Judicial Experimentation and Public Policy: A New Approach to the Right to Education in BrazilBrazil, Right to Education, Role of the Judiciary, Socio-Economic RightsShould judges interfere with the enforcement of public policies implemented by the executive? If yes, what would ...
Hämäläinen v Finland: The Transgender Divorce Requirement in StrasbourgEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn the landmark 2002 decision, Goodwin v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”), citing an ...
Europol and the Fight Against Human TraffickingEuropean Union, Labour RightsOn Tuesday 24th June the Human Trafficking Discussion Group (under the umbrella of the Oxford Migration Studies ...
The Sustainable Development Goals: a new vision of development?United Nations, Constitutions and Human RightsOn 19 July, after eighteen months of fraught negotiation, a UN Open Working Group of seventy governments adopted a ...
La reforma constitucional en materia de derechos humanos en México y la impunidad: las víctimas en el laberintoMexico, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialLa situación de derechos humanos en México ha sufrido un deterioro notorio en los últimos años debido a múltiples ...
The Mexican Human Rights Constitutional Amendment and Impunity: Victims in a LabyrinthMexico, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialThe human rights situation in Mexico has suffered a notorious deterioration in the past few years due to multiple ...
Presumptive Costs Orders: A Threat to Public Interest Interventions (Part II)United Kingdom, Access to JusticeIn a previous post, I reviewed the terms of the Government’s proposed new costs rule for interventions (cl 67, ...
UN sanctions: possible changes?United Nations, Counter-terrorism, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialIn the last 20 years, the UN Security Council has adopted numerous sanctions not involving the use of armed ...
Presumptive Costs Orders: A Threat to Public Interest Interventions (Part I)United Kingdom, Access to JusticeThe Criminal Justice and Courts Bill received its second reading in the House of Lords on 30 June 2014 and has now ...
Religious anti-gay refusal – valuing dissent without making it lawfulUnited Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Sexual OrientationAccording to Supreme Court judge, Lady Hale, the law has yet to find the right balance between accommodating ...
The Problem of Progressive Realization – Protecting the Rights of the Disabled in JamaicaJamaica, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic RightsJamaica boasts of being the first country in the world to both sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on ...
Malawi's Electoral FiascoMalawi, Right to VoteClose to midnight on 30 May 2014, Prof Peter Mutharika was declared the winner of the fifth presidential elections ...