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Tatiana Kazim - 15th December 2020
If you are a transgender child living in England and Wales, what treatment can the NHS offer you? Until recently, one of the main options was a prescription of puberty blocking drugs (PBs), available through the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. PBs suspend the maturation of the gonads […]
Natalia Brigagao - 13th November 2020
In July 2019, I wrote a blog post introducing the main arguments presented to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) through an amicus curiae brief. The case concerned Brazil’s neglect to prevent and remedy human rights violations that arose from an explosion at an irregular, high-risk fireworks factory in the city of Santo Antônio […]
Alvin Attalo - 3rd November 2020
In BPA v Directors, Brookhouse Schools, a group of parents ofminors at Brookhouse Schools, a private school, challenged the introduction of the virtual learning programme, following the shutdown of schools by the Ministry of Education due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In support of their case, the petitioners argued that the school administration’s decision to conduct […]
- 30th September 2020
In 2012, the Board of Secondary Education in Karachi (BSEK), made it mandatory for ninth grade students to possess a Child Registration Certificate. The certificate serves as an identity for nationals below the age of 18. Refugee children cannot obtain it. They are instead provided with Proof of Registration (PoR) cards, which merely entitle the […]
Vasiliki Poula - 26th September 2020
The high number of unaccompanied migrant minors detained in ‘protective custody’ in police station cells and pre-removal detention centers across Greece has been a matter of vehement legal and political critique on a national, European and international level. According to Greek authorities, ‘protective custody’ is legally embedded in Article 118 of Decree no. 141/1991, which […]
Rakshitt Bajpai - 23rd September 2020
The recent statistical report presented by the National Statistical Organization (NSO) indicates the deteriorating standards of availability of internet and computers to students in India, which violates their fundamental rights and creates a digital divide between the privileged and the unprivileged. The situation of India’s education sector is deteriorating rapidly, which is reflected in the […]
- 17th September 2020
When armed groups control territory, they not infrequently administer public services, and the pandemic is no exception. Non-state armed groups in the Philippines introduced a “shelter in place” order requiring people to self-isolate, in Gaza they established quarantines, and those in Myanmar and eastern Ukraine instituted pandemic travel restrictions. Similarly, gangs in the favelas of Brazil […]
Alvin Attalo - 4th September 2020
In Teachers Service Commission v WJ & 5 others [2020] eKLR, the Court of Appeal held that the Teacher’s Service Commission (TSC), a body with the constitutional responsibility to employ and exercise disciplinary control over teachers, and the State, were vicariously liable for the actions of a Deputy Head Teacher for the sexual abuse of […]
Annabel Webb - 15th August 2020
As the indivisibility of human rights and environmental protection solidifies as a norm of international human rights law, children are increasingly claiming their right to environmental protection under domestic constitutions and international human rights mechanisms. Children’s legal claims argue States’ obligations to protect them against the looming ecological catastrophe of climate change as a matter […]
- 27th July 2020
In Equal Education and Others v Minister of Basic Education, the organisation Equal Education and the school governing bodies of two public schools (“the applicants”), represented by SECTION27 and the Equal Education Law Centre, sought an order directing the government to resume the National School Nutrition Programme (“NSNP”) and for the court to issue a […]
Mwai Daka - 1st June 2020
Excluded from school since the civil war, orphaned by the deadly Ebola outbreak, and now quarantined by Covid-19, the judgement in the case of WAVES CWS-SL and The Republic of Sierra Leone is a landmark for pregnant girls in Sierra Leone. The judgement sets a precedent that young girls have a right to education without […]
- 28th May 2020
On February 10, the Supreme Court of India (SC) issued a notice to prohibit children from entering the areas where Anti – CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) protests were held. The notice was issued in a matter where the SC took suo moto cognisance of the involvement of children in protests in a letter addressing the […]