Victory for Islanders’ Homes: Hong Kong Court Rules Against Unlicensed Funeral ParlourHong Kong, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic RightsFor over 20 years, residents of Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong have performed funeral rites in a makeshift ...
CEDAW Inquiry into Grave Violence Against Aboriginal Women in CanadaUnited Nations, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic RightsOn March 6, 2015 the CEDAW Committee released its second inquiry into grave and systemic violations of CEDAW under ...
Sri Lanka’s Second Chance to Achieve Lasting PeaceSri Lanka, Conflict and Human RightsHistory has given Sri Lanka a second chance. In 2009, as the conflict drew to its traumatic close, there was a ...
The International Human Rights Law Responsibilities of NGOsUnited Nations, Business and Human RightsThe international human rights law (IHRL) system is predicated on the principle of state responsibility to ...
Grayling’s Enhance Court Fees: how to pay lip-service to Magna CartaUnited Kingdom, Access to JusticeOn 9th March 2015, the Civil Proceedings and Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order 2015 came into force in ...
Jamaican Marijuana Reform, Rastas and RightsJamaica, Right to Freedom of ReligionIn 1997, Dr. Dennis Forsythe, described in Forsythe v Director of Public Prosecutions and Attorney General (1997 ...
Supreme Court of Namibia Finds HIV Positive Women Sterilised Without Informed ConsentNamibia, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationLate last year, the Supreme Court of Namibia handed down judgment in Government of the Republic of Namibia vs. LM ...
Hungry For Justice For the Last 15 Years: Irom Sharmila ChanuIndia, Conflict and Human RightsLast week, when Irom Sharmila Chanu was selected for the Stree Shakti Award by KA Kunjila Smaraka Stree Shakti ...
A Veiled Attempt at Conformity? Recent Cases Test the Bounds of Canada’s Commitment to MulticulturalismCanada, Right to Freedom of ReligionThe boundaries of Canada’s multicultural society have been tested in two recent cases involving religious attire ...
The Equality Agenda in 2015: Part III- Advancing EqualityUnited Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn the final post of this ‘Equality Agenda in 2015’ blog-series, Professor Sir Bob Hepple QC returns to confront ...
States are Bound to Consider the UN Human Rights Committee’s Views in Good FaithUnited Nations, Constitutions and Human RightsThe thorny question of implementation of the Views adopted by the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) under the ...
UN Strategy to Combat Religious Intolerance, Discrimination and Violence: Is It Fit for Purpose?United Nations, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionAccording to a recent report by the Pew Research Center, violence and discrimination against religious groups by ...