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Justice Beyond the Grave: The Judgment of Dead and Living Women in Mogadishu’s Kangaroo Courts

By Osman Ali Hassan The “kangaroo court” of Somalia finds itself as the most tragic and potent illustration not in abstract legal theory, but in the lived and often extinguished realities of Somali women-rights. In Mogadishu, the formal judicial system, lauded in international mandates and strategic policy documents, reveals itself upon closer inspection to be... The post Justice Beyon