Blogs by human rights

Human Dignity, Land Dispossession, And The Right To Security Of Tenure: A Note On The South African Constitutional Court’s Judgement In Daniels v Scribante

South Africa, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic Rights

In a recent judgement by the South African Constitutional Court, Daniels v Scribante and Another, the court made a ...

One More Step Towards Human Rights Protection: Tunisia Allows Direct Access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

African Charter on Human and People's Rights, Tunisia, Constitutions and Human Rights

On 16th April 2017, the Republic of Tunisia signed a declaration allowing individuals and NGOs to access the ...

Serbia’s New Domestic Violence Law and the Istanbul Convention: Potential and Challenges

Serbia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender

At the time where the old Russian proverb “If he beats you, it means he loves you’’ seems to have taken roots ...

Taking Some Human Rights Back: The Case of Ildar Dadin

Russia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of Assembly, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees a right of peaceful assembly, has recently clashed with ...

Human Rights, the Environment and Mining: Holding Transnational Corporations Accountable

Peru, Business and Human Rights, Environment, Right to Food and Water, Right to Health

Litigation that tests the division between corporate and state human rights obligations, and the synergies between ...

Freedom of Speech or Enabling a Right to Insult? The Australian Debate over Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975

Australia, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

With a rise in the Neo-Right worldwide, we see the fear of the foreigner and the blaming of refugees and welfare ...

A ‘state-generated’ maid? – care workers in the South Korea

South Korea, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Although jobs of ‘formal’ caregivers have been created by laws and Government intervention, their wages are set to ...

About Abortion (with Carol Sanger)

United States of America, Abortion, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Since the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade, abortion has been legal in the United States. But terminating ...

Has India’s employment guarantee programme led to transformative gender equality?

India, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In the 2017-18 budget, the Government of India allocated roughly 7.4 billion USD towards the Mahatma Gandhi ...

The European Court of Human Rights and the Emerging Right to Health

European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Health, Right to Life

The ‘right to health’ is, perhaps unsurprisingly, absent from the European Convention on Human Rights. In a number ...

Rights for Victims of Domestic Violence: Offering Security Through Workplace Protection in Australia

Australia, Gender, Labour Rights

How can domestic violence spill over into the workplace? Most Australian women who report experiencing domestic ...

‘You work like a girl’: The fragmentation of work through the lens of gender and class

Labour law scholars long for the days of the "Standard employment relationship" (SER), which presented a ...