Olivia Rani Bessant

Olivia Rani Bessant is an Oxford Law with Law Studies in Europe Graduate. She was selected by the Oxford Human Rights Hub to write a paper, A Conceivable Change in our approach to the Sex Work Industry, and present it at the conference Beyond Human Rights? Rethinking Gender Equality in Law and Politics, at the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotà, Colombia (October 2017).

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A Small Success for LGBT Rights in Russia

A Small Success for LGBT Rights in Russia

Maxim Neverov, 16, was the first minor charged for ‘promoting homosexuality,’ under the Russian Federal Law, “On Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development” passed in 2010. This law prohibits the ...
Religious symbols in schools: Passive and harmless or a powerful threat?

Religious symbols in schools: Passive and harmless or a powerful threat?

In Lautsi v Italy (2012), the applicant argued that the presence of crucifixes in state school classrooms violated students’ Article 9 ECHR right to religious freedom, but the ECtHR deemed the cross a ‘passive symbol’ and Article 9 ...