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Civilian Life at Risk in Iran: The Hard-Hitting Effects of the US Economic Sanctions

Saeed Bagheri and Amin Bagheri - 5th August 2019

Socio-Economic Rights

Following the US-imposed oil embargo and a web of hard-hitting economic sanctions, Iran’s economy and the lives of Iranian civilians have been hit hard a year after the US withdrawal from the 2015 Nuclear Deal (JCPOA). In May 2018, Donald Trump formally pulled the US out of the Nuclear Deal in order to reimpose the sanction against Iran as a […]

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Innovative remedies under a flexible Constitution: A view from South Africa

Jasper Gold - 26th July 2019

Access to Justice| Socio-Economic Rights

As an undergraduate, the focal point of interest in a case was what happened in court. The judgment, and specifically the ratio; the facts, maybe the arguments from time to time. Rarely was much thought given to what happened after judgment was handed down, except the occasional tidbit, such as a lecturer telling us that […]

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California is Poised to Expand Labour Protections for Workers

Catherine Fisk - 8th July 2019

Business & Human Rights| Gig Economy and Human Rights| Socio-Economic Rights

California, many other states, and the United States government, have laws imposing minimum standards of employment (such as wages and hours), limited financial benefits for workers who become unemployed or are injured in the course of employment, and benefits for employees after retirement age or who become unable to work because of disability. Most of […]

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Brown v. Board of Education at 65: A Job Still Undone

Michael Rebell - 30th May 2019

Socio-Economic Rights

This month marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision that declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. When he exited the Supreme Court building on May 17, 1954, after the decision had been announced, Thurgood Marshall, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, was asked […]

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Legal Gaps in Securing Customary Land Rights in Zambia

Mwai Daka - 4th April 2019

Socio-Economic Rights

The Asa Lato & 30 others case provides an opportunity for Zambia’s High Court to review legal gaps related to the conversion of customary land to registered leasehold tenure, especially those which make communities vulnerable to dispossession and landlessness. It also shines a light on the need for good governance and an end to corruption […]

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Justice Kennedy on Healthcare

Jennifer Oliva - 15th October 2018

Socio-Economic Rights

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who long served as the swing vote on important healthcare-related decisions, retired from the United States Supreme Court on July 31, 2018. The press and pundits alike reacted to Kennedy’s retirement announcement with dire forecasts that the Court’s healthcare jurisprudence would veer to the right. In fact, Justice Kennedy’s record of healthcare […]

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Blocking ride-sharing applications goes against free speech and human progress

Esteban Russell and Leornado Orlanski - 13th September 2018

Freedom of Expression| Gig Economy and Human Rights

Last year, a local court of Buenos Aires ordered the blockage of Uber’s app and website nationwide in Argentina. The decision stated that Uber had to be blocked (and banned) since its drivers occupied public spaces to engage in commercial activity, and that was a misdemeanor. On June 18 this year, the decision was overturned […]

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