Love, Lies, and the Law: The Quandary of Criminalising False Promise to Marry in India
Indian law is notorious for censuring sexuality outside of marriage, especially for women. A pertinent example is the criminalisation of a ‘false promise to marry’ (FPM) as rape, which recent...
The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Iraq
The Republic of Iraq ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1986 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...
The European Court of Human Rights’ Gendered Climate Docket: KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho
...the inequality women and girls already face in society. As UN Women’s new Feminist Climate Justice Framework posits, the climate crisis can affect women and girls both in terms of...
Shining a Light in the Darkness: How The Karnataka Model Bridges Economic Divides and Advances Human Rights
...and security. This aligns with the Article 13 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which aims to eliminate discrimination against women in...
The Enshrinement of Abortion in the French Constitution. Kairos: Dobbs as a window of opportunity? (Part I)
...the Constitution of the “guaranteed freedom” for women to abortion. This two-part blog examines the enshrinement of abortion in the French Constitution. In the first part, the blog offers recounts...
Women’s Invisible Labour, Kinkeeping and Care: Ireland’s 8 March Constitutional Referendum
On International Women’s Day, Ireland will hold votes on two proposed changes to Article 41 of the Constitution. The first would extend constitutional protection to families other than those based...
The ML v Poland ‘landmark’ judgment on reproductive rights and the ENNHRI third-party intervention: How ‘landmark’ is it in reality?
...conscientious objection, combined with the lack of obligation to direct women to alternative clinics and practitioners, has resulted in an assault on women’s fundamental rights as autonomous persons, with them...
Birthing Justice: Commercial Surrogacy and the Imperative of Women’s Rights in Contemporary India
...made by the women involved. In contrast, scholar Sivakami Muthuswamy emphasises on the necessity to respect women’s agency. While acknowledging that the decisions of women to become surrogates may be...
Intersectional Invisibility: Indian Women Manual Scavengers
...accompanying it also fail to account for the particularities these Dalit women experience. Brahminical Patriarchy Contextualised: Women in Manual Scavenging and the Law In Safai Karamchari Andolan v Union of...
Are we Missing Women in (AI) Healthcare Again? The EU’s Thoughts on AI-Empowered Medical Diagnosis
...sight of the harms AI systems can bring in contexts of discrimination. Gaps in medical diagnosis for women are not new but can be exacerbated with the broad usage of...
A Regression of Rights? The Exclusion of LGBTQI+ Individuals from the Supreme Court of India’s Sexual Harassment Regulations
...to make special provisions for women and to extend the constitutional right of equality and equal protection of laws to women. The rule of beneficial construction requires courts to interpret...
The UK’s First Country Visit under the Istanbul Convention. Part I: Systemic Challenges and Institutional Inertia
...effective measures addressing the specific needs of women from vulnerable groups: these include women with disabilities; women from national minorities such as the Roma community; LBT women; women from rural...
