that we have been exploring together in the past few months through the digital rights study that I commissioned. Having discussed how essential social media and the need to interact virtually has become...

O trabalho escravo moderno precisa entrar em nosso fluxo mental para associarmos o que consumismos com o real problema.

Os pesquisadores Adriano Beiras, Marcos Nascimento e Caio Incrocci dão diretrizes para quem deseja estruturar um grupo com autores de violência

Veja o que relatam os membros do único grupo reflexivo para homens enquadrados pela Lei Maria da Penha existente na capital paulista.

Once again, Malta finds itself under the spotlight of harsh criticism for its treatment of migrants held in detention, this time in the latest report of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture. Once again, the Maltese authorities find themselves accused of institutional...

It is high time that we recognize all workers, be they Maltese, European or TCNs, as not only the backbone of the economy, but above all else, as human beings with rights and dignity

The courts should be given the elbowroom to ban people guilty of animal cruelty from owning pets, Animal Welfare Commissioner Alison Bezzina said on Tuesday. Her call for a change in the law came a day after a man who threw his pet dog to its death was handed a suspended jail term. The court...

A woman broke down in court on Wednesday as she described how a group of people allegedly took advantage of her loneliness and isolation during lockdown by tricking her into a fake relationship by people posing as a US soldier. Six people deny defrauding the 72-year-old out of almost €50,000 by...

Aina Onyekachi was at work on December 23 when she received a call from a social worker informing her that she will not be spending Christmas with her two children, as she has done every year since their birth. The Nigerian woman was told her children were going to be placed under a care order...

Three airline passengers were each fined €800 on Sunday after presenting fake COVID-19 test certificates when they were about to fly out of Malta earlier in the day. Nuder Man and his wife Gallis Geb Miklina, a Moscow-born couple, were due to catch a Turkish Airlines flight at 9am, but were...

Ten bird carcasses were found in a parcel that arrived from the UK, Customs said on Monday. In a statement, the department said the discovery was made last week after customs officials screening parcels at Malta Post flagged the suspicious parcel. The package was opened in the presence of Malta...

Soon-to-be parents are outraged about a decision to not allow fathers to spend time with their partner and newborn child, beyond the birth itself. New rules introduced as part of COVID-19 restrictions mean that while expectant fathers are allowed to attend their child’s birth, they must leave the...

Violence against women is potentially a greater pandemic than COVID-19 because it is killing women every day and has done so for ages, said Women for Women International vice-president Brita Fernandez Schmidt as the virus continues to spread one year on. Universally, women – from Afghanistan to...

A bill that will improve the rights of victims of crime started being debated in parliament on Monday, in line with a directive adopted by the European Union some years ago. Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis said the new law will establish minimum standards on the rights, support and...

A young Sudanese man who died last year after trying to escape detention was left three hours before the alarm was raised, a damning report by a Council of Europe committee has found. A delegation from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or...

The state of Malta's migrant centres during COVID-19 have been laid bare in a Council of Europe report that accuses the government of breaking international law and flouting European values. A delegation of the CoE's torture committee visited Malta in September 2020 and found migrants who were...

A man has been awarded €25,000 in compensation after the European Court of Human Rights found that the conditions of the Safi detention centre where he was held were inhumane and that his detention pending deportation from Malta was unlawful. In its judgment on Thursday in the case brought by...

On a recent rainy evening in East London, dozens of young people lined up outside a cramped community hub to collect rice, vegetables and other food essentials. In the line were foreign students who came to Britain to pursue their dreams of higher education, but have found themselves plunged into...

Updated 3.40pm with police statement Two armed and masked intruders posing as food delivery drivers left tenants of a Sliema apartment block reeling in shock on Friday night. Tenants believe the two men were out to burgle one of the apartments but had their attempt foiled by a tenant who...

The European Asylum Support Office headquartered in Valletta has received several reports from migrants detained at the Lyster and Safi barracks of physical torture, beatings, solitary confinement, denial or delay of medical care and, in some cases, electrocution. The EASO says it has “discussed”...

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In 2020, there were 4.1 million girls worldwide at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM). FGM comprises all procedures involving the performance of an operation or intervention for the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other permanent injury to the female...

You know how every now and then the Musketeers and D’Artagnan would draw their swords, point them at the sky, shout “All for one and one for all” and then set off into the sunset to redress a wrong? Inevitably, their mission would succeed because, you know, they were united. This unity issue...

A good friend told me how shocked she was when she read about the two priests charged with sexual abuse. In a show of respect towards confidentiality of the victim, the ongoing court case and the presumption of innocence of the accused, I will not delve into the details of the case. However, it...

I have read with attention the report concerning the prime minister’s speech last Sunday, where Robert Abela asks the Maltese population to “dream big” while he was addressing a Labour Party political activity. I agree that it is important to “dream big”, especially when competing in the...

During the 19th century, French political and liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville went to America to study the prison systems adopted there. His visit culminated in two volumes titled Democracy in America. Tocqueville was sceptical about extreme views. He believed that the United States offered...

In its 2020 human trafficking report, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime noted that of every 10 persons trafficked, five were adult women and two were young girls. The same report noted that data from 106 countries indicated 77 per cent of reported cases of adult female trafficking was for sexual...