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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 ...

Another Failed Execution: The United States’ Strained Relationship with the Right to Life

Another Failed Execution: The United States’ Strained Relationship with the Right to Life

United Nations, United States, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death Penalty, Human Dignity, Right to Life

At 73 years of age, Thomas Creech is Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate. He entered prison in 1974 and was ...

Beyond State Responsibility: The Trafigura Case and Corporate Accountability in Africa

Beyond State Responsibility: The Trafigura Case and Corporate Accountability in Africa

African Charter on Human and People's Rights, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Environment, Right to Health, Right to healthy environment, Right to Information, Right to Life,

Over the last few decades, there has been global recognition that corporations yield considerable social, economic ...

Women’s Invisible Labour, Kinkeeping and Care: Ireland’s 8 March Constitutional Referendum

Women’s Invisible Labour, Kinkeeping and Care: Ireland’s 8 March Constitutional Referendum

Ireland, United Nations, Children's Rights, Disability, Gender, Role of the Judiciary, Socio-Economic Rights, Substantive Equality

On International Women’s Day, Ireland will hold votes on two proposed changes to Article 41 of the Constitution. ...

Coming of Age: The Establishment of 18 as the Legal Minimum Age for Marriage

Coming of Age: The Establishment of 18 as the Legal Minimum Age for Marriage

United Nations, Children's Rights, Gender

Recent reports from the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) highlight a global decline ...

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