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Facial Recognition Technology: The High Court’s flawed approach to information privacy

Facial Recognition Technology: The High Court’s flawed approach to information privacy

European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Privacy

In September 2019, the English High Court ruled the use of automated facial recognition technology (AFR) by South ...

A Breakthrough for Language Rights in Northern Ireland

A Breakthrough for Language Rights in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Following the collapse of the power-sharing coalition led by the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin, Northern ...

The Human Right to Belong: Indigenous rights and sovereignty in Australia

The Human Right to Belong: Indigenous rights and sovereignty in Australia

Australia, Immigration and Asylum

In 2019, the Minister of Immigration tried to deport two Aboriginal men from Australia. One was born in Papua New ...

High Court of Australia delivers landmark ruling that Indigenous Australians cannot be deported

High Court of Australia delivers landmark ruling that Indigenous Australians cannot be deported

Australia, Immigration and Asylum

On 11 February 2020, the High Court of Australia (HCA) delivered a landmark judgment in which it ruled that ...

Vote, But You Cannot Verify: The Namibian Supreme Court’s Presidential Election Decision

Vote, But You Cannot Verify: The Namibian Supreme Court’s Presidential Election Decision

Namibia, Right to Vote

On 5 February 2020, the judgement of Panduleni Itula, concerning the constitutionality of using electronic voting ...

Dilution of the Presumption of Innocence Principle in India

Dilution of the Presumption of Innocence Principle in India

India, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial

In two cases decided in 2019, the Bombay and Calcutta High Courts adopted diverging positions regarding the ...

Supreme Court of Sri Lanka Recognises Custodial Death as a Violation of the Right to Life

Supreme Court of Sri Lanka Recognises Custodial Death as a Violation of the Right to Life

Sri Lanka, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Life

In the landmark judgement of Rathnayake Tharanga Lakmali v Niroshan Abeykoon, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka held ...

Trumping Human Rights in the United States? The Commission on Unalienable Rights

Trumping Human Rights in the United States? The Commission on Unalienable Rights

United States of America, Constitutions and Human Rights

It is a common and very productive exercise, within contemporary philosophical or anthropological inquires, to ...

The Gambia v Myanmar: ICJ upholds the rights of Rohingyas

The Gambia v Myanmar: ICJ upholds the rights of Rohingyas

United Nations, Conflict and Human Rights, Gender

On January 23, the International Court of Justice announced the imposition of provisional measures against ...

The High Court of Malawi Nullifies May 2019 Presidential Election in Landmark Judgment

The High Court of Malawi Nullifies May 2019 Presidential Election in Landmark Judgment

Malawi, Right to Vote

In a landmark judgment, Saulos Klaus Chilima & Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera v Arthur Peter Mutharika & ...

A novel approach to Get refusal: the use of the offence of coercive control to obtain a religious divorce

A novel approach to Get refusal: the use of the offence of coercive control to obtain a religious divorce

United Kingdom, Gender, Right to Freedom of Religion

For Jewish women, obtaining a religious divorce (Get) can be life-changing. Women denied a Get are considered ...

Parliamentarians and Freedom of Religion or Belief

Parliamentarians and Freedom of Religion or Belief

Right to Freedom of Religion

Parliamentary networks for human rights are not unheard of. Several networks exist which draw attention to the ...

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