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 ...
Racial Discrimination Act and Free Speech– Carte Blanche or Fair and Reasonable – Where are Human Rights in all This?Australia, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionProfessor George Williams has noted ‘the fact that freedom of speech receives no general protection in Australian ...
Recognising Travellers’ Needs: The Courts Begin to MoveUnited Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationAre courts beginning to recognize the duty of equality law to respect and protect the rights of minorities to be ...
The Geography of International Law and the Cyber DomainUnited States of America, Conflict and Human Rights, Right to PrivacyThe geographical scope of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) has engaged the interest of IHL experts for some years ...
Constitutional Court of South Africa: Blunting the Impact of Electoral Law on Freedom of ExpressionSouth Africa, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to VoteThe Constitutional Court of South Africa has undertaken a robust defence of freedom of expression at the time of ...
Hutchinson v UK – A Change in Direction on Whole Life Orders?European Convention on Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right against TortureThe European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in Hutchinson v UK that the imposition of a ‘whole life ...