The Struggle to Establish Human Rights Courts in India: An Unfulfilled PromiseIndia, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of ReviewA petition was filed by Bhavika Phore on July 8, 2019, in the Supreme Court of India seeking to solidify human ...
Disability-Selective Abortions – A Double-Edged Sword? High Court of England and Wales Gives Ruling on the Conflict Between Rights of Disabled Persons and Women’s Reproductive ChoiceEuropean Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Abortion, Disability, GenderIn Crowter & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care [2021] EWHC 2536 ...
The Colonial and Casteist Undertones of Policing in Madhya Pradesh, IndiaIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death Penalty, Race, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project studied two sets of data to examine the criminal justice ...
Unpacking the Limitations of a Reform-Based Approach and Contextualising Prison Abolition in IndiaIndia, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer for allegedly forging a $20 dollar bill, ...
Emerging from the COVID 19 Pandemic: What role for the Forgotten Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions in the ICESCR?United Nations, Access to Justice, COVID-19, Environment, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Social Protection, Socio-Economic RightsAs the world confronts the devastating impact of the COVID pandemic it must tackle the thorny related problems of ...
Indian Supreme Court Strengthens Right to Education for Children with DisabilitiesIndia, Children's Rights, Disability, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn a judgment delivered on 28 October 2021, the Indian Supreme Court took an important step in the direction of ...
Defending legality in judicial appointments: The European Court of Human Rights and the Polish constitutional crisis [Part 2]Poland, Constitutions and Human Rights, Role of the JudiciaryThis is what happened in Poland. The Supreme Court made a preliminary reference about the appointment of the ...
Defending legality in judicial appointments: The European Court of Human Rights and the Polish constitutional crisis [Part1]European Convention on Human Rights, Poland, Constitutions and Human Rights, Role of the JudiciaryThat the Polish constitutional crisis would have had serious human-rights implications was clear from the start. ...
Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan declares the custom of Swara as un-Islamic and unconstitutionalPakistan, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 25 October 2021, a three-judge bench of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan (FSC) headed by the FSC Chief ...
Protocol No. 15 to the ECHR: a new era of subsidiarity or a symbolic change?European Convention on Human Rights, Standard of ReviewProtocol No. 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights came into force in August 2021. It introduced several ...
The Global Gag Rule Violates Human Rights, We Need a Permanent SolutionUnited States, Abortion, Gender, Right to Health, Right to Privacy, Sexual and Reproductive RightsThe Global Gag Rule (GGR or Mexico City Policy) is a regressive, harmful policy that violates the human rights of ...
The Lens of Reformation in Death Penalty Cases: A Complex EnquiryIndia, Death PenaltyAs per the guidelines laid down by the Indian Supreme Court in Bachan Singh v. The State of Punjab and subsequent ...