Recognising Maternity Leave as a Human Rights ObligationUnited Nations, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationPaid maternity leave is routinely argued as necessary to achieve gender equality in the workplace. Article ...
Clinical Legal Education as an Access to Justice InnovationUnited Kingdom, Access to JusticeImagine you got grant funding to develop an access to justice research agenda. Your grant application proposes the ...
Searching for the “T” in LGBT AdvocacyUnited Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn August 30, 2014, the prominent UK lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) rights group, Stonewall, held a workshop with ...
Searching for the "T" in LGBT AdvocacyUnited Kingdom, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationOn August 30, 2014, the prominent UK lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) rights group, Stonewall, held a workshop with ...
Civil Society Wants its Voice Heard in Post-2015 DevelopmentUnited Nations, Constitutions and Human RightsDuring the last week of August the UN headquarters in New York was effectively taken over by civil society. Over ...
The Plight of Indo-Pak Fishermen and the Need to Appreciate Economic RightsPakistan, Socio-Economic RightsThe recent decision of the Pakistan Government to release 57 boats of arrested Indian fishermen is a welcome move. ...
Vulture Funds: the Real Dimension of the Controversy from a Human Rights PerspectiveArgentina, Business and Human Rights, Socio-Economic RightsWhile a lot of perspectives (economic, political, legal and even diplomatic) have been brought to the table ...
Los “fondos buitre” y la verdadera dimensión de la controversia desde una perspectiva de derechos humanosArgentina, Business and Human Rights, Socio-Economic RightsDespués de que la República de Argentina dejó de pagar su deuda externa en 2001, el 92,4% de los bonistas aceptó ...
Iraq Needs Incisive Measures from the UN Security CouncilIraq, Conflict and Human RightsThe current US military operations in Northern Iraq, resisting troops belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and ...
Histórica Decisión de CEDAW en un Caso de Violencia de GéneroUnited Nations, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationEn su reciente decisión sobre el caso de Ángela González, una mujer española superviviente de la violencia de ...
CEDAW Issues a Historic Ruling in a Gender Violence CaseUnited Nations, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn its recent ruling on the case of Ángela González, a Spanish gender violence survivor who fought for years to ...
Gays: a Prohibited Class in CARICOM?Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Immigration and Asylum, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationIn the western hemisphere, only 11 Caribbean states still criminalize private consensual adult same-gender ...