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The Aftermath of Mullin v. Doe: Better Protections Needed for Climate-Displaced Haitians

The Aftermath of Mullin v. Doe: Better Protections Needed for Climate-Displaced Haitians

Haiti, USA, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Haitian TPS, Immigration Law, Migration Policy, Temporary Protected Status

Last month, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Mullin v. Doe, permitting the Trump ...

“Government is not banning books”: book ban legislation makes its first appearance in Canada

“Government is not banning books”: book ban legislation makes its first appearance in Canada

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

The book-banning legislation crusade in the United States has officially spilled over into Canada with the passing ...

Beyond the Ranking: What India’s Fall in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index Reveals About the Limits of Constitutional Protection

Beyond the Ranking: What India’s Fall in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index Reveals About the Limits of Constitutional Protection

India, Freedom of expression, Freedom of the Press

India’s fall from 151st to 157th place in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index has reignited debate about the state ...

Cultural and Environmental Rights are Human Rights: Lessons from the Gunma Declaration on Heritage Ecosystems

Cultural and Environmental Rights are Human Rights: Lessons from the Gunma Declaration on Heritage Ecosystems

United Nations, Environment, Indigenous Rights

In February 2026, United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Alexandra Xanthaki, issued a ...

Doctrinal Incoherence and the Harm Principle in Parental Medical Decision-Making

Doctrinal Incoherence and the Harm Principle in Parental Medical Decision-Making

USA, child welfare, Chiles v Salazar, constitutional law, Conversion Therapy, Family law, gender-affirming care, harm principle, , LGBTQ Youth, medical decision-making, medical ethics, minors, Parental autonomy, Skrmetti, Supreme Court

Two recent Supreme Court decisions expose a fundamental instability in the constitutional framework governing ...

Twenty Years of OPCAT: Why Preventive Monitoring Must Evolve to Address New Forms of Vulnerability

Twenty Years of OPCAT: Why Preventive Monitoring Must Evolve to Address New Forms of Vulnerability

Convention Against Torture, Right against Torture, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Twenty years after the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT), ...

When Good Law Is Not Enough: Disability Employment in Uganda after the African Disability Protocol

When Good Law Is Not Enough: Disability Employment in Uganda after the African Disability Protocol

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Uganda, Disability, Enforcement of Human Rights, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In May 2024, the African Disability Protocol entered into force: the first continental treaty on the rights of ...

The Unseen Wounds: Psychological Injury and the Legal Fight Against Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh

The Unseen Wounds: Psychological Injury and the Legal Fight Against Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh

Bangladesh, Equal Protection, Forced Disappearance, Political Accountability, Right to Life

The first-ever Bangladesh law against enforced disappearance, the Enforced Disappearance Prevention and Redress ...

Niger’s New Anti-LGBTQIA+ Law Violates the Human Rights of Intersex Persons

Niger’s New Anti-LGBTQIA+ Law Violates the Human Rights of Intersex Persons

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, , Niger, United Nations, criminal law, LGBTQI+ rights, Right against Torture, torture convention

In February 2026, Niger’s military junta implemented a new Penal Code criminalising indecent, unnatural, and ...

What We Get Wrong About Consent: India’s ‘Promise-to-Marry’ Rape Jurisprudence

What We Get Wrong About Consent: India’s ‘Promise-to-Marry’ Rape Jurisprudence

India, Criminal Justice, Sexual Violence, Women's Rights

Indian criminal law, under s 69 of India’s new Penal Code (BNS), classifies ‘promise-to-marry’ sexual intercourse ...

Due Diligence in the Age of Government-Deployed AI

Due Diligence in the Age of Government-Deployed AI

International Law, Artificial Intelligence, Due Diligence

As artificial intelligence systems are increasingly embedded into government decision-making - from welfare ...

The Violations of the European Convention on Human Rights in the Context of Human-AI Relations

The Violations of the European Convention on Human Rights in the Context of Human-AI Relations

European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Artificial Intelligence, Right to Private and Family Life

As new “social players”, AI companions interact with people in ways that closely resemble human relationships, ...

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