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Iran’s Presidential Charade: Women Out or In?

Iran, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Vote

The controversy over whether a woman can be President in Iran rises every four years during the presidential ...

Kenya Enacts Contempt of Court Act to Uphold the Right to a Fair Trial

Kenya, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Role of the Judiciary

For a long time, the law on contempt of court in Kenya was outdated and quite unsatisfactory. However, Kenya ...

Penalising Anti-Semitism in Poland: Creating “Free Speech Martyrs”?

Poland, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

On a November night in 2015, an effigy of a Jew was burnt in the main market square in Wrocław, Poland, as part of ...

The New UN General Comment And Privatisation, Part 2: Can States Entirely Privatise The Delivery Of Essential Services?

United Nations, Business and Human Rights, Socio-Economic Rights

Two weeks ago, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) published the much-awaited new ...

The New UN General Comment on Business and Human Rights, Part 1: What Regulations Must States Put in Place when Private Actors are Involved in the Delivery of Essential Services?

United Nations, Business and Human Rights, Socio-Economic Rights

Two weeks ago, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) published the much-awaited new ...

The Difficult Road Ahead: Overcoming the Stratified Home-based Care Regime in Latin America

Latin America, Uruguay, Gender, Labour Rights

Between 1990 and 2013 female labour participation in Latin American went from being 14 percentage points below to ...

Trinity Lutheran v. Comer: Does The U.S. Supreme Court Now See Separation of Church and State as a Kind of Religious Discrimination?

United States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer seems modest on its facts, but it moves the Court ...

Trillion-Rand South African Nuclear Procurement Halted By South African High Court

South Africa, Constitutions and Human Rights

The South African government’s nuclear procurement programme, already mired in controversy in the media amidst ...

First in Asia – Taiwan’s Marriage Equality Ruling in Comparative and Queer Perspectives

Taiwan, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual Orientation

On 24 May 2017, the Constitutional Court of Taiwan issued a ruling in favour of same-sex marriage (full text in ...

The Devil’s in the Dictum: the Kenyan Court of Appeal Wishes Away the Inviolability of the Right to Hold a Religious Belief

Kenya, Right to Freedom of Religion

High school students subscribing to the Seventh Day Adventist faith have cause for celebration. In Seventh Day ...

Limitations on the Remedial Powers of the Inter-American System of Human Rights

American Convention on Human Rights, Role of the Judiciary

In 2001, the Supreme Court of Argentina gave a judgment against Jorge Fontevecchia and Héctor D’Amico for ...

Can President Rouhani Promote Human Rights in Iran?

Iran, Constitutions and Human Rights

Moderate President Rouhani was re-elected President of Iran on 19 May 2017. In spite of his biggest achievement ...