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National Security Laws from a Common Law Perspective: Insights from the Recent Triumph of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China

National Security Laws from a Common Law Perspective: Insights from the Recent Triumph of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China

Hong Kong, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of Association, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the “Alliance”) emerged as one of ...

Violence Against Women and the ECHR: Addressing Evidential Gaps in the Court’s Jurisprudence

Violence Against Women and the ECHR: Addressing Evidential Gaps in the Court’s Jurisprudence

European Convention on Human Rights, Domestic Violence, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, Women's Rights

Recent research indicates that the rates of femicide by partners or family members have differed only slightly in ...

Climate Injustice: International Response to the Indigenous Women Experiences

Climate Injustice: International Response to the Indigenous Women Experiences

International Law, Climate Change, Climate justice, Gender Equality, Indigenous Rights, Women's Rights

Climate change is one of the most challenging threats humans face. It acts as a “threat multiplier,” intensifying ...

The Global Gag Rule as a Human Rights Crisis: Restricting Autonomy and Healthcare Access

The Global Gag Rule as a Human Rights Crisis: Restricting Autonomy and Healthcare Access

United States of America, Abortion, Access to Justice, Gender, Gender Equality, Human Dignity, Intersectionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, , Substantive Equality

In January 2025, the newly inaugurated Trump administration reaffirmed and broadened the so-called Global Gag Rule ...

The Crime Against Humanity of Gender Persecution: A First Beam of Light for Afghan Women and Girls

The Crime Against Humanity of Gender Persecution: A First Beam of Light for Afghan Women and Girls

Afghanistan, Civil and political rights, Economic, Gender Equality, International Criminal Law, , Women's Rights

The application by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for arrest warrants ...

Discarding the Marital Rape Exemption: From Fundamental Rights to Vulnerability Theory

Discarding the Marital Rape Exemption: From Fundamental Rights to Vulnerability Theory

India, Supreme Court of India, Criminal Justice, Gender, Gender Based Violence, Gender Equality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Recently, in Gorakhnth Sharma v. State of Chhattisgarh, the Chhattisgarh High Court acquitted a man, who allegedly ...

Individualised Risk Assessments and the Principle of Non-Refoulement: Why States Cannot Rush to Return Refugees and Asylum Seekers Back to Syria

Individualised Risk Assessments and the Principle of Non-Refoulement: Why States Cannot Rush to Return Refugees and Asylum Seekers Back to Syria

Syria, United Nations, European Convention on Human Rights, ICCPR, Immigration and Asylum, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Refugee Convention, Right to Seek Asylum

The principle of non-refoulement – a principle of international law in the Refugee Convention, the International ...

Individual Criminal Responsibility of the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh for Crimes Against Humanity

Individual Criminal Responsibility of the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh for Crimes Against Humanity

Bangladesh, Crimes Against Humanity, Criminal Justice, Custodial Violence, International Criminal Law, Right against Torture

Regrettably, the former government of Bangladesh, under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, committed ...

Bromwell Street: Constitutional Court judgment moves one step closer to a socially and spatially just South Africa

Bromwell Street: Constitutional Court judgment moves one step closer to a socially and spatially just South Africa

South Africa, Right to Housing

On 20 December 2024, South Africa’s Constitutional Court (‘Court’) handed down a landmark judgment in Commando and ...

Human Rights Under the New Syrian Government: Progress or Peril?

Human Rights Under the New Syrian Government: Progress or Peril?

Syria, United Nations, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender Equality, Legislative Reform, Property, Transitional Justice

The rise of a new government in Syria following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024 has ...

India’s Fight Against Sexual Harassment: SHe-Box’s Big Promises Leaves Bigger Gaps

India’s Fight Against Sexual Harassment: SHe-Box’s Big Promises Leaves Bigger Gaps

India, Access to Justice, Gender, Gender Equality, Gender identity, Human Dignity, Intersectionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, , Standard of Review, Substantive Equality

SHe-Box (Sexual Harassment electronic-Box), launched in 2017 under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace ...

The International Criminal Court’s Pursuit of Accountability for Gender Persecution in Afghanistan: A Landmark Step for Justice (Part II)

The International Criminal Court’s Pursuit of Accountability for Gender Persecution in Afghanistan: A Landmark Step for Justice (Part II)

Afghanistan, International Criminal Court, United Nations, Access to Justice, Conflict and Human Rights, Gender, Human Dignity, International Criminal Law, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Life, , Standard of Review

On January 23, 2025, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a formal statement concluding ...

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