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Democratic Backsliding vs the Diagonal Accountability Branch: Lessons from the Kimmel Episode — Part II

Democratic Backsliding vs the Diagonal Accountability Branch: Lessons from the Kimmel Episode — Part II

United States, United States of America, Private Actors, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

When Jimmy Kimmel cracked a joke about Charlie Kirk’s murderer, he likely never imagined that this routine act of ...

Democratic Backsliding vs the Diagonal Accountability Branch: Lessons from the Kimmel Episode — Part I

Democratic Backsliding vs the Diagonal Accountability Branch: Lessons from the Kimmel Episode — Part I

United States, United States of America, Private Actors, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

When Jimmy Kimmel cracked a joke about Charlie Kirk’s murderer, he likely never imagined that this routine act of ...

Aligning AI Procurement with Human Rights: A Call for Proactive Governance

Aligning AI Procurement with Human Rights: A Call for Proactive Governance

United Nations, Artificial Intelligence, Business and Human Rights, Global Governance, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy

In June 2025, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights released a landmark report titled “Artificial ...

Constitutional Liberty under UAPA: Pre-Trial Punishment and the Criminalisation of Dissent in India

Constitutional Liberty under UAPA: Pre-Trial Punishment and the Criminalisation of Dissent in India

India, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial

India’s Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (“UAPA”) was originally enacted to regulate “unlawful ...

Presumed Misuse, Denied Rights: Invisible Disabilities and the Structural Effects of Suspicion under Indian Law

Presumed Misuse, Denied Rights: Invisible Disabilities and the Structural Effects of Suspicion under Indian Law

India, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Public controversies in India reignited longstanding anxieties around the integrity of affirmative action ...

ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States with Respect to Climate Change: Human Rights-Based Reflections on Due Diligence

ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States with Respect to Climate Change: Human Rights-Based Reflections on Due Diligence

International Court of Justice, advisory opinion, Climate Change, human rights due diligence, international law obligations

I. INTRODUCTION The much anticipated ICJ Advisory Opinion of 23 July 2025 was historic in its affirmation of ...

When Context Trumps History: The Malema Case and Hate Speech Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa

When Context Trumps History: The Malema Case and Hate Speech Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa

South Africa, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

Hate speech law in South Africa sits uneasily at the intersection of history and context. Nowhere is this clearer ...

Need for a Benignant View for Women’s Protection vis-a-vis Sexual Harassment in Advocacy

Need for a Benignant View for Women’s Protection vis-a-vis Sexual Harassment in Advocacy

India, Labour Rights, Sexual Harassment

Recently, UNS Women Advocates’ Association filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition in Bombay High Court ...

Locating the recognition or unrecognition of Arabic language in South Sudan’s legal frameworks

Locating the recognition or unrecognition of Arabic language in South Sudan’s legal frameworks

Namibia, South Sudan, Access to Justice, ICCPR

Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) – acceded to by South Sudan in ...

Is Bangladesh Violating Its ICCPR Obligations?

Is Bangladesh Violating Its ICCPR Obligations?

Bangladesh, ICCPR, Right to Freedom of Assembly, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Protest

On 29 August 2025, Bangladesh witnessed an incident where a former Minister, Abdul Latif Siddique, Dhaka ...

IACtHR Recognises the ‘Right to Care’: What it Means and Why it Matters for Women’s Human Rights

IACtHR Recognises the ‘Right to Care’: What it Means and Why it Matters for Women’s Human Rights

Argentina, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Gender Equality, right to care, Right to Health, structural injustice, Women's Rights

In a historic decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) responding to a request from Argentina, ...

Big Tech, the Supreme Court and Brazil’s New Era of Civil Liability

Big Tech, the Supreme Court and Brazil’s New Era of Civil Liability

Brazil, Cybersecurity, interp, Online abuse, Role of the Judiciary, Technology and human rights

Brazil is at a crucial crossroads in the debate over the civil liability of providers of digital applications. ...

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