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Closed Classrooms – Exploring the Impact of School Closures due to Air Pollution on Children’s Right to Education

Closed Classrooms – Exploring the Impact of School Closures due to Air Pollution on Children’s Right to Education

India, Children's Rights, Right to Education, Right to healthy environment

The worsening of air quality across Delhi in India has again led to school closures. Almost all schools have moved ...

Who is a mother under international human rights law?

Who is a mother under international human rights law?

International Law, United Nations, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Gender Based Violence, Gender Equality, International Covenant on Economic, , Transgender rights, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

A new call for input has been advertised on the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. ...

An International Human Rights Law Critique of Karnataka’s Hate Speech Bill

An International Human Rights Law Critique of Karnataka’s Hate Speech Bill

India, Freedom of speech, Hate speech, Legislative Reform, Proportionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Karnataka’s Legislative Assembly recently passed the controversial Karnataka Hate Speech and Hate Crimes ...

The Shadow of ‘Honour’: Persistent Violence and the Imperative of Human Rights in South Asia

The Shadow of ‘Honour’: Persistent Violence and the Imperative of Human Rights in South Asia

Pakistan, Criminal Justice, Criminal procedure, Right to Life

The fragility of the right to life in Pakistan was starkly highlighted on July 21, 2025, when Pakistani ...

Pakistan’s New Constitutional Court and the Importance of Institutional Independence

Pakistan’s New Constitutional Court and the Importance of Institutional Independence

Pakistan, Constitutions and Human Rights, Democracy and Political Rights, judicial independence, Role of the Judiciary

Typically, specialised constitutional courts are regarded as effective institutional protectors of democracy and ...

Bervidi: Reasonable Accommodation for Parent of Child with Disability

Bervidi: Reasonable Accommodation for Parent of Child with Disability

CJEU, Court of Justice of the European Union, EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Disability, Employment Equality Directive, Reasonable Accommodation, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

For many persons with disabilities, their family and social network play an indispensable role in ensuring their ...

From Protection to Precarity: Examining the U.S. Decision to Terminate TPS for Burmese Nationals

From Protection to Precarity: Examining the U.S. Decision to Terminate TPS for Burmese Nationals

Myanmar, United States of America, Immigration and Asylum, International Humanitarian Law, Rights of refugees

On 25 November 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in the Federal Register that it ...

Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure- Stateless citizens elegy: Part 2- Legal sanction for SOP

Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure- Stateless citizens elegy: Part 2- Legal sanction for SOP

India, Procedural Justice, Right to Nationality, rule of law, Statutory interpretation

In Part 1 of this blog, I argued that Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) imposes arbitrary procedural ...

Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure – Stateless Citizens Elegy: Part 1- On Arbitrariness of Procedural requirements of SOP

Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure – Stateless Citizens Elegy: Part 1- On Arbitrariness of Procedural requirements of SOP

India, Human Dignity, Procedural Justice, Right to Nationality, rule of law

On 9.09.2025, Assam’s Chief Minister approved the Standard Operating Procedure (‘SOP’) for implementation of the ...

Migration with Dignity or Statelessness by Design?: A Closer look at the curious case of Kiribati

Migration with Dignity or Statelessness by Design?: A Closer look at the curious case of Kiribati

Kiribati, Climate Change, Immigration and Asylum, Rights of refugees, Territorial Integrity

With regions across the globe experiencing its effect in different forms, climate change has reached every nook ...

The Years of Lost Freedom: The Untold Cost of Rights and India’s Unkept Promise of Compensation

The Years of Lost Freedom: The Untold Cost of Rights and India’s Unkept Promise of Compensation

India, Freedom from Arbitrary Detention, Prisoners rights, Remedies, Right to Liberty

In India, populist narratives often reduce personal liberty to an abstract idea, and its true value is realised ...

Delhi Chokes in Hazardous Air: A Human Rights Emergency

Delhi Chokes in Hazardous Air: A Human Rights Emergency

India, Right to Health, Right to healthy environment, Right to Life

Year after year, the capital city of India chokes in an Air Quality Index (“AQI”) that exceeds levels deemed not ...

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