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The Aberdeen housing crisis: Cementing housing rights in Scotland

The Aberdeen housing crisis: Cementing housing rights in Scotland

South Africa, United Kingdom, United Nations, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Disability, Human Dignity, Intersectionality, Right to healthy environment, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic Rights

In February 2024, hundreds of residents of privately and council-owned houses in Aberdeen began being moved out of ...

If Frozen Embryos Are Unborn Children Then What Is IVF’s Future in the United States?

If Frozen Embryos Are Unborn Children Then What Is IVF’s Future in the United States?

United States, Abortion, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Intersectionality, Right to Freedom of Religion, Right to Privacy, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Substantive Equality

In Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v ...

The Fundamental Rights of Trans and Nonbinary Minors in Schools: Challenges in Canada

The Fundamental Rights of Trans and Nonbinary Minors in Schools: Challenges in Canada

Canada, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Gender identity, Intersectionality, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual Orientation

The pernicious instinct to roll back the rights of trans and nonbinary folks for political gain has ...

The Enshrinement of Abortion in the French Constitution. Kairos: Dobbs as a window of opportunity? (Part I)

The Enshrinement of Abortion in the French Constitution. Kairos: Dobbs as a window of opportunity? (Part I)

France, Abortion, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

On 8 March 2024, the sealing ceremony for the 25th amendment to the French Constitution of 1958 took place at the ...

The Enshrinement of Abortion in the French Constitution. Phronesis: after the celebration, a call for caution (Part II)

The Enshrinement of Abortion in the French Constitution. Phronesis: after the celebration, a call for caution (Part II)

France, Abortion, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

The first part of this blog examined the process that led to the amendment that enshrined abortion in the French ...

Tide Turning on Australia’s Inadequate Climate Policy? A Challenge from First Nations Peoples in the Torres Strait

Tide Turning on Australia’s Inadequate Climate Policy? A Challenge from First Nations Peoples in the Torres Strait

Australia, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Cultural rights, Environment, Human Dignity, Indigenous Rights, Right to healthy environment, Socio-Economic Rights, Substantive Equality

The low-lying islands of Zendath Kes (Torres Strait) are the frontlines of the climate crisis. Without action, ...

Threats to Judicial Independence and Impartiality: The Attack on Mexico’s Supreme Court

Threats to Judicial Independence and Impartiality: The Attack on Mexico’s Supreme Court

Mexico, Access to Justice, Judges' Legacy, Role of the Judiciary,

When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced his government plan, he formally promised to respect ...

AI and Global Development: The Role of Economic and Social Rights

AI and Global Development: The Role of Economic and Social Rights

European Union, Global North, Global South, United Nations, World Bank, Artificial Intelligence, Business and Human Rights, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Health, Right to Privacy, , Socio-Economic Rights, Substantive Equality, Technology and human rights

As policymakers in the Global North prepare to introduce binding horizontal AI regulation, increasing attention is ...

Artificial Intelligence: The Need to Update the Equality Act 2010

Artificial Intelligence: The Need to Update the Equality Act 2010

United Kingdom, Artificial Intelligence, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy, Substantive Equality

The Equality Act 2010 is not keeping up with the developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The United Kingdom ...

How can we guard against AI-generated discrimination?

How can we guard against AI-generated discrimination?

European Union, United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Intersectionality, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy, , Technology and human rights

One of the most commonly expressed concerns about AI systems is their capacity to produce unfairly discriminatory ...

La Belgique criminalise l’écocide: une (imparfaite) première européenne

La Belgique criminalise l’écocide: une (imparfaite) première européenne

Belgium, European Union, International Criminal Court, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, United States, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Environment, Right to healthy environment

Le 22 février 2024, la Belgique a marqué l’histoire en adoptant un nouveau code pénal criminalisant l’écocide dans ...

Belgium Recognises the Crime of Ecocide: A (Lukewarm) European First

Belgium Recognises the Crime of Ecocide: A (Lukewarm) European First

Belgium, European Union, International Criminal Court, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, United States, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Environment, Right to healthy environment

On 22 February 2024, Belgium made history by adopting a new penal code that criminalises ‘ecocide’ at the national ...

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