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Giving Voice to the Vulnerable: How Advisory Opinions Have the Potential to Advance Climate Justice through International Courts

Giving Voice to the Vulnerable: How Advisory Opinions Have the Potential to Advance Climate Justice through International Courts

American Convention on Human Rights, Bangladesh, Chile, United Nations, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Children's Rights, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Intersectionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Food and Water, Right to healthy environment, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of Review

In the context of the current climate crisis, climate change litigation has taken a new form over the past year. ...

Religious Freedom versus Free Speech: Sweden’s Legal Tightrope

Religious Freedom versus Free Speech: Sweden’s Legal Tightrope

European Union, Sweden, United Nations, Constitutions and Human Rights, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, , Standard of Review

The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution aimed at combating religious hatred and blasphemy ...

Suicides within India’s Agricultural Industry: How Climate Change and Government Policy are Impacting Human Rights

Suicides within India’s Agricultural Industry: How Climate Change and Government Policy are Impacting Human Rights

India, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Life, Right to work, Role of the Judiciary, , Socio-Economic Rights, Standard of Review, Substantive Equality

Over 650 farmers have committed suicide in the central region of Maharashtra, India, from January to August 2023. ...

The 2024 Paris Olympics: AI Mass Surveillance Under the Upcoming EU AI Act

The 2024 Paris Olympics: AI Mass Surveillance Under the Upcoming EU AI Act

European Union, France, Counter-terrorism, Right to Freedom of Assembly, Right to Privacy, , Technology

Drafting legislation that spans 27 countries has always been a formidable challenge for the European Union’s ...

Germany’s New Law for Self-Determination: Progressive for Some, Regressive for ‘Others’

Germany’s New Law for Self-Determination: Progressive for Some, Regressive for ‘Others’

European Convention on Human Rights, Germany, Gender, Gender identity, Human Dignity, Immigration and Asylum, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health,

Germany is currently in the process of amending its gender self-identification law to make it more progressive. ...

Europe’s Gender Recognition Tug-of-War Continues in Germany – Part 2: Implications of the Draft Law on Self-Determination

Europe’s Gender Recognition Tug-of-War Continues in Germany – Part 2: Implications of the Draft Law on Self-Determination

European Convention on Human Rights, Germany, Gender, Gender identity, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health,

Germany may soon close a troubled chapter on its legal provision for gender recognition, ending the decades-long ...

Europe’s Gender Recognition Tug-of-War Continues in Germany – Part 1: The Law as it Stands

Europe’s Gender Recognition Tug-of-War Continues in Germany – Part 1: The Law as it Stands

European Convention on Human Rights, Germany, Gender, Gender identity, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health,

Germany may soon close a troubled chapter on its legal provision for gender recognition, ending the decades-long ...

The Wait is Coming to an End: The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Promising Opportunity to Finally Decriminalise Abortion up to 12 Weeks

The Wait is Coming to an End: The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Promising Opportunity to Finally Decriminalise Abortion up to 12 Weeks

Brazil, Abortion, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Human Dignity, Right to Health, Right to Privacy, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Substantive Equality

In September 2023, a key event changed the direction of discussions about the criminalisation of abortion in ...

Neurorights: safeguarding human autonomy and dignity in the age of neurotechnology

Neurorights: safeguarding human autonomy and dignity in the age of neurotechnology

Chile, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy,

A ground-breaking recent publication has detailed the first use of fMRI – in conjunction with a novel brain ...

Unravelling the Human Rights Implications of Sri Lanka’s New Anti-Corruption Law

Unravelling the Human Rights Implications of Sri Lanka’s New Anti-Corruption Law

Sri Lanka, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Role of the Judiciary

Human rights in Sri Lanka have only deteriorated in recent years amidst the economic crisis that unfolded in 2022. ...

Italy’s “Hard Prison”Regime and its Human Rights Implications

Italy’s “Hard Prison”Regime and its Human Rights Implications

European Convention on Human Rights, Italy, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

The case of Alfredo Cospito, an anarchist who remained on a “41-bis” detention regime despite a 6-month long ...

The Disability Ground in Abortion Law, and the Negative ‘Message’ it is Sending: R (Crowter) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

The Disability Ground in Abortion Law, and the Negative ‘Message’ it is Sending: R (Crowter) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

United Kingdom, Abortion, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

A recent decision of the Court of Appeal involved a very interesting legal challenge based on an alleged negative ...

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