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How can we guard against AI-generated discrimination?

How can we guard against AI-generated discrimination?

European Union, United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Intersectionality, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy, , Technology and human rights

One of the most commonly expressed concerns about AI systems is their capacity to produce unfairly discriminatory ...

La Belgique criminalise l’écocide: une (imparfaite) première européenne

La Belgique criminalise l’écocide: une (imparfaite) première européenne

Belgium, European Union, International Criminal Court, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, United States, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Environment, Right to healthy environment

Le 22 février 2024, la Belgique a marqué l’histoire en adoptant un nouveau code pénal criminalisant l’écocide dans ...

Belgium Recognises the Crime of Ecocide: A (Lukewarm) European First

Belgium Recognises the Crime of Ecocide: A (Lukewarm) European First

Belgium, European Union, International Criminal Court, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, United States, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Environment, Right to healthy environment

On 22 February 2024, Belgium made history by adopting a new penal code that criminalises ‘ecocide’ at the national ...

Another Failed Execution: The United States’ Strained Relationship with the Right to Life

Another Failed Execution: The United States’ Strained Relationship with the Right to Life

United Nations, United States, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death Penalty, Human Dignity, Right to Life

At 73 years of age, Thomas Creech is Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate. He entered prison in 1974 and was ...

Beyond State Responsibility: The Trafigura Case and Corporate Accountability in Africa

Beyond State Responsibility: The Trafigura Case and Corporate Accountability in Africa

African Charter on Human and People's Rights, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Environment, Right to Health, Right to healthy environment, Right to Information, Right to Life,

Over the last few decades, there has been global recognition that corporations yield considerable social, economic ...

Women’s Invisible Labour, Kinkeeping and Care: Ireland’s 8 March Constitutional Referendum

Women’s Invisible Labour, Kinkeeping and Care: Ireland’s 8 March Constitutional Referendum

Ireland, United Nations, Children's Rights, Disability, Gender, Role of the Judiciary, Socio-Economic Rights, Substantive Equality

On International Women’s Day, Ireland will hold votes on two proposed changes to Article 41 of the Constitution. ...

Coming of Age: The Establishment of 18 as the Legal Minimum Age for Marriage

Coming of Age: The Establishment of 18 as the Legal Minimum Age for Marriage

United Nations, Children's Rights, Gender

Recent reports from the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) highlight a global decline ...

Resisting the Legal Assault on Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Students

Resisting the Legal Assault on Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Students

United States, United States of America, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Gender identity, Human Dignity, Intersectionality, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual Orientation, , Substantive Equality

Since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v Hodges striking down same-sex marriage bans across the ...

Rehabilitating Prisoners’ Human Rights: The Right to Education

Rehabilitating Prisoners’ Human Rights: The Right to Education

United Kingdom, Prison Reform, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Education is recognised as a human right for everyone, yet for prisoners it remains largely elusive. A recent ...

Empathy and Justice: Abortion Rights for Minor Rape Victims in India

Empathy and Justice: Abortion Rights for Minor Rape Victims in India

India, Abortion, Access to Justice, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Human Dignity, Right to Health, Right to Life, Sexual and Reproductive Rights,

Otherwise viewed as a laudable step in addressing rights to abort, India's Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act ...

The erasure from Australian schools of education about LGBTIQA+ people

The erasure from Australian schools of education about LGBTIQA+ people

Australia, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Children's Rights, Gender identity, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual Orientation, Substantive Equality

Australia achieved marriage equality in 2017. You would be forgiven for thinking that the next step on the journey ...

How flexible are South African courts’ remedial powers? A closer look at the Constitutional Court’s shifting approach to constitutional damages

How flexible are South African courts’ remedial powers? A closer look at the Constitutional Court’s shifting approach to constitutional damages

South Africa, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Remedies, Role of the Judiciary

In two 2021 judgments, Residents of Industry House and Thubakgale, the Constitutional Court of South Africa ...

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