Transsexual Persons Can Get Married in Hong Kong in a Year’s TimeHong Kong, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 16th July, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in W v. The Registrar of Marriages made a declaration that the ...
Bringing balance to the international law with long-term perspectivesUnited Nations, Business and Human Rights, EnvironmentEditor’s Note: This post is a follow-up to an earlier post by Karen Moir prior to the July 4th and 5th conference ...
The Liberty-Equality Debate: Comparing the Lawrence and Naz Foundation RulingsIndia, United States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy, Sexual OrientationLast month marked the 10 year anniversary of Lawrence v Texas, where the US Supreme Court ruled that laws that ...
Denying Education is Denying Survival: the Case of the Nasa PeopleColombia, Right to Education, Socio-Economic RightsColombia has a modern constitutional system that recognizes and protects the ethnic and cultural diversity that ...
Justice Edwin Cameron on the United Nations Free and Equal CampaignSouth Africa, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationOn Friday 26th July, in Cape Town, the United Nations launched a new international campaign to counter homophobia, ...
Human Rights and Community Justice: A View from Red Hook, BrooklynUnited States of America, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialThe Red Hook Community Justice Center (RHCJC), the small community court in Brooklyn, New York, seems miles away ...
Proposed Bahamian Constitutional Reform: No Room for Socio-Economic RightsBahamas, Socio-Economic Rights, Standard of ReviewOn July 8, 2013, the Constitutional Commission of the Bahamas presented its report on proposed Constitutional ...
The choice before us? The report of the Commission on a Bill of RightsUnited Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsIn an article recently published in Public Law, Prof. Francesca Klug and I set out our analysis of the ill-fated ...
Is it Time for the US Supreme Court to Come Out of the Closet?United States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual Orientation, Standard of ReviewIn a follow-up post to his previous analysis of Windsor v. United States, Karl Laird examines which constitutional ...
Mendoza v Argentina: Against the life imprisonment of childrenAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Children's Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right against TortureIn Mendoza et al. v. Argentina, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR) has determined that life sentences ...
McCaughey and Others v UK: The Requirement of Prompt Investigation into State KillingsEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to LifeArticle 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights guarantees, subject to some exceptions, that “everyone’s ...
The Anniversary of the Marikana Massacre in South Africa and Corporate Accountability for Human Rights BreachesSouth Africa, Business and Human RightsIt is almost a year since more than 40 striking mineworkers were killed in a clash with local police at the ...