Meghan Campbell
Deputy-Director
Meghan Campbell is a Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University of Birmingham and Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub.Her first monograph, Women, Poverty, Equality (Hart 2018) examined women's poverty in the CEDAW and her second, supported with a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Women's Equality (Hart 2025), looks at the relationship between women's equality and limits on rights. Her research focuses on women’s economic inequality and other overlooked aspects of women's equality.
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A Bright Future for Canadian Equality Law?
Women who are claiming refugee status in Canada are now able to access to subsidized day care. The Supreme Court of Canada in Quebec (Attorney General) v Kanyinda held that the exclusion of refugee women from this benefit was a breach ...
Coming of Age: The Adoption of 18 as the Legal Minimum Age of Marriage
Engendering the Right to Work in International Law: Recognising Menstruation and Menopause in Paid Work
The Carceral State vs Indigenous Women’s Lives: Battling Contexts in the Latest Supreme Court of Canada Decision
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Which context matters in determining a breach of the right to equality? The aims of the state in punishing crime or the painful impact of colonialism on the lives of Indigenous women? The ...
The Mirage of Accountability: Overseas Development Aid and the Law
The cutting of overseas development aid (ODA) from the globally recognised standard of 0.7 percent gross national income (GNI) to 0.5 percent GNI has made headline news and many are grappling with the negative consequences of the ...
New Beginnings: Indian Rights Jurisprudence After Puttaswamy
Author(s): Shreya Atrey and Gautam Bhatia
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The Employment Status of Uber Drivers A Comparative Report Prepared for the Social Law Project, University of the Western Cape
Women’s Human Rights and COVID-19
Should the Indian Supreme Court Scrap the Marital Rape Exemption?
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
The marital rape exemption reinforces the patriarchal stereotype that women have no sexual freedom or autonomy within marriage.
Intersectional Inequalities and Reproductive Rights: An India-Nepal Comparison
Recent judgments from India and Nepal are steeped in an intersectional understanding of inequality as a necessary approach to realise women's reproductive rights.
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