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Houses Without Land: The Strange Property Rights Phenomenon in the Kenyan Coastal Region and its Effect on coastal communities’ right to housing

Houses Without Land: The Strange Property Rights Phenomenon in the Kenyan Coastal Region and its Effect on coastal communities’ right to housing

African Charter on Human and People's Rights, Kenya, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Environment, Gender, Right to Housing, Role of the Judiciary

The common law maxim cujus est solem ejus et usque ad coelum et ad inferos affirms that whoever owns a piece of ...

Protection from Procedural Lapses as Reasonable Accommodation

Protection from Procedural Lapses as Reasonable Accommodation

India, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

One of the principles underpinning the Rights of Persons with Disability Act, 2016 (“the Disability Act”) in India ...

Uganda’s Draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023

Uganda’s Draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023

African Charter on Human and People's Rights, Uganda, United Nations, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender identity, Human Dignity, Right against Torture, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy, Sexual Orientation,

After an unsuccessful attempt to propagate the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014, the Ugandan Parliament ...

Cathryn Costello on the UK Immigration Bill

Cathryn Costello on the UK Immigration Bill

United Kingdom, Immigration and Asylum

Oxford Human Rights Hub · Cathryn Costello on the UK Immigration Bill TRANSCRIPT: Dr Cathryn Costello: The ...

‘We have found institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia in the Met’: Baroness Casey Review

‘We have found institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia in the Met’: Baroness Casey Review

United Kingdom, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

A few days ago, the final report of an independent review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of ...

Kenya’s Landmark Supreme Court Decision on Non-Discrimination for Sexual Minorities

Kenya’s Landmark Supreme Court Decision on Non-Discrimination for Sexual Minorities

African Charter on Human and People's Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, Kenya, United Nations, United States of America, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual Orientation,

Kenya’s Supreme Court has entrenched the right to non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in a ...

Zambia’s Human Rights Project is Political

Zambia’s Human Rights Project is Political

African Charter on Human and People's Rights, United Nations, Zambia, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death Penalty, Human Dignity, Right against Torture, Role of the Judiciary

Zambia’s death penalty can be traced back to the colonial era, with the administration led by former president ...

International Women’s Day 2023: What Inspires You to ‘Embrace Equity’?

International Women’s Day 2023: What Inspires You to ‘Embrace Equity’?

United Nations, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Every year, 8 March marks International Women’s Day – a global day to celebrate progress in the realisation of ...

Gender Inequality and Gender Discrimination of Girls under the Justice System in Bangladesh

Gender Inequality and Gender Discrimination of Girls under the Justice System in Bangladesh

Bangladesh, United Nations, Access to Justice, Children's Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Bangladesh ratified the United Nations’ 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1990 and committed ...

Life-Saving At a High Cost: The Case for Provision of Rare Disease Treatments Being a Human Right

Life-Saving At a High Cost: The Case for Provision of Rare Disease Treatments Being a Human Right

Brazil, European Convention on Human Rights, United Nations, Access to Justice, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Socio-Economic Rights

Earlier this year, Brazilian authorities added Zolgesma, once “the world’s most expensive medical treatment to ...

Karnataka Hijab Ban Part 3: Unveiling the Need for an Intersectional Approach

Karnataka Hijab Ban Part 3: Unveiling the Need for an Intersectional Approach

India, Access to Justice, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion

This post continues the analysis of the ban on hijabs within the classroom in Karnataka, India (see also Part One ...

Karnataka Hijab Ban Part 2: The Irrelevant Relevance of Essential Religious Practices Test

Karnataka Hijab Ban Part 2: The Irrelevant Relevance of Essential Religious Practices Test

India, Access to Justice, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion

This blog continues Part 1 of the exploration of the Karnataka hijab case. The question of whether the wearing of ...

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