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Widening the class of complainants and respondents under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013

Widening the class of complainants and respondents under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013

India, Labour Rights, Sexual Harassment

The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, (‘POSH Act’) was ...

Advancing Environmental Justice: The Supreme Court of Kenya holds State Agencies Accountable for Environmental Harm in Owino-Uhuru case

Advancing Environmental Justice: The Supreme Court of Kenya holds State Agencies Accountable for Environmental Harm in Owino-Uhuru case

Kenya, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Environment, Human Dignity, Right to healthy environment, Role of the Judiciary, Socio-Economic Rights, Standard of Review

On 6th December 2024, the Supreme Court of Kenya affirmed the constitutional rights to a Clean and Healthy ...

Unraveling Rights: The Struggle for Freedom of Movement Among Syrian Refugees in Türkiye

Unraveling Rights: The Struggle for Freedom of Movement Among Syrian Refugees in Türkiye

Syria, Turkey, Freedom of Movement, Gender Equality, International Human Rights, Refugee Convention, Socio-Economic Rights

Over the past decade, Türkiye has tightened some of its policies concerning Syrian refugees. Among the most ...

Application of the ‘Secretary Problem’ in Transitional Justice: A Mathematical Approach to Optimize the Selection of High-Responsibility Individuals in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace

Application of the ‘Secretary Problem’ in Transitional Justice: A Mathematical Approach to Optimize the Selection of High-Responsibility Individuals in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace

Colombia, Conflict and Human Rights, Criminal Justice, International Human Rights, Procedural Justice, Transitional Justice

Due to its inherently temporary nature, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) must prosecute the most ...

Plight of the Disappeared – Is the Epidemic of Enforced Disappearances Finally Over?

Plight of the Disappeared – Is the Epidemic of Enforced Disappearances Finally Over?

Bangladesh, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, International Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Procedural Justice

Imagine being picked up by a group of law enforcement officials in plain clothing and getting thrown in the back ...

Germany’s New Gender Self-Determination Act: Advances and Challenges

Germany’s New Gender Self-Determination Act: Advances and Challenges

Germany, Gender Equality, Gender identity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Free Personal Development, Transgender rights

The Gender Self-determination Act seeks to put Germany on a progressive path by replacing current expensive and ...

Why the Kenyan Supreme Court erred in limiting justiciability of rights through the Limitation of Actions Act: the Zehrabanu Appeal

Why the Kenyan Supreme Court erred in limiting justiciability of rights through the Limitation of Actions Act: the Zehrabanu Appeal

African Charter on Human and People's Rights, Kenya, Enforcement of Human Rights

The Supreme Curt of Kenya (SCORK has through Zehrabanu Janmohamed and Another v Nathaniel K. Lagat 4 Others, found ...

#CancelCoal: South African Youth Successfully Lead Climate Case Against Proposed Coal-Fired Power Station

#CancelCoal: South African Youth Successfully Lead Climate Case Against Proposed Coal-Fired Power Station

South Africa, Children's Rights, Environment, Role of the Judiciary

On 4 December 2024, the High Court of Pretoria in South Africa (SA) handed down a landmark judgment in the “Cancel ...

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Evolving Jurisprudence on Cyberviolence against Women at the European Court of Human Rights

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Evolving Jurisprudence on Cyberviolence against Women at the European Court of Human Rights

European Convention on Human Rights, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Gender Equality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Private Life

On 3 December 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (Court) delivered judgment in MŞD v Romania, its third ...

At 75 the Commonwealth Promises to Protect Media Freedom. But How?

At 75 the Commonwealth Promises to Protect Media Freedom. But How?

Commonwealth, Freedom of the Press, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa in late October 2024, leaders of the 56 member ...

A Climate Policy Under Fire: Germany’s NECP Lawsuit and EU Climate Governance

A Climate Policy Under Fire: Germany’s NECP Lawsuit and EU Climate Governance

European Union, Germany, Climate Change, Environment

The Environmental Action Germany (Deutsche Umwelthilfe, ‘DUH’), a non-governmental environmental and consumer ...

Caste Discrimination in Indian Prisons Case – Part 2 (Discrimination against Denotified Tribes)

Caste Discrimination in Indian Prisons Case – Part 2 (Discrimination against Denotified Tribes)

India, Supreme Court of India, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

This blog continues Part 1 of the exploration of Caste Discrimination in Indian Prisons Case (Sukanya Shantha v. ...

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