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Grindr goes to Court (Part II): Individuals’ HIV Status and the Right to Private Life

Grindr goes to Court (Part II): Individuals’ HIV Status and the Right to Private Life

ECHR, United Kingdom, Data Protection, Positive Duties, Private Actors, Proportionality, Right to Privacy, Right to Private Life, Role of the Judiciary

Part I of this blog examined the protection of an individual’s HIV status under the UK’s data protection regime in ...

Grindr goes to Court (Part I): UK Data Protection Law and the Disclosure of Individuals’ HIV Status

Grindr goes to Court (Part I): UK Data Protection Law and the Disclosure of Individuals’ HIV Status

United Kingdom, Data Protection, Right to Privacy

A case brought in April 2024 before the High Court of England and Wales alleges that Grindr shared sensitive ...

Constitutionalising Climate Action: India’s Supreme Court Decision on the Protection against Climate Change

Constitutionalising Climate Action: India’s Supreme Court Decision on the Protection against Climate Change

India, Climate Change, Constitutions and Human Rights, Environment, Right to healthy environment, Right to Life

Should climate change safeguards be enshrined as a human right? India’s Supreme Court seems to have resounded a ...

Amnesty in Spain: Union through Reconciliation

Amnesty in Spain: Union through Reconciliation

Spain, Access to Justice, Conflict and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Role of the Judiciary

On 30 May 2024, despite its rejection by the upper chamber, the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament passed the ...

The Legal Protections of Displaced Rohingya in Malaysia

The Legal Protections of Displaced Rohingya in Malaysia

Malaysia, Children's Rights, Public International Law, Refugee Convention, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Seek Asylum, Women's Rights

The alleged genocide of the Muslim minority Rohingya in Buddhist majority Myanmar has precipitated the largest ...

Wrongly Denied – The Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage in Hong Kong

Wrongly Denied – The Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage in Hong Kong

Hong Kong, Gender Equality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, Same-sex marriage

In recent years, Hong Kong has experienced an unprecedented bloom of local jurisprudence that upheld spousal ...

Periods, Climate, and the Politics of Sustainability

Periods, Climate, and the Politics of Sustainability

Nepal, Climate Change, Gender, menstrual health, Right to Food and Water, right to sanitation, Women's Rights

Discussion on sustainable menstrual health management, without adequately considering lived realities compounded ...

The Principle of Systemic Integration at the ECtHR after Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

The Principle of Systemic Integration at the ECtHR after Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

European Convention on Human Rights, Access to Justice, Climate Change, Environment, Human Dignity, Right to Privacy, Socio-Economic Rights, Standard of Review

On April 9 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the Court’) issued a landmark ruling in the case of ...

Mapping the global crackdown on LGBTIQ rights

Mapping the global crackdown on LGBTIQ rights

Ghana, Iraq, Russia, Uganda, United States of America, Children's Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death Penalty, Gender, Gender identity, Human Dignity, Right against Torture, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Assembly, Right to Freedom of Association, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Health, Right to Life, Right to Privacy, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Sexual Orientation

On 17 May 1990, the World Health Organisation (WHO) removed homosexuality from the International Classification of ...

The Utility of the UN Report on Iran and Amini’s Legacy for the Advancement of Women’s Rights

The Utility of the UN Report on Iran and Amini’s Legacy for the Advancement of Women’s Rights

Iran, Gender, Human Dignity, Intersectionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, , Substantive Equality

In Iran and across the globe, the name Mahsa Amini has become synonymous with the suppression of women’s rights in ...

Beyond Bogus Self-Employment: the EU Platform Work Directive’s Presumption of Employment, and its Implications for the Future of Employment Rights in the Gig Economy

Beyond Bogus Self-Employment: the EU Platform Work Directive’s Presumption of Employment, and its Implications for the Future of Employment Rights in the Gig Economy

European Union, Business and Human Rights, Labour Rights, Socio-Economic Rights

On 11 March 2024, the European Union’s employment and social affairs ministers voted to adopt the Platform Work ...

Role of Minimum Wages in Recognition of Unpaid Domestic Care Work in India: A Sign of Progress?

Role of Minimum Wages in Recognition of Unpaid Domestic Care Work in India: A Sign of Progress?

India, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In February 2024, the Indian Supreme Court in Arvind Kumar Pandey v Girish Pandey [2024], stated that the ‘deemed ...

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