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From Torment to Tolerance and Acceptance to the Everyday: The Course of LGBT Equality in the UK

From Torment to Tolerance and Acceptance to the Everyday: The Course of LGBT Equality in the UK

United Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual Orientation

Colonisation is a dodgy business. Laws are mainstreamed across the Empire. So what did the Romans, keen to ...

Throwing Away The Key – Whole Life Sentences in the Court of Appeal

Throwing Away The Key – Whole Life Sentences in the Court of Appeal

United Kingdom, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right against Torture

Flouting the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Vinter v UK, the UK Court of Appeal has ...

Surrogacy, Same-sex Couples and the Privatisation of Regulation in Israel

Surrogacy, Same-sex Couples and the Privatisation of Regulation in Israel

Israel, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Sexual Orientation

On 30 January 2014, the Israeli Government published a draft bill on surrogacy. This proposed amendment to ...

The Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill: Can It Live Up to Its Name?

The Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill: Can It Live Up to Its Name?

South Africa, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

The Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill (WEGE) is currently before Parliament in South Africa. One of its ...

South African Judge Lays Down the Law on the Right to a Basic Education

South African Judge Lays Down the Law on the Right to a Basic Education

South Africa, Right to Education, Socio-Economic Rights

In previous posts, Chris McConnachie has documented the rise and the successes of South Africa’s emerging ...

The worrisome casual approach to (dis)enfranchisement

The worrisome casual approach to (dis)enfranchisement

United Kingdom, Right to Vote

Lord Phillips’ recent lecture at Oxford (entitled ‘The Elastic Jurisdiction of the European Court of Human ...

Women’s and children’s health: Evidence of impact of human rights

Women’s and children’s health: Evidence of impact of human rights

United Nations, Right to Health, Socio-Economic Rights

During 2011-13, I had the fortune to serve as a part-time Senior Human Rights Advisor to WHO Assistant ...

No Compromise on the Right to Adequate Housing: UN Condemnation of UK Austerity Measures

No Compromise on the Right to Adequate Housing: UN Condemnation of UK Austerity Measures

United Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic Rights

Statements made by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, following her visit to the UK in ...

Court of Appeal Affirms Ability to Pass Whole Life Tariffs for Murder

Court of Appeal Affirms Ability to Pass Whole Life Tariffs for Murder

United Kingdom, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right against Torture

A specially constituted five-member Court of Appeal has ruled unanimously in R v McLoughlin that the imposition of ...

Managing Secrecy: R (Miranda) v SSHD

Managing Secrecy: R (Miranda) v SSHD

United Kingdom, Counter-terrorism, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

Much has already been written about the implications of R (Miranda) v Secretary of State for the Home Department ...

South African Informal Traders Forum and Others v The City of Johannesburg and Others: A Promising Start by the South African Constitutional Court

South African Informal Traders Forum and Others v The City of Johannesburg and Others: A Promising Start by the South African Constitutional Court

South Africa, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic Rights

Departing sharply from its normal procedures, the South African Constitutional Court recently issued what we in ...

Lessons from Daimler

Lessons from Daimler

United States of America, Conflict and Human Rights

On January 14, 2014, as one of the first decisions of the new year, the United States Supreme Court held that ...

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