Historic Judgment: Kenya’s Presidential Election Declared Null and Void and Fresh Election OrderedKenya, Right to VoteIn an unprecedented turn of events, the Supreme Court of Kenya yesterday, in a 4-2 majority opinion, declared that ...
Children’s Rights, Illegitimacy and the Rule of Law in MalaysiaMalaysia, Children's Rights, Right to Freedom of ReligionIn A Child v National Registration Department, 25th July 2017, the Malaysian Court of Appeal held that a Muslim ...
Extra-territorial arrests by States: Did the Namibian Supreme Court get it wrong?Namibia, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialThe decision of Likanyi v The State, which was recently handed down by the Namibian Supreme Court, raises ...
Islam and Human Rights: A Critical IntersectionRight to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of ReligionGlobal politics is increasingly concerned with the relationship between religion and human rights. Human rights ...
Battling for Equality: Recognizing Civil Service Benefits in Same-sex MarriagesHong Kong, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationThe struggle for LGBTQ rights remains an embryonic fight in Asia, waiting to be further developed through advocacy ...
Watching the Indian Supreme Court Walk a Tight-Rope on the Right to Privacy in a Digital AgeIndia, Right to PrivacyA nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India has reserved its decision on whether or not there is a ...
The Constitutional Conundrum of The Right to Privacy in IndiaIndia, Right to PrivacyA nine-judge constitution bench of Supreme Court of India is currently considering whether privacy is a ...
Aadhaar and the Right to PrivacyIndia, Right to PrivacyThe Indian legal community is currently on tenterhooks awaiting judgment from the Supreme Court about the ...
India’s Model Beggary Bill: Towards Rehabilitating the BeggarsIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Life, Socio-Economic RightsThe practice of beggary is rampant in India and currently, over 4 lakh (400,000) people are involved in it. Some ...
State Intervention in Muslim Personal Law: A Case of Fundamental MisunderstandingIndia, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of ReligionThe All India Muslim Personal Law Board [the Board], has been at the centre of a raging controversy for the past ...
Preserving Evidence of ISIL Atrocities: The International, Impartial and Independent MechanismUnited Nations, Conflict and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialOn 21 December 2016, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 71/248, establishing an ‘International, Impartial ...
UN Committee Condemns Australia’s Punitive Asylum PolicyUnited Nations, Immigration and AsylumOn 23 June 2017, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights adopted its concluding observations on ...