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The Indian Supreme Court’s New Report on Caste: What Is It About and Why It Matters?

The Indian Supreme Court’s New Report on Caste: What Is It About and Why It Matters?

India, Supreme Court of India, Caste, Constitutions and Human Rights, Role of the Judiciary

The Indian Supreme Court’s in-house think tank, the Centre for Research and Planning, recently released its ...

Language Is the Homeland: Bavaria’s Linguistic Heritage and the Right to Development

Language Is the Homeland: Bavaria’s Linguistic Heritage and the Right to Development

Bavaria, Council of Europe, Germany, Language, Minority Rights, Rights of the Child

In November 2025, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development conducted an official country ...

Reassessing Corporate Due Diligence Standards in Dual-Use Technology Supply Chains

Reassessing Corporate Due Diligence Standards in Dual-Use Technology Supply Chains

Pakistan, United Nations, Business and Human Rights, Human Dignity, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, , Standard of Review, Substantive Equality

Amnesty International’s recent report “Shadows of Control” documents how companies from Germany, the UAE, Canada, ...

The SNAP Crisis and Socio-Economic Rights: Does it matter that the United States has not ratified the ICESCR?

The SNAP Crisis and Socio-Economic Rights: Does it matter that the United States has not ratified the ICESCR?

United States of America, Human Dignity, Intersectionality, Right to Food and Water, , Socio-Economic Rights, Standard of Review

On 24 October 2025, during a government shutdown, the US Department of Agriculture announced that it would halt ...

In Re Saranda Wildlife Sanctuary: Forests v. Forest Dwellers?

In Re Saranda Wildlife Sanctuary: Forests v. Forest Dwellers?

India, Environment, Group rights, Property

On 13 November 2025, the Supreme Court of India in In Re Saranda Wildlife Sanctuary ordered the State of Jharkhand ...

Balancing the Protection of Witnesses in English Criminal Law with the Right to a Fair Trial

Balancing the Protection of Witnesses in English Criminal Law with the Right to a Fair Trial

European Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Human Dignity, Role of the Judiciary, , Standard of Review

Like other national and international criminal justice systems, English criminal law has incorporated measures to ...

The Codification of Gender Apartheid under International Law and the Evolutive Significance of ‘Apartheid’

The Codification of Gender Apartheid under International Law and the Evolutive Significance of ‘Apartheid’

Afghanistan, Gender Apartheid, Gender Equality, Gender Persecution, International Criminal Law

Discussions and advocacy movements to codify the concept of ‘gender apartheid’ under international law have gained ...

Climate Change and the Erosion of Children’s Rights in Bangladesh

Climate Change and the Erosion of Children’s Rights in Bangladesh

Bangladesh, Children's Rights, Climate Change, Environment, Human Dignity, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Right to healthy environment, Right to Life, , Substantive Equality

In 2023, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued General Comment No. 26, recognising climate change and ...

The First Gender Persecution Conviction at the International Criminal Court

The First Gender Persecution Conviction at the International Criminal Court

International Criminal Court, Sudan, Crimes Against Humanity, Gender justice, Gender Persecution, International Criminal Law

On 6 October 2025, the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Ali Muhammad Ali ...

The CJEU ruling on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Opening a door for progressive social experimentation? (Part II)

The CJEU ruling on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Opening a door for progressive social experimentation? (Part II)

Council of Europe, Court of Justice of the European Union, Denmark, , European Union, Labour Rights

On 11 November 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU/Court) delivered the anxiously awaited ...

The CJEU ruling on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: opening a door for progressive social experimentation? (Part I)

The CJEU ruling on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: opening a door for progressive social experimentation? (Part I)

Council of Europe, Court of Justice of the European Union, Denmark, , European Union, Labour Rights

On 11 November 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU/Court) delivered the anxiously awaited ...

Positive and Negative Rights Strike Again: Mathur v. Ontario

Positive and Negative Rights Strike Again: Mathur v. Ontario

Canada, Climate Change, Climate justice, Positive Duties, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

The distinction between positive and negative rights continues to complicate, and defeat, constitutional ...

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