What Principles Should Guide a Fairer Refugee Responsibility-Sharing Regime?United Nations, Immigration and AsylumOn 19 September 2016, world leaders gathered at the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants . This historical Summit ...
A Whitened White Paper on Human RightsChina, Constitutions and Human RightsThe Chinese government claims to have made stunning progress in improving the human rights situation in the ...
Turning back the clock on Socio -Economic Rights: Kenya’s Court of Appeal decision in the Mitu-Bell CaseKenya, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic RightsA July 2016 decision by the Kenyan Court of Appeal in Kenya Airports Authority v Mitu-Bell Welfare Society & 2 ...
Retrospective Punishment: A Reasonable Limit on Charter Rights (R v. KRJ)Canada, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialIn KRJ, the Supreme Court of Canada tackled the retrospective application of criminal sanctions on certain sexual ...
PJS v News Group Newspapers: Threesomes! Privacy! Social Media!United Kingdom, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to PrivacyOn 19 May 2016, the UK Supreme Court handed down judgment in PJS v News Group Newspapers Limited. This decision ...
The ‘Burkini Ban’ – A Red Line even for the European Court of Human Rights?European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Freedom of ReligionThe decision of several authorities in France to prohibit the wearing of the burkini on public beaches has caused ...
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 ...