Towards the abolition of the detention of immigrant children?American Convention on Human Rights, Children's Rights, Immigration and AsylumIn its recent Advisory Opinion 21/14, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) adopts a firm position ...
Decisiones nominadas para la categoría Garrote en los Premios Género y Justicia al Descubierto 2015 India, Peru, Portugal, United States of America, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationJueces y juezas de todo el mundo tienen que hacerse responsables de las decisiones discriminatorias que toman y ...
The ‘Bludgeon’ Nominees in the Gender Justice Uncovered Awards 2015India, Peru, Portugal, United States of America, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationJudges from all over the world should be held accountable for the discriminatory decisions they issue on matters ...
What Traffickers Know that the Court of Appeal Does NotUnited Kingdom, Gender, Immigration and Asylum, Labour RightsIn Reyes and Suryadi v Al-Malki [2015] EWCA Civ 32 and Benkharbouche and Janah v Embassy of the Republic of Sudan ...
Law Society of Canadian Province Nova Scotia is Found to Have Overstepped its Mandate, Violating Religious FreedomsCanada, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Sexual OrientationThe first of a series of decisions that will shape how the balance is to be struck between Canada’s ...
Northern Ireland’s Human Rights Commission Granted Leave for Judicial Review to Challenge the Country’s Near-Blanket Ban on AbortionNorthern Ireland, Abortion, Right against Torture, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy, Sexual and Reproductive RightsUnlike the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland is not covered by the Abortion Act 1967. If you are a woman living ...
The Legality of Mass Surveillance OperationsUnited Kingdom, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to PrivacyA court which isn’t a court in name rules on the legality of a government mass surveillance program that may or ...
Constitutional Protection for the Right to Strike in CanadaCanada, Labour Rights, Right to Freedom of AssociationIn a momentous decision, released on 30 January 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the right to strike ...
Whole Life Sentences in Hutchinson v UK – Compromise or Concession?United Kingdom, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right against TortureIn Hutchinson v UK, the ECtHR again addressed the vexed question of the compatibility of whole life sentences with ...
Glossip v. Gross: SCOTUS to Consider Oklahoma’s Lethal Injection ProtocolUnited States of America, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death PenaltyOn Friday 23rd January, 2015, the US Supreme Court granted three Oklahoma death row inmates certiorari to ...
Los “Fondos Buitre” y la Ley de Quiebras de los Estados en crisis económica.United Nations, Business and Human Rights, Socio-Economic RightsEn un libro reciente editado por Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky y Jernej Letnar Cernic se ha observado que la gestión ...
Los "Fondos Buitre" y la Ley de Quiebras de los Estados en crisis económica.United Nations, Socio-Economic RightsEn un libro reciente editado por Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky y Jernej Letnar Cernic se ha observado que la gestión ...