Reporting Restrictions in Criminal Cases Involving JuvenilesUnited Kingdom, Children's Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionOn 3 November 2014 Will Cornick was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years imprisonment for the murder of his teacher ...
Egyptian Human Rights Groups Face Difficult Choices After Al-Sisi’s UltimatumEgypt, Constitutions and Human RightsA Mubarak-era law stating that human rights groups must register has been utilised by President al-Sisi’s ...
Finance and Human Rights: Developments in Brazil and PeruBrazil, Peru, Business and Human Rights, EnvironmentIn December 2014, governments, businesses and civil society gathered at the Palais des Nations, the UN’s ...
Implementing the Right to Education Through the Courts: The Legal Resources Centre and Oxford University Host Workshop on Remedies and EnforcementSouth Africa, Right to Education, Role of the Judiciary, Socio-Economic RightsThe courts are a very effective tool in enforcing socio-economic rights and filling gaps so often left by ...
Valuing the Work of Community Lawyers’ to Resolve Systemic Problems – The Productivity Commission Report on Access to Justice Arrangements in AustraliaAustralia, Access to JusticeIn the past decade or more in Australia, creeping managerialism and efforts to reduce funding of services under ...
Nonsense on Stilts? Tommy the Chimp’s Legal Battle for ‘Non-Human Person Rights’ in the New York CourtsUnited States of America, Constitutions and Human RightsTommy has been imprisoned for most of his life. Locked in a room in upstate New York, he has no money and cannot ...
The Benefits of Using Equality and Non-Discrimination Strategies in Litigating Economic and Social Rights – New Guide PublishedRight to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic RightsSocio-economic inequality is the biggest human rights and development challenge today. At the Equal Rights Trust ...
Court Makes Unprecedented Step Appointing “Claims Administrator” to Ensure State Compliance with Court OrderSouth Africa, Right to Education, Role of the Judiciary, Socio-Economic RightsA landmark judgement handed down on 12th December 2014 in the case of Linkside & Others v Minister of ...
Capital Punishment in China: Room for Cautious Optimism?China, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death Penalty, Right against Torture, Right to LifeRecent weeks have seen the resumption of executions in Jordan, after an 8-year de facto moratorium, and in ...
Human Rights and the Arms Trade TreatyUnited Nations, Conflict and Human RightsRegular readers of the blog will recall previous posts from Dr Gilles Giacca on the Arms Trade Treaty, which was ...
The Family Agenda: Promoting Traditional Values in the Human Rights CouncilUnited Nations, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 23 June 2014, the Human Rights Council decided, through its resolution 26/11, to convene a panel discussion on ...
‘Right to Justice’ Deprived by State: Case of ‘Manorama Vs AFSPA’ from Manipur, IndiaIndia, Conflict and Human RightsRecently, the Supreme Court of India, in a case related to Thangjam Manorama Manipur, (who was allegedly killed in ...