SAJAP: Facilitating Justice in NamibiaNamibia, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialLast year, we featured reflections from Claire Palmer and Rachel Clement on their experiences working as OPBP ...
Bombay High Court makes Right to Clean Toilets a Fundamental Right for Women in IndiaIndia, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Socio-Economic RightsSome women in India have to risk their life and sexual integrity when they decide to go to the toilet. Others who ...
Recent Developments in the Australian Health Policy Further Undermine the Right to HealthAustralia, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Socio-Economic RightsAs a developed country, Australia has a generally high standard of health care. Various kinds of public ...
Journalism, Detention and Anti-Terrorism PowersUnited Kingdom, Counter-terrorism, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Standard of ReviewFew would dispute that journalistic sources and material deserve special legal protection in a liberal democracy. ...
Pakistan: A Paradoxical DivinityPakistan, Right to Freedom of Religion, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionThe 4 January 2016 marked five years since the Punjab governor Salman Taseer was killed by a member of his own ...
The strange case of Amos Yee: whither free speech and children’s rights in Singapore?Singapore, Children's Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionOn 27th March 2015 as Singaporeans mourned the death, four days earlier, of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew ...
Trafficking of human beings at the ECtHR: Broadening the protection of women and girls through Article 14European Convention on Human Rights, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationTwo Spanish cases currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) illustrate the gaping lacuna ...
Ebola and Understanding Health Crises as Threats to International SecurityUnited Nations, Conflict and Human Rights, Right to HealthOn 14 January 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the two-year Ebola outbreak in West ...
Understanding One of the Worst Environmental Disaster in Brazil’s HistoryBrazil, Business and Human Rights, EnvironmentOn November 5 2015, the Fundão dam—property of the mining company Samarco—collapsed, sending more than forty ...
Nigerian Farmers Can Sue Shell in Dutch Court: Precedent for Transnational Cases against MultinationalsNetherlands, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, EnvironmentA recent ruling by the Court of Appeal in The Hague signals new hope on the horizon for victims seeking a judicial ...
Sentencing and the Possibility of Reform in IndiaIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialLast month the Supreme Court of India took a regressive step by affirming a 2008 decision (Swamy Shradhanand) in ...
Textbook Provision for Learners in South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal Judgment in the BEFA CaseSouth Africa, Right to Education, Socio-Economic RightsIn December 2015, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (“SCA”) in the case of Minister of Basic Education and ...