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Unpaid Interns in the New York Courts: Time to Start Spreading the News?

Unpaid Interns in the New York Courts: Time to Start Spreading the News?

United States of America, Labour Rights

Seen most cynically, employers deploy the label “intern” to give the impression that worker protection laws do not ...

European Court of Human Rights Says Dismissal of HIV-positive Employee is Incompatible with the Convention

European Court of Human Rights Says Dismissal of HIV-positive Employee is Incompatible with the Convention

European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In the case of I.B. v. Greece, the European Court of Human Rights held that the dismissal of an HIV-positive ...

Marikana Funding Decision – A Victory for Justice, Fairness and Equality

Marikana Funding Decision – A Victory for Justice, Fairness and Equality

South Africa, Access to Justice

In the wake of the Marikana tragedy, during which 40 striking mineworkers were shot and killed by the South ...

UN Resolution on Women’s Involvement in Conflict-Prevention: a Move Towards Participative Equality for Women in Conflict Zones

UN Resolution on Women’s Involvement in Conflict-Prevention: a Move Towards Participative Equality for Women in Conflict Zones

United Nations, Conflict and Human Rights, Gender

Earlier this month, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2122, designed to highlight the ...

Wedding Crashers in Canberra?

Wedding Crashers in Canberra?

Australia, Sexual Orientation

The Australian Capital Territory made Australian history this week as the first Australian jurisdiction to provide ...

Bridging The Divide? Integrating the Functions of National Equality Bodies and National Human Rights Institutions in the EU

Bridging The Divide? Integrating the Functions of National Equality Bodies and National Human Rights Institutions in the EU

European Union, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

National equality bodies (NEBs) and national human rights institutions (NHRIs) play important roles in promoting ...

New Bill Shifts Focus to Survivors of Human Trafficking

New Bill Shifts Focus to Survivors of Human Trafficking

Scotland, Immigration and Asylum, Labour Rights

Earlier this year, I interviewed a group of young Bangladeshi men who had been trafficked into Scotland to work in ...

The Tasmanian Dams Case, 30 Years On – Unfulfilled Promises

The Tasmanian Dams Case, 30 Years On – Unfulfilled Promises

Australia, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

The landmark Australian Tasmanian Dams case celebrated its 30th anniversary in August 2013. This case was a ...

Disenfranchising the Disenfranchised? – Appeal Rights in the Immigration Bill 2013

Disenfranchising the Disenfranchised? – Appeal Rights in the Immigration Bill 2013

United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Immigration and Asylum

The first immigration bill to be published in four years was introduced in the House of Commons on 10 October ...

Al-Jedda: Judicial Commitment to the Universal Application of the Right to a Nationality

Al-Jedda: Judicial Commitment to the Universal Application of the Right to a Nationality

United Kingdom, Immigration and Asylum

The Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 provides that the Secretary of State may, as a general rule, ...

The Bedroom Tax: the First Six Months

The Bedroom Tax: the First Six Months

United Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic Rights

Editor's Note: Over the past few weeks we have featured posts on various aspects of the controversial 'bedroom ...

Indian Supreme Court Upholds the Right to Negative Voting

Indian Supreme Court Upholds the Right to Negative Voting

India, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Vote

In late September, the Indian Supreme Court, in PUCL v. Union of India, upheld the constitutional right of ...

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