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 ...
The Equality Agenda in 2015: Part II- Access to JusticeUnited Kingdom, Access to Justice, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn the second instalment of Professor Sir Bob Hepple’s ‘Equality Agenda in 2015’ series, the focus turns to the ...
Día Internacional de las Mujeres: Las mujeres y las niñas luchan por la igualdad de género en las cortesBotswana, Colombia, Spain, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual Orientation¿Qué mejor ocasión que el Día Internacional de las Mujeres para pedirle a los jueces y juezas que se hagan ...
International Women’s Day: Women and Girls Struggle for Equality in the CourtsBotswana, Colombia, Spain, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationWhat better time than International Women’s Day to embolden citizens to exercise their power over the judicial ...
Concerns about Greece from the European Commission against Racism and IntoleranceGreece, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationThe European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), a Council of Europe body monitoring problems of ...
The Equality Agenda in 2015: Part I- The Constitutional IssuesUnited Kingdom, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThis will be a year of political and constitutional turbulence for equality law. What changes can we expect after ...
Mainstreaming Disability in Development: The need for a Disability-Inclusive Post-2015 Development AgendaUnited Nations, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationAs a report by the World Health Organization indicates, around 15% of the world’s population, roughly 1 billion ...
The Emergence of Business and Human Rights in the EU’s External RelationsEuropean Union, Business and Human RightsGlobalization has provided for numerous opportunities for enterprises to contribute to the respect of human ...
Judicial Appointment of Women on the Decline in Canada and AustraliaAustralia, Canada, Gender, Role of the JudiciaryWhile many countries have superficially committed to the goal of gender equality with a lot of noisy chatter about ...