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Right to a Better World: Comprehensive Sexuality Education

Right to a Better World: Comprehensive Sexuality Education

Children's Rights, Gender, Right to Education, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used ...

Right to a Better World: Contraception

Right to a Better World: Contraception

Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used ...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion of Equality

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion of Equality

United States of America, US Supreme Court, Judges' Legacy, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion

When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September, the U.S. Supreme Court lost one of its last remaining ...

Right to a Better World: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

Right to a Better World: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used ...

UK’s ‘no notice’ immigration policy unlawfully interfered with the right to access to justice, holds Court of Appeal

UK’s ‘no notice’ immigration policy unlawfully interfered with the right to access to justice, holds Court of Appeal

United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Immigration and Asylum

Until March 2019, the UK operated an immigration policy – set out in Chapter 60 of the General Instructions to ...

The UK’s Overseas Operations Bill: licence to kill?

The UK’s Overseas Operations Bill: licence to kill?

United Kingdom, Conflict and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right against Torture

The UK Government is seeking to pass a new legislation that would impede prosecutions against British troops for ...

A historical precedent: IACtHR recognizes breach of the right to equality and non-discrimination in the enjoyment of a socioeconomic right on intersectional grounds of gender, poverty and race in Fireworks Factory case

A historical precedent: IACtHR recognizes breach of the right to equality and non-discrimination in the enjoyment of a socioeconomic right on intersectional grounds of gender, poverty and race in Fireworks Factory case

Brazil, Children's Rights, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In July 2019, I wrote a blog post introducing the main arguments presented to the Inter-American Court of Human ...

The Early Years: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Breaks the Cage [Blog Series on US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

The Early Years: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Breaks the Cage [Blog Series on US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

United States of America, Gender, Judges' Legacy, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In 1972, the year I was born, a young law professor became the founding director of the ACLU Women’s Rights ...

Introduction: The “Notorious R.B.G.” [Blog Series: The Legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Introduction: The “Notorious R.B.G.” [Blog Series: The Legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

United States of America, Gender, Judges' Legacy, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

On September 18, 2020, the first evening of the Jewish New Year holiday, Rosh Hashanah, U.S. Supreme Court Justice ...

Jammu and Kashmir Media Policy 2020: A Veil Covering Freedoms

Jammu and Kashmir Media Policy 2020: A Veil Covering Freedoms

India, Environment, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

Through an order dated 15th May 2020, the Jammu and Kashmir Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) ...

On the grounds of sex’: SCOTUS brings sexual orientation within the ambit of Title VII

On the grounds of sex’: SCOTUS brings sexual orientation within the ambit of Title VII

United States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual Orientation

On June 15 2020, the US Supreme Court decided in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights ...

Kenyan Lessons on the right to education as a human right amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic

Kenyan Lessons on the right to education as a human right amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic

Kenya, Children's Rights, COVID-19, Right to Education

In BPA v Directors, Brookhouse Schools, a group of parents ofminors at Brookhouse Schools, a private school, ...

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