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Deprivation of Access to Shadow Libraries: Why the Delhi High Court’s Recent Order Dilutes Human Rights

Deprivation of Access to Shadow Libraries: Why the Delhi High Court’s Recent Order Dilutes Human Rights

India, Fair Dealing, Intellectual Property, Right to Information, Right to Technological and Scientific Progress, Socio-Economic Rights

On 19th August, 2025, the Delhi High Court passed an order in Elsevier v Alexandra Elbakyan (‘Elsevier case’) ...

The Disaster Management (Amendment) Act, 2025: A Critique from a Human Rights-Based Approach.

The Disaster Management (Amendment) Act, 2025: A Critique from a Human Rights-Based Approach.

India, Climate justice, Right to healthy environment, Right to Life

The Disaster Management (Amendment) Act, 2025, is a landmark legislation designed to enhance the capacity of the ...

AI, Surveillance and Privacy in India: Human Rights in the Age of Technology

AI, Surveillance and Privacy in India: Human Rights in the Age of Technology

India, Data Protection, Human Dignity, Right to Freedom of Association, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Privacy

In recent years, India has increasingly adopted artificial intelligence (AI) surveillance tools. This includes ...

Systemic racism: ECHR condemns France for discriminatory identity checks in one instance, but rejects five other applications

Systemic racism: ECHR condemns France for discriminatory identity checks in one instance, but rejects five other applications

ECHR, France, Civil and political rights, Criminal Process Rights, Procedural Justice, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In its decision in Seydi et autres v France, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has condemned France for ...

The Right to (Queer) Family in Indian Constitutional Law

The Right to (Queer) Family in Indian Constitutional Law

India, LGBTQI+ rights, Sexual Orientation

Courts in India welcomed Pride Month this year with two landmark judgments relating to the rights of individuals ...

For the People, By the State: Establishing a Permanent Government Attorney Service in Bangladesh to Ensure Human Rights and the Rule of Law

For the People, By the State: Establishing a Permanent Government Attorney Service in Bangladesh to Ensure Human Rights and the Rule of Law

Bangladesh, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Fair Trial, Role of the Judiciary, , Standard of Review

Government legal representation in Bangladesh’s courts remains inadequate due to a weak legal framework, ...

Revival of Measures to Expel Asylum-Seekers from the United States: Implications for Non-Refoulement Obligations

Revival of Measures to Expel Asylum-Seekers from the United States: Implications for Non-Refoulement Obligations

United States of America, Forced displacement, Immigration and Asylum, Non-refoulement, Rights of refugees

The Trump administration has expanded upon its initiatives to remove asylum-seekers and other individuals to third ...

Access to Justice: The U.S. Supreme Court Permits Prisoners to Challenge Injustices in State Post-Conviction Procedures

Access to Justice: The U.S. Supreme Court Permits Prisoners to Challenge Injustices in State Post-Conviction Procedures

United States of America, Criminal procedure, Due process, Law of evidence, Right to a fair trial, US Supreme Court

Access to post-conviction DNA testing and review of flawed science is critical for incarcerated people with ...

Detention in Armed Conflict: Exploring the complementarity between IHL and the Inter-American Human Rights System (Part II)

Detention in Armed Conflict: Exploring the complementarity between IHL and the Inter-American Human Rights System (Part II)

American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, International Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law

This blog is in two parts. In the first part of this analysis, I examined the Inter-American framework for the ...

Detention in Armed Conflict: Exploring the complementarity between IHL and the Inter-American Human Rights System (Part I)

Detention in Armed Conflict: Exploring the complementarity between IHL and the Inter-American Human Rights System (Part I)

American Convention on Human Rights, American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, International Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law

This two-part blog explores how International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL) ...

Legal recognition of a Ukrainian same-sex couple as a married relationship

Legal recognition of a Ukrainian same-sex couple as a married relationship

Ukraine, Constitutions and Human Rights, Rights of the family, Sexual Orientation

In June 2025, the Desnyanskyy local district court in Kyiv (‘the Court’) decided to recognise the fact of ...

The Risks of Resistance: Protestors Need a Torture-Free Trade Treaty

The Risks of Resistance: Protestors Need a Torture-Free Trade Treaty

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Ireland, United Nations, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, prohibition of torture, Right against Torture, Right to Protest

Dissent stands as a historical foundation for social change, but the practice often yields hostile opposition from ...

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