Transphobia at the highest level: UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem’s report on Violence Against Women and Girls in breach of the Special Mandate Code of ConductCanada, England and Wales, United Nations, Gender Equality, Gender identity, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn June 2025, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, released a report ...
Malaysian Federal Court Held that a Fatwa Cannot Declare a Company ‘Deviant’ from Islamic TeachingsMalaysia, Freedom of Religion, Right to Freedom of ReligionOn 19 June 2025, the Federal Court of Malaysia overturned a Court of Appeal decision which upheld a fatwa ...
Right to Children’s Identity in PakistanPakistan, United Nations, Children's Rights, Rights of the ChildThe right of children to identity is globally recognized, with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the ...
A Decolonial Jurisprudence in Making – the Right of a Woman to Dissolve a Marriage in PakistanPakistan, Family law, Gender, Islamic law, MarriageRecently, the Supreme Court of Pakistan handed down a judgment, titled Dr. Seema Hanif Khan v.Waqas Khan and ...
Australia’s High Court Reconsiders Freedom: The New Constitutional Battle over Post-NZYQ Immigration DetentionAustralia, Freedom from Arbitrary Detention, Freedom of Movement, Immigration and Asylum, Right to LibertyThe High Court of Australia took a fresh constitutional challenge on the government’s post-NZYQ immigration ...
The Inconsistent Approach to Violence Against Women by the European Court of Human RightsEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Iceland, Domestic Violence, Gender Based Violence, Law of evidence, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Private LifeIn two recent judgments involving similar fact patterns, the European Court of Human Rights reached opposing ...
AI Training, Data Centers, and the Right to a Healthy Environment: The Case of xAI in MemphisUnited Nations, United States of America, Artificial Intelligence, Business and Human Rights, Climate Change, Environment, Human Dignity, Right to healthy environment, Social ProtectionThe international recognition of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment has gained ...
Probing the Normative Limits of Criminalizing ‘Choice’ under the Indian Anti-Conversion LawsIndia, conversion, criminal law, Freedom of Religion, right to marryA familiar yet urgent question stands before the Indian Supreme Court. Rajasthan is the most recent addition to ...
Recognition Is Not Justice: What Australia’s River Law Reveals About Indigenous RightsAustralia, United Nations, Environment, Indigenous RightsIn 2017, Victoria enacted the Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act, the first law in Australia ...
Chirinos Salamanca v. Venezuela: A Legal Analysis of Retroactive Human Rights Law ApplicationAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Venezuela, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Democracy and Political Rights, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of ReviewOn 21 August 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) delivered its judgment on preliminary ...
Chirinos Salamanca vs. Venezuela: Un análisis jurídico de la aplicación retroactiva de la legislación de derechos humanosAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Venezuela, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Democracy and Political Rights, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of ReviewEl 21 de agosto de 2025, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) dictó sentencia sobre ...
The Kerala High Court’s Sex Work Ruling: A Human Rights Crisis in the MakingIndia, Freedom of expression, Legislative Reform, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sex WorkWhen courts rule on the lives of vulnerable communities without grounding their decisions in lived realities, the ...