Mmusi Ruling a Watershed Moment for Gender and Customary Law in Botswana and BeyondBotswana, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn September 3rd, the Court of Appeal in Botswana decided that Edith Mmusi’s parents’ home belonged to her and her ...
Criminalising Cross-Dressing in Guyana: Quincy McEwan et al vs. Attorney General of GuyanaGuyana, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination2013 has been a busy year for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights (LGBT) in the Commonwealth Caribbean. ...
Bugmy v The Queen: Exploring the Significance of Indigenous Background in SentencingAustralia, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialBugmy v The Queen provides the High Court of Australia with its first opportunity in thirty years to rule on the ...
The Québec Charter of Values Project: Republican or Immigrant-phobic?Canada, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of ReligionTuesday, September 10 2013, the Government of Québec finally released its Strategy aimed at protecting the Values ...
The CEDAW Committee Holds an Uncomfortable Mirror to the UKUnited Kingdom, Access to Justice, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn July 26th, 2013 the CEDAW Committee released concluding observations on the UK’s compliance with CEDAW. The UK ...
Guantanamo Military Commissions: Reflections from a Legal Observer – Part 1United States of America, Conflict and Human Rights, Counter-terrorismThere is perhaps no more controversial space in the world than the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For ...
Cultivating a Common Bond: The Right to Adequate Education in South Africa and the United StatesSouth Africa, United States of America, Right to Education, Socio-Economic RightsAs the newest wave of education adequacy litigation crashes upon the shores of South Africa, courts there face the ...
A New Role for Businesses in Safeguarding Human RightsUnited Nations, Business and Human RightsThis summer, the European Commission published industry-specific guidelines on the implementation of the UN ...
Spatial Justice in South African Evictions JurisprudenceSouth Africa, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic RightsApartheid’s legacy has entrenched patterns of spatial injustice in South Africa. Poor, overwhelmingly black ...
Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision and Act (Report of the Canadian Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee, August 2013)Canada, Access to JusticeThe year is 2030 and all people living in Canada have equal access to justice regardless of means, capacity or ...
The Human Rights Restoration-RevolutionEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Constitutions and Human RightsMuch of the work in the now burgeoning subfield of human rights history traces the causes and consequences of the ...
Humanitarian Intervention? – International Law and the Non-Use of Force in SyriaUnited Kingdom, Conflict and Human RightsThe UK House of Commons voted by a slim majority (13 votes) against UK involvement in direct military action in ...