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Ready to Learn?

Ready to Learn?

South Africa, Right to Education, Role of the Judiciary, Socio-Economic Rights

South Africa's Legal Resources Centre (LRC) launched a new book—Ready to Learn? A Legal Resource for Realising the ...

Same Script, Different Cast: A Tale of Zambia’s Constitutional Making Process

Same Script, Different Cast: A Tale of Zambia’s Constitutional Making Process

Zambia, Constitutions and Human Rights

On the 24th of October, Zambia celebrated its 49th year of Independence from British colonial rule. While Zambia ...

Same Script, Different Cast: A Tale of Zambia's Constitutional Making Process

Same Script, Different Cast: A Tale of Zambia's Constitutional Making Process

Zambia, Constitutions and Human Rights

On the 24th of October, Zambia celebrated its 49th year of Independence from British colonial rule. While Zambia ...

Men and gender based violence: part of the problem, but also the solution?

Men and gender based violence: part of the problem, but also the solution?

United Kingdom, Gender

Universities may well create the future leaders of our governments, economies, and communities—they are places of ...

Unpaid Interns in the New York Courts: Time to Start Spreading the News?

Unpaid Interns in the New York Courts: Time to Start Spreading the News?

United States of America, Labour Rights

Seen most cynically, employers deploy the label “intern” to give the impression that worker protection laws do not ...

European Court of Human Rights Says Dismissal of HIV-positive Employee is Incompatible with the Convention

European Court of Human Rights Says Dismissal of HIV-positive Employee is Incompatible with the Convention

European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In the case of I.B. v. Greece, the European Court of Human Rights held that the dismissal of an HIV-positive ...

Marikana Funding Decision – A Victory for Justice, Fairness and Equality

Marikana Funding Decision – A Victory for Justice, Fairness and Equality

South Africa, Access to Justice

In the wake of the Marikana tragedy, during which 40 striking mineworkers were shot and killed by the South ...

UN Resolution on Women’s Involvement in Conflict-Prevention: a Move Towards Participative Equality for Women in Conflict Zones

UN Resolution on Women’s Involvement in Conflict-Prevention: a Move Towards Participative Equality for Women in Conflict Zones

United Nations, Conflict and Human Rights, Gender

Earlier this month, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2122, designed to highlight the ...

Wedding Crashers in Canberra?

Wedding Crashers in Canberra?

Australia, Sexual Orientation

The Australian Capital Territory made Australian history this week as the first Australian jurisdiction to provide ...

Bridging The Divide? Integrating the Functions of National Equality Bodies and National Human Rights Institutions in the EU

Bridging The Divide? Integrating the Functions of National Equality Bodies and National Human Rights Institutions in the EU

European Union, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

National equality bodies (NEBs) and national human rights institutions (NHRIs) play important roles in promoting ...

New Bill Shifts Focus to Survivors of Human Trafficking

New Bill Shifts Focus to Survivors of Human Trafficking

Scotland, Immigration and Asylum, Labour Rights

Earlier this year, I interviewed a group of young Bangladeshi men who had been trafficked into Scotland to work in ...

The Tasmanian Dams Case, 30 Years On – Unfulfilled Promises

The Tasmanian Dams Case, 30 Years On – Unfulfilled Promises

Australia, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

The landmark Australian Tasmanian Dams case celebrated its 30th anniversary in August 2013. This case was a ...

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