Having Regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the ChildUnited Kingdom, Children's RightsThe Third Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights for the Session 2016-7 has recommended the inclusion of a ...
Brexit: Foundational Constitutional and Interpretive Principles: IIEuropean Union, United Kingdom, BrexitThis should be read with the previous posting. They are both designed to reveal underlying issues of ...
Brexit: Foundational Constitutional and Interpretive Principles: IEuropean Union, United Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe post-referendum discourse has been marked by vibrant political and legal exchange in Parliament and the ...
Six months later: a reflection on what has changed since the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ordered an end to detention on Manus IslandAustralia, Papua New Guinea, Immigration and AsylumOn 26 April 2016, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea (PNG) ruled that the detention of asylum seeker and ...
Ahmed v United Kingdom: European Court of Human Rights Still Skirting Around Jury BiasEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Race, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) recently handed down its long-awaited admissibility decision in Ahmed ...
Ending the Perverse Culture of Mob Justice in NigeriaNigeria, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to LifeThe failure of Nigerian criminal justice institutions and agencies to prevent mob justice or punish those who ...
Law of Peace(making) and the Promise of a New Beginning for ChildrenUnited Nations, Children's Rights, Conflict and Human RightsThe act of peacemaking may be viewed as the promise of a new beginning. It is latent within the sui generis legal ...
The Human Rights Council – Highlighted Outcomes of the 33rd SessionUnited Nations, Socio-Economic RightsThe three intensive weeks of the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) concluded on 30 September 2016. ...
European Court of Human Rights to Consider Right to EducationEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Race, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationJames Rooney is one of the Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellows. The Fellowship is a ...
UN Rights Experts Warn Against the Grave Threat of Unsafe AbortionsUnited Nations, Abortion, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual and Reproductive RightsA group of United Nations human rights experts have called on States to repeal restrictive abortion laws and ...
Legislating for Trans Equality: Recent Developments in the United Kingdom and IrelandIreland, United Kingdom, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn January 2016, the House of Commons Select Committee on Women and Equalities published a landmark report on ...
The French Council of State on the Burkini – Part 2: Upholding Religious FreedomFrance, Right to Freedom of ReligionIn its ordinance of 26 August 2016 entitled Ligue des droits de l'homme et autres the Council of State — France’s ...