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Climate Change and the Erosion of Children’s Rights in Bangladesh

Climate Change and the Erosion of Children’s Rights in Bangladesh

Bangladesh, Children's Rights, Climate Change, Environment, Human Dignity, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Right to healthy environment, Right to Life, , Substantive Equality

In 2023, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued General Comment No. 26, recognising climate change and ...

The First Gender Persecution Conviction at the International Criminal Court

The First Gender Persecution Conviction at the International Criminal Court

International Criminal Court, Sudan, Crimes Against Humanity, Gender justice, Gender Persecution, International Criminal Law

On 6 October 2025, the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Ali Muhammad Ali ...

The CJEU ruling on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Opening a door for progressive social experimentation? (Part II)

The CJEU ruling on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Opening a door for progressive social experimentation? (Part II)

Council of Europe, Court of Justice of the European Union, Denmark, , European Union, Labour Rights

On 11 November 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU/Court) delivered the anxiously awaited ...

The CJEU ruling on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: opening a door for progressive social experimentation? (Part I)

The CJEU ruling on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: opening a door for progressive social experimentation? (Part I)

Council of Europe, Court of Justice of the European Union, Denmark, , European Union, Labour Rights

On 11 November 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU/Court) delivered the anxiously awaited ...

Positive and Negative Rights Strike Again: Mathur v. Ontario

Positive and Negative Rights Strike Again: Mathur v. Ontario

Canada, Climate Change, Climate justice, Positive Duties, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

The distinction between positive and negative rights continues to complicate, and defeat, constitutional ...

Human Rights Gaze into AI and Human Genetics and Genomics: Guiding the Legal and Policy Frameworks

Human Rights Gaze into AI and Human Genetics and Genomics: Guiding the Legal and Policy Frameworks

United Nations, Artificial Intelligence, Business and Human Rights, Right to science

Advancements in human genetics and genomics have been continually impacting basic human rights and fundamental ...

Asylum vs. Temporary Protection: The paradox of legal protection in Latin America

Asylum vs. Temporary Protection: The paradox of legal protection in Latin America

Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Latin America, Venezuela, Immigration and Asylum, Refugee Convention, refugee rights, Right to Seek Asylum

Venezuela’s protracted collapse has driven millions to seek protection across Latin America and the Caribbean ...

A Long Shadow: Jwanczuk, SC, and Incommensurability

A Long Shadow: Jwanczuk, SC, and Incommensurability

England and Wales, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, United Kingdom, Judicial Review, Proportionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination,

The UK Supreme Court has unanimously allowed the UK Government’s appeal in R (Jwanczuk) v Secretary of State for ...

Connectivity Without Access: How Nepal’s Social Media Ban Strips Substance from the Right to Internet Access

Connectivity Without Access: How Nepal’s Social Media Ban Strips Substance from the Right to Internet Access

Nepal, Human Dignity, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Role of the Judiciary, , Standard of Review, Substantive Equality

In September 2025, Nepal faced massive public protests triggered by a ban on social media apps and websites, where ...

Transphobia at the highest level: UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem’s report on Violence Against Women and Girls in breach of the Special Mandate Code of Conduct

Transphobia at the highest level: UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem’s report on Violence Against Women and Girls in breach of the Special Mandate Code of Conduct

Canada, England and Wales, United Nations, Gender Equality, Gender identity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In June 2025, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, released a report ...

Malaysian Federal Court Held that a Fatwa Cannot Declare a Company ‘Deviant’ from Islamic Teachings

Malaysian Federal Court Held that a Fatwa Cannot Declare a Company ‘Deviant’ from Islamic Teachings

Malaysia, Freedom of Religion, Right to Freedom of Religion

On 19 June 2025, the Federal Court of Malaysia overturned a Court of Appeal decision which upheld a fatwa ...

Right to Children’s Identity in Pakistan

Right to Children’s Identity in Pakistan

Pakistan, United Nations, Children's Rights, Rights of the Child

The right of children to identity is globally recognized, with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the ...

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