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Learning Lessons from Litigators: Dealing with Non-Compliance

Learning Lessons from Litigators: Dealing with Non-Compliance

Constitutions and Human Rights, Role of the Judiciary

What if it becomes clear that the government or private provider of education is failing to comply with the ...

Gender Recognition, Self-Determination and Segregated Space

Gender Recognition, Self-Determination and Segregated Space

United Kingdom, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In July 2017, the Government announced a public consultation on legal gender recognition in the United Kingdom. In ...

Establishing a breach of Article 3 in medical cases: The ‘applicability’ of Strasbourg jurisprudence

Establishing a breach of Article 3 in medical cases: The ‘applicability’ of Strasbourg jurisprudence

European Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Immigration and Asylum, Right to Health, Right to Life

In EA & Ors (Article 3 medical cases – Paposhvili not applicable) [2017] UKUT 00445, the Upper Tribunal ...

Einarsson v Iceland: Worrying Implications for Discussing Rape Allegations on Social Media

Einarsson v Iceland: Worrying Implications for Discussing Rape Allegations on Social Media

European Convention on Human Rights, Gender, Right to Privacy

This post analyses Einarsson v Iceland, a defamation case in which a celebrity sued an Instagram user (‘X’) for ...

Retroactively Legalizing Illegal Settlements: What’s the ‘Greater Jerusalem’ Bill?

Retroactively Legalizing Illegal Settlements: What’s the ‘Greater Jerusalem’ Bill?

Israel, Conflict and Human Rights

With Israeli settlement expansion continuing unabated in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Israeli Knesset’s ...

Rompiendo el silencio y sosteniendo la mirada: Mujeres denunciantes de tortura sexual en Atenco en la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos

Rompiendo el silencio y sosteniendo la mirada: Mujeres denunciantes de tortura sexual en Atenco en la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos

American Convention on Human Rights, Gender, Right against Torture, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos emitirá, en los próximos meses, la sentencia del “Caso Atenco” ...

Breaking the Silence, Holding the Gaze: Women Denounce Sexual Torture in Atenco Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Breaking the Silence, Holding the Gaze: Women Denounce Sexual Torture in Atenco Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

American Convention on Human Rights, Gender, Right against Torture, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In the coming months, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will issue its decision on the Atenco case, ...

Levenstein: A Case to End Prescription of All Sexual Offences in South Africa

Levenstein: A Case to End Prescription of All Sexual Offences in South Africa

South Africa, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender

Widely considered the most progressive constitution in the world, the South African Constitution contains an ...

The Continuity of the Headscarf Controversy: From Politics to Fashion

The Continuity of the Headscarf Controversy: From Politics to Fashion

European Court of Justice, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion

This post highlights some difficulties raised by the 2017 rulings on headscarves at work by the European Court of ...

Tigere: Strategic Litigation for the Rights of Young People in the UK

Tigere: Strategic Litigation for the Rights of Young People in the UK

United Kingdom, Immigration and Asylum, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy

The case of R (Tigere) v Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills [2015 UKSC 57] was heard in the UK ...

De Groen v Gan Menaschem Hendon: Dismissal from Religious Schools

De Groen v Gan Menaschem Hendon: Dismissal from Religious Schools

United Kingdom, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion

To what extent can an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school go to protect its belief system and values? This was the ...

The need to consider victim’s voices in the sentencing of offenders: Director of Public Prosecutions v Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius

The need to consider victim’s voices in the sentencing of offenders: Director of Public Prosecutions v Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius

South Africa, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial

On 24 November 2017, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down a unanimous decision increasing ...

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