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Fascination with Kenya’s Presidency has Overlooked the Real Changes Happening Locally

Fascination with Kenya’s Presidency has Overlooked the Real Changes Happening Locally

Kenya, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Vote

Kenya’s 2010 constitution replaced the country’s centralised governance structure with one of the world’s most ...

Tackling FGM In India: Is It Time For A New Law?

Tackling FGM In India: Is It Time For A New Law?

India, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion

According to a study conducted on members of the Bohra community in India, a startling 75% of the daughters of the ...

A Step Closer to Equality: LGBTQ+ Rights in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

A Step Closer to Equality: LGBTQ+ Rights in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

American Convention on Human Rights, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual Orientation

In a landmark advisory opinion delivered on January 9th, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights stated that the ...

CCTV Cameras in Classrooms: The Conflict between Security and Privacy

CCTV Cameras in Classrooms: The Conflict between Security and Privacy

India, Right to Education, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Privacy

The Chief Minister of Delhi recently announced his decision to install CCTV cameras in all public schools, and to ...

Taking the backseat? Strategic utilisation of human rights in the implementation of SDGs

Taking the backseat? Strategic utilisation of human rights in the implementation of SDGs

United Nations, Business and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Environment, Socio-Economic Rights

Human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are closely entwined. The text of the Agenda declares ...

The Legality of Unilateral Child Conversion in Malaysia

The Legality of Unilateral Child Conversion in Malaysia

Malaysia, Children's Rights, Right to Freedom of Religion

For Indira Gandhi, whose husband converted to Islam and attempted to unilaterally convert their daughter as well, ...

First Criminal Conviction under Belgium’s Anti-Sexism Act

First Criminal Conviction under Belgium’s Anti-Sexism Act

Belgium, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

A man who made sexist remarks to a female police officer was sentenced to pay a €3,000 fine and became the first ...

Australia’s Legal Responsibility for the Refugees and Asylum Seekers it has left Languishing in Offshore Detention

Australia’s Legal Responsibility for the Refugees and Asylum Seekers it has left Languishing in Offshore Detention

Australia, Immigration and Asylum

With Australia’s recent election to the UN Human Rights Council, it is important that the international community ...

The bogey of judicial overreach in South Africa: A note on Economic Freedom Fighters v Speaker of the National Assembly

The bogey of judicial overreach in South Africa: A note on Economic Freedom Fighters v Speaker of the National Assembly

South Africa, Constitutions and Human Rights, Role of the Judiciary

Discussions over the contours of the separation of powers principle in South Africa continue to smoulder. During ...

The Supreme Court of Canada Expands the Scope of Employment Discrimination

The Supreme Court of Canada Expands the Scope of Employment Discrimination

Canada, Business and Human Rights, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In December 2017 the Supreme Court of Canada released an important decision regarding the scope of discrimination ...

Indian Supreme Court’s stay on the banning of ‘Padmavat’: Hopes and Concerns

Indian Supreme Court’s stay on the banning of ‘Padmavat’: Hopes and Concerns

India, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

By an interim order, a three judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court has stayed the ban imposed on the exhibition ...

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