Nothing About Detention Without Detainees: Participation as a Tool of PreventionUnited Nations, Human Dignity, Prisoners rights, Right to ParticipationDetention policies are routinely designed, implemented, and evaluated by people who have never experienced ...
La vivienda y el derecho de propiedad: financiarización, turistificación y comunidades localesEngland and Wales, Greece, Italy, Spain, Property, Right to HousingEl derecho a la vivienda y el derecho de propiedad suelen entenderse como derechos en conflicto, de tal forma que ...
Housing and the Right to Property: Financialisation, Touristification, and Local CommunitiesEngland and Wales, Greece, Italy, Spain, Property, Right to HousingThe right to housing and the right to property are often understood as being in conflict, with the protection of ...
Can National Human Rights Institutions Hold Governments Accountable Without Institutional Independence? Lessons from Bangladesh’s NHRC Bill 2026Bangladesh, Guarantor Institutions, institutionsOn 20 December 1993, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Paris Principles, which established a simple ...
CERD’s Findings on India: Addressing Procedural Bottlenecks in Prosecuting Police Atrocities against Marginalised CommunitiesConvention on the Elimination of Race Discrimination, India, Cultural rights, Minority RightsThe United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) in its recent findings has ...
Due Diligence or Judicial Presumptions: Re-categorizing Rape in Hassan Khan v. The StateConvention on Discrimination against Women, Pakistan, Gender Based Violence, Sexual ViolenceWhile analyzing gender-based violence (GBV) in Pakistan, human rights discourse frequently focuses on statutory ...
Beyond the Binary: Judicial Review of Transgender Athlete BansUSA, Equality Law, Intermediate Scrutiny, LGBTQ Rights, Proportionality, SCOTUS, Transgender AthletesOn June 30, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court decided West Virginia v. B.P.J., a pivotal ruling on transgender ...
Forced Labour as a Human Rights Failure: Legal Gaps Exposed by the July 2026 Haryana NHRC HearingIndia, Forced Labour, Freedom of Movement, Labour RightsOn July 9th, 2026, the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) heard 86 cases of alleged bonded labour at ...
Passive Euthanasia after Harish Rana: The Right to Health at the End of LifeIndia, Bodily autonomy, Euthanasia, Human DignityIn a landmark ruling in March 2026, the Supreme Court of India in Harish Rana v Union of India permitted ...
Housing and Human Rights FuturesAustralia, New Zealand, United Nations, human rights, Right to HousingThis brilliant book, ‘Housing and Human Rights’ by Jessie Hohmann, is a model of theory and practice. It concludes ...
Asset-Based Welfare as Housing Injustice, and a Human Rights ResponseAustralia, Human Dignity, Indigenous Rights, Right to HousingEarlier this year, a newborn infant died at an informal encampment of unhoused people in the town of Wagga Wagga, ...
Platform Blocking and the Absent Rights-Holder: Telegram v Union of IndiaEuropean Court of Human Rights, India, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Proportionality, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionIndia recently blocked public access to Telegram for all Indian users under Section 69A of the Information ...