Canada to Hold National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and GirlsCanada, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender, Race, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn August 3, 2016, the government of Canada announced a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous ...
Socio-Economic Rights Advocacy in South Africa’s Eastern CapeSouth Africa, Right to Education, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic RightsI am one of the two Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellows for this year. This is the first ...
Vouchers, Performance Bonus, and Compensation: The Juridical Nature of the SalaryArgentina, Labour RightsOn September 1st of 2009, the Supreme Court of Argentina established in the case of Pérez, Aníbal Raúl v. Disco S. ...
Is the two-thirds gender rule discourse engendering double invisibility in public life for other vulnerable groups in Kenya?Kenya, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIt is asserted that an enduring democracy is one that secures the meaningful participation of youth, women, ...
Guilty of Rape, But Not PunishedBelgium, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, GenderOn 3 February 2016, the Criminal Division of the Court of First Instance of Ghent in Belgium found a 33-year old ...
ICJ Judge Joan Donoghue speaks on the difficulty of proving Human Rights violations in front of the “World Court” at the Oxford Human Rights ProgramUnited Nations, Access to JusticeBy starting off with a made up case of forced disappearance that led our made up victim to flee to another country ...
Velásquez Paiz et al v Guatemala: Femicide in Guatemala – Part IIAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Conflict and Human Rights, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 19 November 2015, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) handed down a decision on gender-based ...
L’interdiction au Maroc de rompre le jeune pendant le Ramadan est contraire aux obligations internationales des droits de l’homme de ce paysMorocco, Right to Freedom of ReligionCe jeudi 16 juin 2016 d’après ce qui à été publié par le journal Marocain TelQuel, deux hommes ont été condamné à ...
Velásquez Paiz et al v Guatemala: Gender Stereotypes and Lack of Justice – Part IAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn November 2015, a decade after the sexual assault and murder of a young Guatemalan woman, the Inter-American ...
Morocco’s Prohibition on Breaking Fast During Ramadan Violates The Right to Freedom of Religion and BeliefMorocco, Right to Freedom of ReligionOn Thursday, 16th of June 2016, according to what was reported by the Moroccan newspaper TelQuel, two men have ...
The Exclusion of Romani Communities from Non-Emergency Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation ProgramsRomania, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Socio-Economic RightsOne of the most pressing issues regarding Europe’s most marginalised ethnic minority remains their restricted ...
European Court of Human Rights Rules on Greek Debt RestructuringEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic RightsThere is a seemingly endless stream of cases originating from the Greek crisis, which has preoccupied the ...