Call That Justice

Every day, tens of thousands of children around the world wake up behind bars. Many of them will have committed no offence. BBC investigates children's rights in justice systems around the world. In a hard-hitting three-part series called ' Call That Justice', BBC uncovers a global scandal about the neglect and abuse of children's rights within the justice system, around the world.

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Shifting Legal Boundaries : Gay Issues

Find out more at these sites:

http://www.yawningbread.org/apdx_2007/imp-308.htm

http://safesingapore.blogspot.com/2007/05/straits-times-forum-letter-whether.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/gay_divide.shtml

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The OJ Verdict

On October 3, 1995, an estimated 150 million people stopped what they were doing to witness the televised verdict of the O.J. Simpson trial. For more than a year, the O.J. saga transfixed the nation and dominated the public imagination.

Ten years later, veteran FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel revisits the "perfect storm" that was the O.J. Simpson trial. Through extensive interviews with the defense, prosecution and journalists, FRONTLINE explores the verdict -- which, more than any other in recent history, measured the difference between being white and black in America. (more) »

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/

More Resources

Was Justice done in O J Simpson Case ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.J._Simpson

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Simpson/simpson.htm

http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/

http://www.courttv.com/casefiles/simpson/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6165254.stm

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Burden of Innocence

Clyde Charles spent 17 years in Louisiana's state penitentiary at Angola before DNA testing finally cleared him of the rape for which he had received a life sentence.

Frederick Daye, Neil Miller, and Anthony Robinson each spent 10 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit before they were finally exonerated.

And Ron Williamson spent 11 years on Oklahoma's Death Row for a rape and murder he didn't commit. At one point, he was just five days away from being executed.

When these men walked out of prison, they were greeted by media cameras (including FRONTLINE's, in the case of Clyde Charles), jubilant family members, and triumphant attorneys. Hopes were high. Yet when FRONTLINE found Charles three years later, he was jobless and homeless, living in his car. And he is not alone. Charles is one of hundreds of wrongfully convicted prisoners -- the most celebrated being the approximately 130 cleared by DNA evidence -- who have found that re-entry into society is much more difficult than they ever expected.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/burden

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Homosexuality & Singapore

A raging debate in the parliament and various web forums discussing whether we should make homosexuality a crime or not.

To read some of the interesting viewpoints which may give you some insight into the different local perspectives, follow the links below.

http://www.keep377a.com/ http://www.keep377a.com/

http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/pdf/20071023/ThioLeeAnn.pdf

http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/pdf/20071023/Siew%20Kum%20Hong.pdf

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Escaping the Caste

On caste system in India

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1516_assignment/page30.shtml

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Coming Out

Homosexuality is one of the world's biggest taboos.

It has led to riots in Russia, huge splits in the Anglican Church, and was a large factor in the re-election of President Bush. Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe famously proclaimed that homosexuals were "worse than pigs and dogs."

Now in the first of two programmes, Clare English explores what it is like to be gay and asks why some societies are more tolerant than others.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6246332.stm

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