Ruth Green

Manchester

Senior Reporter and Multimedia Journalist at Freelance

Multimedia Journalist at International Bar Association

Freelance journalist specialising in legal and social affairs | Senior Fellow @JSchofieldTrust | Senior Mentee @WIJ_UK

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Articles

Georgian nightmare

1 month ago | journals.sagepub.com | Ruth Green

Repression is seeping into more and more aspects of life in Georgia, writes RUTH GREEN“NO TO CENSORSHIP” and “No to repression” read the banners unfurled by protesters night after night as they walk along Rustaveli Avenue in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Protests are nothing new to the city’s main thoroughfare.
Rule of law: UK government acts to curb use and abuse of NDAs

1 month ago | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

Following repeated scandals revealing the widespread use and abuse of non-disclosure agreements, the UK government has given the green light to ban their use in England’s higher education sector, whilst also considering a broader ban to prevent their misuse by employers more widely. The implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 was put on hold following the country’s 2024 summer general election and the government will introduce a revised version later this year.
US Presidency: retreat from world stage boosts Russia and China

1 month ago | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, 2018. Trump White House Archived/Flickr.comDonald Trump’s second presidential term, with its dizzying array of executive orders, policy revocations, funding cuts, tariff threats and withdrawals from international bodies, has sent both the country and the world into a tailspin. As the US relinquishes its leadership role on the world stage, China and Russia are filling the resulting vacuum.
In depth: Irish language to be used in Northern Ireland courts

1 month ago | lawgazette.co.uk | Ruth Green

In a ‘historic and monumental achievement’, Irish can now be used in Northern Ireland’s courts. But questions remain about how this will affect the administration of justiceThe Royal Courts of Justice in BelfastA near 300-year ban on speaking Irish in courtrooms in the counties which came to comprise Northern Ireland was recently lifted – just in time for St Patrick’s Day.
Latin America’s crucial electoral cycle

1 month ago | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

Latin America’s upcoming votes take place against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s second administration. Global Insight assesses the implications, from constitutional change to the bond markets and immigration. As Latin America enters another pivotal year of elections in 2025, countries across the region face considerable challenges: inequality, crime, migration and security to name just four.
News Group Newspapers makes ‘unprecedented’ public apologies and admissions of wrongdoing

2 months ago | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp Founder. World Economic Forum/Flickr.comIn a major settlement, Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has made ‘a full and unequivocal apology’ for the ‘serious intrusion by The Sun’ into the Duke of Sussex’s private life. News Group also admitted for the first time ‘incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for The Sun’ between 1996 and 2011.
'I'm not tech-savvy - but within hours I could buy an illegal knife on social media'

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Ruth Green

I'm 48, use social media occasionally, and I'm not very tech-savvy. Until recently I'd never used Telegram. But last year, after meeting the family of Ronan Kanda - the 16-year-old who was killed in a case of mistaken identity by two other teenagers who'd bought a sword and machete online - I decided to figure out how easy it was to buy a knife from social media. It seemed like the children in the case were able to buy huge, deadly weapons with shocking ease.
Widely criticised election sees ‘brutal democracy’ continue in Belarus

Feb 10, 2025 | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus. Prachatai/Flickr.comBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has secured a seventh consecutive term in an election denounced internationally as a ‘sham’. The country’s Central Election Committee (CEC) announced that Lukashenko won 86.8 per cent of the vote on 26 January, with turnout topping 85 per cent. Already the longest serving president in Europe after 31 years in power, Lukashenko’s re-election will see him remain in office until at least 2030.
Bobi Wine still standing up to oppression in Uganda, politically and musically

Jan 31, 2025 | indexoncensorship.org | Danson S. Kahyana |Jemimah Steinfeld |Mackenzie Argent |Ruth Green

In Uganda, to be an opposition politician is to be a marked man or woman. You can be taken out of action at any time. This is one of the lessons that president Yoweri Museveni’s most formidable challenger – the popstar-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine – has learnt. In September, just weeks before talking to Index, Wine was taken to hospital after the police fired tear gas to disperse his supporters in the town of Bulindo, about 17km north of Kampala.
Ukraine overcomes challenges to become 125th country to ratify Rome Statute

Jan 30, 2025 | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

On 1 January Ukraine finally ratified the Rome Statute and formally became the 125th state party to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Iryna Mudra, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Justice, tells Global Insight that the ratification marks a watershed moment for Ukraine. ‘Ratification gives Ukraine full access to the International Criminal Court,’ she says.