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AI-mediated ecological resilience & Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in climate-vulnerable communities Jibril, Abubakar Muhammad
Priviet Social Sciences Journal Vol. 5 No. 7 (2025): July 2025
Publisher : Privietlab

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.55942/pssj.v5i7.446

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Climate change is not just an environmental risk but also a multiplier of gender-based violence (GBV), especially among impoverished communities that have been displaced and lack access to effective legal remedies. The research explores how environmental stresses such as floods, drought, and forced migration of communities amplify GBV in Sub-Saharan African and Southeast Asian climate-exposed areas. It also deals with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for enhancing legal systems, risk pattern detection, and building gender-sensitive climate resilience. Using a qualitative socio-legal methodology, the study combines doctrinal legal analysis, feminist legal theory, and artificial intelligence tools like natural language processing (NLP) in analyzing public discourse, identifying policy gaps, and evaluating regulatory gaps. The key findings report increases in domestic violence, sexual exploitation, child marriage, and trafficking during the climate disasters, especially during the recovery phases. Although AI has promise in monitoring GBV trends online and in revealing policy blind spots on climate, ethical concerns are raised, especially around accessibility, surveillance concerns, and cultural exclusion. The study demands integrating GBV safeguards into climate adaptation legislation, codesign of moral AI systems with at-risk consumers, and binding international law to prevent GBV in the aftermath of disasters. It offers a rights model that connects gender justice, legal reform, and ethical application of AI.
Life after accusation: Forced internment, human rights violations, and the urgent case for criminalizing witchcraft claims in Ghana Jibril, Abubakar Muhammad; Manitra , Ramalina Ranaivo Mikea; Hossain, Arafat
Priviet Social Sciences Journal Vol. 5 No. 8 (2025): August 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.55942/pssj.v5i8.443

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Accusations of witchcraft in Ghana are still causing forced displacement and severe human rights violations in impoverished, aging women, and other disadvantaged persons. This research is a sociolegal examination of the legal reaction to the protracted crisis in Ghana. Assisted by doctrinal methodology, this article critically examines Ghana's 1992 Constitution, the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29), and the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2022, against relevant international human rights obligations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the ICCPR. To effectively implement the law, this study employs qualitative data gathered from eight lengthy interviews with survivors, representatives of civil society, religious and traditional leaders, and policymakers. The research indicates that the current criminal law of Ghana offers no clear assurances against unfounded accusations of witchcraft; the bill, nevertheless, makes an effort to close the legislative lacuna by designating malicious accusations as an offence, which is punishable with imprisonment and compulsory compensation. The development has been long due to fostering essential rights relating to security, dignity, and non-discrimination. However, the delay in presidential assent highlights the necessity for continued advocacy. This research demonstrates that the passage of criminalization, alongside systemic reforms, police training, community sensitization programs, and reintegration assistance, is key to bringing forced internment to an end and making Ghana's domestic law consistent with its constitutional obligation and international human rights commitment.
Local Government Policy on The Impact of Climate Change in Coastal Regions Based on The Concept of Green Autonomy (Environmental Autonomy) Kholik, Saeful; Nurlinda, Ida; Muttaqin, Zainal; Priyanta, Maret; Jibril, Abubakar Muhammad
ADLIYA: Jurnal Hukum dan Kemanusiaan Vol. 19 No. 2 (2025): ADLIYA: Jurnal Hukum dan Kemanusiaan
Publisher : Fakultas Syariah dan Hukum UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/adliya.v19i2.40655

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The current centralized regime is preventing the implementation of climate change policy in line with the needs of affected regions. Consequently, many regions with distinctive coastal and small-island characteristics have been adversely affected by centralized policy largely due to a lack of regional government authority to establish climate change mitigation policy tailored to local needs. In this context, mitigation efforts based on green autonomy, namely the authority of regional government to establish climate change mitigation policy, are essential. Therefore, this research aims to identify the form of regional government policy addressing the impacts of climate change in coastal and small island regions, based on environmentally friendly autonomy. A doctrinal legal method was used with a descriptive-analytical approach, specifically a juridical-normative analysis that provides a descriptive analysis of regional government authority in climate change prevention. The results showed that the concept of climate change based on green autonomy emphasizes regional authority, independence, and independence in environmental management, particularly climate change efforts. This approach is operationalized by establishing cross-sectoral policy across structured and non-structured stages, starting with preparing coastal spatial plans consistent with regional interests without excluding national objectives. In conclusion, the concept of green autonomy offers a value contribution for government consideration in establishing climate change mitigation policy, and represents a new legal development for regional government in implementing concurrent authority matters.