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Workplace Sexual Harassment and Institutional Accountability : Why Does Sri Lanka’s New Sexual Harassment Case Matter?

Workplace Sexual Harassment and Institutional Accountability : Why Does Sri Lanka’s New Sexual Harassment Case Matter?

Sri Lanka, employment, Gender Based Violence, Gender Equality, human rights, workplace harassment

In 2024, Sexual Harassment was the second most reported crime in Sri Lanka and the “workplace” remainsprimary ...

Policing Protest in India: What the Supreme Court’s Response to the NEET Demonstrations Means for the Right to Peaceful Assembly

Policing Protest in India: What the Supreme Court’s Response to the NEET Demonstrations Means for the Right to Peaceful Assembly

India, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Right to Freedom of Assembly, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

The nationwide protests that followed allegations of irregularities and paper leaks in India's National ...

Malaysian Federal Court Upholds Whipping as Constitutional in Helmi Anuar & Ors v PP

Malaysian Federal Court Upholds Whipping as Constitutional in Helmi Anuar & Ors v PP

Malaysia, Article 5, constitutional law, Federal Constitution, Federal Court, human rights, Judicial Deference, Judicial Review, Malaysian Law, Proportionality, Proportionality Test

In Helmi Anuar, the Malaysian Federal Court held that judicial whipping was constitutional, rejecting arguments ...

EU v Ukrainian Men: On the Way to Human Rights Violations

EU v Ukrainian Men: On the Way to Human Rights Violations

European Union, Ukraine, Asylum Law, Council of Europe, European Court of Human Rights, Migration Law, Refugee Protection, Temporary Protection, Ukrainian Refugees

On 15 July 2026, the European Union (EU) decided to continue supporting Ukraine by extending the temporary ...

Can an Algorithm Decide Who Is a Child? Facial Age Estimation and the Benefit of the Doubt at the UK Border

Can an Algorithm Decide Who Is a Child? Facial Age Estimation and the Benefit of the Doubt at the UK Border

United Kingdom, Children's Rights, Human Dignity, Immigration and Asylum,

From 2027, the UK Home Office plans to introduce facial age estimation technology at the border as an additional ...

Bangladesh’s ‘Gay Awakening Moment’: Section 377 and the Decriminalisation of Homosexuality as a Human Rights Obligation

Bangladesh’s ‘Gay Awakening Moment’: Section 377 and the Decriminalisation of Homosexuality as a Human Rights Obligation

Bangladesh, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, , LGBTQI+ rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Bangladesh is currently experiencing what can possibly be termed a “gay awakening moment”. Not because the country ...

Lest We Forget: The Gambian FGM Ban at the Supreme Court and Why Women’s Rights are at Stake

Lest We Forget: The Gambian FGM Ban at the Supreme Court and Why Women’s Rights are at Stake

Gambia, West Africa, Gender, Gender Equality, Human Dignity, Intersectionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, , Substantive Equality

There is a looming constitutional crisis and an atrocious legal battle unfolding in The Gambia, where the fate of ...

India’s Digital Censorship Architecture: How the 2026 IT Rule Amendments Betray the Constitutional Settlement of Shreya Singhal

India’s Digital Censorship Architecture: How the 2026 IT Rule Amendments Betray the Constitutional Settlement of Shreya Singhal

India, Digital Rights, Freedom of speech, ITRules2026, Section69A, Shreya Singhal

In March 2015, the Supreme Court of India in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India upheld Section 69A of the ...

Foreseeable, But Necessary? The High Court’s Narrow Defence of Live Facial Recognition

Foreseeable, But Necessary? The High Court’s Narrow Defence of Live Facial Recognition

United Kingdom, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Procedural Justice, Proportionality, Right to Privacy, rule of law

On 21 April 2026, the UK's High Court of Justice in Shaun Thompson and another v The Met Police Commissioner ...

Australia-Türkiye’s unique COP31 Presidency: Shaping the Future of UN Multilateralism

Australia-Türkiye’s unique COP31 Presidency: Shaping the Future of UN Multilateralism

International Law, Climate Change, COP31, Procedural Rules, UNFCCC

Anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to humankind. Since the United Nations Framework ...

Devastation for Haitians, Following Supreme Court Decision for Restrictive Immigration Policies on Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

Devastation for Haitians, Following Supreme Court Decision for Restrictive Immigration Policies on Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

USA, human rights, Immigration Law, TPS

Recent US Supreme Court decision on June 25, 2026, ruled in favour of Trump administration seeking to terminate ...

Seeing What the Law Cannot: Open-Source Investigation as a Missing Tool in Modern Slavery Enforcement

Seeing What the Law Cannot: Open-Source Investigation as a Missing Tool in Modern Slavery Enforcement

European Union, United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Forced Labour, Human Dignity, Labour Rights, Modern Slavery, , Standard of Review

In 2023, migrant workers from Nepal and Bangladesh claimed they had been trafficked to Malaysia and forced to work ...

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