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The 2019 Guiding Principles on the Right to Education: The Drafters’ Perspective

The 2019 Guiding Principles on the Right to Education: The Drafters’ Perspective

United Nations, Children's Rights, Right to Education

The Oxford Human Rights Hub in partnership with the Masters in International Human Rights Law at the Department ...

Cuts to the UN Human Rights Bodies? We Know What This Leads To

Cuts to the UN Human Rights Bodies? We Know What This Leads To

United Nations, Access to Justice

The global populist backlash against multilateralism and rights is reaching the UN treaty bodies. These ...

Dutch child labour due diligence law: a step towards mandatory human rights due diligence

Dutch child labour due diligence law: a step towards mandatory human rights due diligence

Netherlands, Labour Rights

On 14 May 2019, the Dutch Senate adopted the Child Labour Due Diligence Law [Wet zorgplicht kinderarbeid]. The law ...

Boris Johnson combats allegations of misconduct in public office

Boris Johnson combats allegations of misconduct in public office

United Kingdom, Brexit

Boris Johnson has been summoned to appear in the criminal courts: Is the case just a political stunt or ...

The entry of women into the legal profession under British colonial rule

The entry of women into the legal profession under British colonial rule

This year sees the centenary of the abolition of the legal barriers to women’s entry into the legal profession in ...

Stocker v Stocker: dictionaries, domestic violence, and defamation

Stocker v Stocker: dictionaries, domestic violence, and defamation

United Kingdom, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that a woman was not liable in defamation to her ex-husband for writing public ...

South African Supreme Court of Appeal Confirms Remedy of ‘Constitutional Remedy’ for Homeless People Whose Property is Destroyed by State

South African Supreme Court of Appeal Confirms Remedy of ‘Constitutional Remedy’ for Homeless People Whose Property is Destroyed by State

South Africa, Constitutions and Human Rights

On 3 April 2019, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down judgment in the matter of Ngomane ...

Brown v. Board of Education at 65: A Job Still Undone

Brown v. Board of Education at 65: A Job Still Undone

United States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

This month marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision ...

The Broad Regulation of Fake News Could Limit the Right to Freedom of Expression

The Broad Regulation of Fake News Could Limit the Right to Freedom of Expression

Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

Multiple actors from totalitarian states to extremist groups have been spreading ‘fake news’ for a very long time. ...

Kimathi and Others v Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Kimathi and Others v Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Kenya, United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Conflict and Human Rights

Kimathi and Others v Foreign & Commonwealth Office [2018] EWHC 2066 (also known as the ‘Mau Mau litigation’, ...

Inquérito do Supremo Tribunal Federal que investiga ‘fake news’ viola liberdade de expressão

Inquérito do Supremo Tribunal Federal que investiga ‘fake news’ viola liberdade de expressão

Em 14 de março, o Supremo Tribunal Federal abriu um inquérito sigiloso, de ofício, para investigar supostos crimes ...

Namibian Supreme Court finds that National Security Concerns do not Automatically Trump Free Speech

Namibian Supreme Court finds that National Security Concerns do not Automatically Trump Free Speech

Namibia, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

The Namibian Supreme Court’s decision in Director-General of the Namibian Central Intelligence Service Another v ...

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