Another first: Reparations Awarded to Victims at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ RightsAfrican Charter on Human and People's Rights, Constitutions and Human RightsThe recent award of reparations by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to the applicants in Zongo and ...
Spain’s Commitment to International Human Rights Law: 26 Murdered Children Isn’t Regrettable, It’s TerrifyingSpain, Children's Rights, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 31st July 2015, the statistics on the number of children killed at the hands of their fathers during visitation ...
Terminating Employee Rights: A Discussion of Nyamande and Another v Zuva PetroleumZimbabwe, Labour RightsThe judgment of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe in Nyamande and another v Zuva Petroleum SC 43/15, handed down on 17 ...
Asia Bibi’s “Unfair Trial”Pakistan, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death Penalty, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionThe week before last, the Pakistani Supreme Court admitted Asia bibi’s appeal against her conviction and death ...
Zero-Tolerance for Severe Forms of Labour Exploitation in the UKUnited Kingdom, Business and Human Rights, Immigration and Asylum, Labour RightsIn June 2015, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published the results of research conducted in 21 ...
India, the Land of Ironies: A Constitutional Democracy’s Dance with the Death PenaltyIndia, Counter-terrorism, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death PenaltyIndia is a country of ironies. Barely a fortnight ago, we had a consultation on the death penalty organised by the ...
The Execution of Justice in VenezuelaVenezuela, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right against TortureIn 2009, Judge María Lourdes Afiuni released a political prisoner on bail. Hours after the judgment was delivered, ...
Politics and Legality: The UK’s Trade Union Bill 2015United Kingdom, Labour Rights, Right to Freedom of AssociationDespite having some of the most onerous legal restrictions on the right to strike in the industrialised West, ...
The Pornography of Policing: The “Rape Bait”India, Children's Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, GenderIn Bombay, two men posing as cops raped a 17-year-old girl and filmed the violence they perpetrated on the phone ...
The Seafood Industry and Its Sustainability Challenge – Why the Government of Thailand and Global Retailers Will Work Towards Sustainability and Human RightsThailand, Business and Human Rights, Immigration and AsylumA recent investigation from the Guardian has revealed how Rohingya migrants fleeing Burma to reach Malaysia are ...
Glossip v Gross: Taking Up Justice Breyer’s Call to Question the Death PenaltyUnited States of America, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death PenaltyLast month the United States Supreme Court ruled in Glossip v. Gross 135 S. Ct. 2726 (2015) that the use of ...
R (Davis): Rights in Communications Data and Constitutional EvolutionUnited Kingdom, Right to PrivacyMuch ink has been spilt of late over the mass surveillance programs run by western intelligence agencies. A ...