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An Alarming Recall Order by the Indian Supreme Court: Should State Convenience Override the Rights of the Accused?

An Alarming Recall Order by the Indian Supreme Court: Should State Convenience Override the Rights of the Accused?

India, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial

In Ritu Chhabaria vs Union of India, a two-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court recently declared that the ...

Balancing Gender Rights: Pakistan’s Federal Shariat Court’s Verdict on Self-Perceived Gender Identity

Balancing Gender Rights: Pakistan’s Federal Shariat Court’s Verdict on Self-Perceived Gender Identity

Pakistan, Gender, Gender identity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018 (the ‘Act’), passed by Pakistan’s Parliament in May 2018, ...

Marginalized Twice Over: The Struggle of Dalit Christians in India

Marginalized Twice Over: The Struggle of Dalit Christians in India

India, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion

The extension of certain benefits (known as ‘Scheduled Caste benefits’) to Dalit Christians is a contentious topic ...

Menstruation Matters for the Realization of Human Rights

Menstruation Matters for the Realization of Human Rights

Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Menstrual activism is at its height, and this year’s day of menstrual awareness and action on May 28 has more ...

Lessons from the French Vigilance Law for the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

Lessons from the French Vigilance Law for the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

European Union, France, Business and Human Rights, Environment

On 23rd February 2022, the European Commission published a draft Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ...

The Right to Health Under Attack: Violence and Insecurity Compromise Healthcare Access in Sudan

The Right to Health Under Attack: Violence and Insecurity Compromise Healthcare Access in Sudan

Sudan, Conflict and Human Rights, Right to Health

On April 15, 2023, extreme fighting in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan began between the Sudanese Armed Forces ...

The UK Bill of Rights: Changes to Human Rights Protection may Impact Climate Litigation

The UK Bill of Rights: Changes to Human Rights Protection may Impact Climate Litigation

European Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Children's Rights, Climate justice, Environment, Right to healthy environment, Role of the Judiciary

Across the world, human rights-based arguments are increasingly deployed in climate litigation against public ...

Rajasthan’s Right To Health Act: A Case of Using the Wrong Means to Achieve the Right Ends

Rajasthan’s Right To Health Act: A Case of Using the Wrong Means to Achieve the Right Ends

India, Right to Health

The landmark Rajasthan Right to Health Act makes access to healthcare a legal entitlement of every resident of the ...

The Inadequacy of India’s Integrated Child Protection Scheme In Responding to Juvenile Delinquency

The Inadequacy of India’s Integrated Child Protection Scheme In Responding to Juvenile Delinquency

India, Carceral justice, Children's Rights, Human Dignity, Right to Education,

India’s Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) is a centrally sponsored scheme for children in need of care and ...

Public Purpose or Private Interest? The Supreme Court of India’s Scrutiny of Land Acquisition for a University Project in Tribal Areas

Public Purpose or Private Interest? The Supreme Court of India’s Scrutiny of Land Acquisition for a University Project in Tribal Areas

India, Access to Justice, Cultural rights, Indigenous Rights, Right to Housing, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of Review

The Supreme Court of India recently delivered a landmark judgment in Anil Agarwal Foundation Etc v State of Orissa ...

لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے برطانوی نوآبادیاتی دور کے غداری کے قانون کو کالعدم قرار دے دیا

لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے برطانوی نوآبادیاتی دور کے غداری کے قانون کو کالعدم قرار دے دیا

Pakistan, United Kingdom, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Role of the Judiciary,

30 مارچ 2023 کو لاہور ہائی کورٹ کے جسٹس شاہد کریم نے ہارون فاروق بمقابلہ فیڈریشن آف پاکستان کیس کا تاریخی فیصلہ ...

Lahore High Court Strikes Down Pakistan’s Colonial-era Sedition Law

Lahore High Court Strikes Down Pakistan’s Colonial-era Sedition Law

Pakistan, United Kingdom, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Role of the Judiciary,

On March 30 2023, Justice Shahid Karim of the Lahore High Court (LHC) delivered a landmark judgment in Haroon ...

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