Blogs by jurisdiction

Preventing Torture

United Nations, Right against Torture

In March 2017, the School of Law at Royal Holloway University of London and the University of Bristol ...

Post-Truth vs Law in Colombia: An Unstoppable Force and an Immoveable Object?

Colombia, Conflict and Human Rights, Right to Vote

“Post-truth” politics has been a matter of political contention recently, but the discussion of the impact of ...

Transforming the Law-Transgender Rights in the US (with Corey Stoughton)

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

In May of 2016, the Obama administration issued federal guidance that stated transgender people are protected ...

Death Sentences in the Delhi Gang Rape Case: Brutality as Trumps

India, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death Penalty

On 16th December 2012, a particularly disturbing case of gangrape and murder in New Delhi (‘the Delhi gangrape ...

Human Dignity, Land Dispossession, And The Right To Security Of Tenure: A Note On The South African Constitutional Court’s Judgement In Daniels v Scribante

South Africa, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic Rights

In a recent judgement by the South African Constitutional Court, Daniels v Scribante and Another, the court made a ...

One More Step Towards Human Rights Protection: Tunisia Allows Direct Access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

African Charter on Human and People's Rights, Tunisia, Constitutions and Human Rights

On 16th April 2017, the Republic of Tunisia signed a declaration allowing individuals and NGOs to access the ...

Serbia’s New Domestic Violence Law and the Istanbul Convention: Potential and Challenges

Serbia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender

At the time where the old Russian proverb “If he beats you, it means he loves you’’ seems to have taken roots ...

Taking Some Human Rights Back: The Case of Ildar Dadin

Russia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of Assembly, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees a right of peaceful assembly, has recently clashed with ...

Human Rights, the Environment and Mining: Holding Transnational Corporations Accountable

Peru, Business and Human Rights, Environment, Right to Food and Water, Right to Health

Litigation that tests the division between corporate and state human rights obligations, and the synergies between ...

Freedom of Speech or Enabling a Right to Insult? The Australian Debate over Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975

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

With a rise in the Neo-Right worldwide, we see the fear of the foreigner and the blaming of refugees and welfare ...

A ‘state-generated’ maid? – care workers in the South Korea

South Korea, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Although jobs of ‘formal’ caregivers have been created by laws and Government intervention, their wages are set to ...

About Abortion (with Carol Sanger)

United States of America, Abortion, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Since the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade, abortion has been legal in the United States. But terminating ...