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The Utility of the UN Report on Iran and Amini’s Legacy for the Advancement of Women’s Rights

The Utility of the UN Report on Iran and Amini’s Legacy for the Advancement of Women’s Rights

Iran, Gender, Human Dignity, Intersectionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, , Substantive Equality

In Iran and across the globe, the name Mahsa Amini has become synonymous with the suppression of women’s rights in ...

Beyond Bogus Self-Employment: the EU Platform Work Directive’s Presumption of Employment, and its Implications for the Future of Employment Rights in the Gig Economy

Beyond Bogus Self-Employment: the EU Platform Work Directive’s Presumption of Employment, and its Implications for the Future of Employment Rights in the Gig Economy

European Union, Business and Human Rights, Labour Rights, Socio-Economic Rights

On 11 March 2024, the European Union’s employment and social affairs ministers voted to adopt the Platform Work ...

Role of Minimum Wages in Recognition of Unpaid Domestic Care Work in India: A Sign of Progress?

Role of Minimum Wages in Recognition of Unpaid Domestic Care Work in India: A Sign of Progress?

India, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In February 2024, the Indian Supreme Court in Arvind Kumar Pandey v Girish Pandey [2024], stated that the ‘deemed ...

Curtains over Connectivity: A Peek Behind India’s Opaque Internet Shutdown Orders

Curtains over Connectivity: A Peek Behind India’s Opaque Internet Shutdown Orders

India, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

The case of Anuradha Bhasin v Union of India [2020] set a precedent that requires the publication of internet ...

R v Michaela Community Schools Trust: Human Rights and Freedom of Religion in the UK

R v Michaela Community Schools Trust: Human Rights and Freedom of Religion in the UK

European Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion

The relationship between Islam, religious freedom, and human rights has long been a subject of debate in Britain. ...

Extraterritorial Human Rights and Climate Change at the ECtHR: The End of the Road?

Extraterritorial Human Rights and Climate Change at the ECtHR: The End of the Road?

European Convention on Human Rights, Access to Justice, Children's Rights, Climate Change, Environment, Human Dignity, Right to Life, Right to Privacy, Socio-Economic Rights

On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or Court) handed down its judgment in the case of ...

Military Justice in the Spotlight (Again): R v Edwards in the Supreme Court of Canada

Military Justice in the Spotlight (Again): R v Edwards in the Supreme Court of Canada

Canada, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Role of the Judiciary

Military justice is in the spotlight again with the Supreme Court of Canada’s judgment in R v Edwards [2024] SCC ...

Lahore High Court Strikes Down the Discriminatory Gender-Based Age Difference in the Definition of ‘Child’ in the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929

Lahore High Court Strikes Down the Discriminatory Gender-Based Age Difference in the Definition of ‘Child’ in the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929

Pakistan, child marriage, Children's Rights, Gender Equality, Legislative Reform, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary

About 18.3% of girls and 4.7% of boys in Pakistan are married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a human ...

The Rebellious Act of Consuming Meat in India: Non-vegetarianism and Taboo

The Rebellious Act of Consuming Meat in India: Non-vegetarianism and Taboo

India, Constitutions and Human Rights, Cultural rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Food and Water, Right to Privacy, Socio-Economic Rights

Food-delivery company Zomato recently came up with an “all-vegetarian fleet policy” wherein vegetarian food would ...

Can CEDAW address the issue of Gender-based Poverty in Urban Areas?

Can CEDAW address the issue of Gender-based Poverty in Urban Areas?

Convention on Discrimination against Women, North Macedonia

By 2050, 66 per cent of the world’s population is projected to live in urban areas, and UN Women estimates that ...

Bringing the Right to Strike Home: Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer – Part 2

Bringing the Right to Strike Home: Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer – Part 2

European Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, , Standard of Review

The first part of this blog outlined the facts and decision in the Supreme Court case, Secretary of State for ...

Bringing the Right to Strike Home: Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer – Part 1

Bringing the Right to Strike Home: Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer – Part 1

European Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, , Standard of Review

Individual strikers are protected from dismissal where they are dismissed for participating in ‘protected’ (i.e ...

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