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Dobbs and Dignity

Dobbs and Dignity

United States, Abortion, Gender, Right to Health, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Image description: A board with the sign 'Bans Off Our Bodies". On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that ...

A Bone Tossed to the Europhobes – Free Speech in Britain’s Proposed Bill of Rights

A Bone Tossed to the Europhobes – Free Speech in Britain’s Proposed Bill of Rights

United Kingdom, Constitutions and Human Rights

Image Description: Graffiti of "Free Speech" on a red brick wall with a person with their back to the camera in a ...

One Step Forward and Two Steps Back – The Bill of Rights Bill and Overseas Military Operations

One Step Forward and Two Steps Back – The Bill of Rights Bill and Overseas Military Operations

United Kingdom, Conflict and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights

The development of human rights protection throughout history has been characterised by cycles of advancement and ...

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Shaping the Future

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How can human rights be harnessed to fulfil sexual and reproductive health rights? Shaping the Future, explores this question. It examines sexual and reproductive health and human rights advocacy in the context of abortion, safe childbirth, school and work and examines different human rights tactics in advancing sexual and reproductive health. The series takes a comparative perspective and considers how the strong moral and legal imperatives of human rights can be given detailed substance by grounding them in local context and making them effective in relation to individuals’ lived experiences.

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“That’s the Key Question: Institutional Responsibility for Inequality (Episode 4)

“That’s the Key Question: Institutional Responsibility for Inequality (Episode 4)

Human rights experts reveal how we could reform equality law to make sure it protects the most vulnerable in ...

Plug Those Gaps: Reforms to Equality Law (Episode 3)

Plug Those Gaps: Reforms to Equality Law (Episode 3)

Human rights experts reveal how we could reform equality law to make sure it protects the most vulnerable in ...

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Latest Rights Up Pops

RightsUp Pops: Trevor Moore on Assisted Dying

RightsUp Pops: Trevor Moore on Assisted Dying

Catherine Briddick on Equality and Off-Shoring

Catherine Briddick on Equality and Off-Shoring

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A Critique of the Stigma Argument Against Affirmative Action in South Africa

Nomfundo Ramalekana

A Critique of the Stigma Argument Against Affirmative Action in South Africa

UNIVERSITY OF OXHRH JOURNAL

Communalisation of Citizenship Law: Viewing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 Through the Prism of the Indian Constitution

Jaideep Singh Lalli

Communalisation of Citizenship Law: Viewing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 Through the Prism of the Indian Constitution

UNIVERSITY OF OXHRH JOURNAL

The Citizenship Amendment Act breaches the right to equality and assaults the secular character of Indian citizenship law.

Basic Income, Gender and Human Rights

Beth Goldblatt

Basic Income, Gender and Human Rights

UNIVERSITY OF OXHRH JOURNAL

Combining feminist and human rights arguments has the potential to offer a new angle into the basic income debate.

The Big Gap in Discrimination Law: Class and the Equality Act 2010

Alex Benn

The Big Gap in Discrimination Law: Class and the Equality Act 2010

UNIVERSITY OF OXHRH JOURNAL

With growing awareness of classism as a form of discrimination, it is becoming harder to deny its place in the Equality Act.

Should the Indian Supreme Court Scrap the Marital Rape Exemption?

Bryan Dennis Gabito Tiojanco

Should the Indian Supreme Court Scrap the Marital Rape Exemption?

UNIVERSITY OF OXHRH JOURNAL

Judges always have at the ready some doctrinal basin to wash their hands of moral complicity.

The Unconstitutionality of the Marital Rape Exemption in India

Agnidipto Tarafder and Adrija Ghosh

The Unconstitutionality of the Marital Rape Exemption in India

UNIVERSITY OF OXHRH JOURNAL

The marital rape exemption reinforces the patriarchal stereotype that women have no sexual freedom or autonomy within marriage.