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 ...
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 ...
Professor Frances Raday Comments on SAS v FranceEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of ReligionIn the Grand Chamber judgment in the case of S.A.S. v. France, the European Court of Human Rights held, by a ...
SAS v France in Context: the margin of appreciation doctrine and protection of minoritiesEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to Freedom of ReligionIn SAS v France the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that a French law ...