Inequality and Discrimination faced by Religious Minorities in PakistanPakistan, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Socio-Economic RightsPakistan is one of the worst countries to live in as a member of a religious minority group, due to the lack of ...
Socioeconomic rights researchers, advocates and practitioners gather at Åbo Akademi UniversitySocio-Economic RightsThrough this blog, I share what I have learned from recently attending a week long advanced course on the ...
The Majority Judgment in Miller: Vulnerable but DefensibleUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe UK Supreme Court concluded yesterday, by an 8–3 majority, that legislation is needed for Article 50 to be ...
Miller: A Vital Reaffirmation of Parliamentary SovereigntyUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsIn a ringing defence of the power of Parliament against the executive, the Supreme Court today held that the ...
Environmental Human Rights in the Trump Era: Modes of Resistance and ReformUnited States of America, Environment, Right to Food and Water, Right to HealthThe ecological ramifications of the Trump administration may well prove catastrophic. Climate change denial and ...
Donald Trump is President: What are the Implications for the Death Penalty?United States of America, Death PenaltyPrior to the election of Donald Trump, death penalty abolitionists were quietly confident that capital punishment ...
Access to information in order to speak freely: Is this a right under the European Convention?European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionIf access to government information is “necessary” for you to investigate and communicate about matters of ...
Foreign Legal Assistance applications: a strategy to advance accountability for transnational human rights abusesMexico, United States of America, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, EnvironmentIn 2014, 40 million liters of toxic mining waste spilled from the Buenavista del Cobre copper mine into the ...
Work of Oxford Pro Bono Publico for UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention receives Supreme Court backingUnited Kingdom, Access to Justice, Counter-terrorism, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right against TortureAfter a record long gestation period the Supreme Court today handed down its judgment in Belhaj v Jack Straw & ...
Child marriage and sexual assault of children in Turkey – does public opinion matter?Turkey, Children's Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, GenderThe issue of child marriage and sexual abuse of children in Turkey has once again been placed in the spotlight, ...
A Strong Voice For Women: The CEDAW Committee Reviews CanadaUnited Nations, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic RightsFor the first time in eight years the Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...
Iran’s Criminalization of Human Rights Defenders: The Case of Narges MohammadiIran, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of Association, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionThe “harassment” of human rights defenders’ and “criminalization” of their activities in Iran has become common ...