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Testing the Limits of the Right to Peaceful Demonstration under the 2010 Constitution: Kenya’s 2024 Finance Bill

Testing the Limits of the Right to Peaceful Demonstration under the 2010 Constitution: Kenya’s 2024 Finance Bill

Kenya, Right to Freedom of Assembly, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Privacy, Right to Protest, Socio-Economic Rights

Kenya has for the past three weeks been thrust into the international scene due to demonstrations under the ...

The Ahmadiyya in Pakistan: Religious Persecution, Human Rights, and Islam

The Ahmadiyya in Pakistan: Religious Persecution, Human Rights, and Islam

Pakistan, Constitutions and Human Rights, Cultural rights, Death Penalty, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Association, Right to Freedom of Religion, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Life, Right to work, Socio-Economic Rights

The Ahmadiyya are a religious minority who suffer persecution in Pakistan and many other Muslim-majority ...

Responsabilidad Corporativa por Violaciones de Derechos Humanos Internacionales en las Cortes de los Estados Unidos: El Litigio de Chiquita Marcas

Responsabilidad Corporativa por Violaciones de Derechos Humanos Internacionales en las Cortes de los Estados Unidos: El Litigio de Chiquita Marcas

United States of America, Business and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Life, Role of the Judiciary

El 10 de junio de 2024, el innovador juicio federal estadounidense, Chiquita Marcas Internacional, Inc., Litigio ...

Corporate Accountability for International Human Rights Violations in US Courts: The Chiquita Brands Litigation

Corporate Accountability for International Human Rights Violations in US Courts: The Chiquita Brands Litigation

United States of America, Business and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Life, Role of the Judiciary

On 10 June 2024, the groundbreaking US federal trial, Chiquita Brands International, Inc., Alien Tort Statute and ...

Register of Damage for Ukraine: A Vital Yet Challenging Step Towards Justice

Register of Damage for Ukraine: A Vital Yet Challenging Step Towards Justice

Council of Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Access to Justice, Conflict and Human Rights

Ukraine has endured unprecedented levels of destruction and human rights violations since the onset of Russian ...

Indirect Criminalisation of Homelessness: Justice Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson

Indirect Criminalisation of Homelessness: Justice Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson

United States, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Homelessness, Right to Housing, Role of the Judiciary

Homelessness continues to disproportionately affect the most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations in the US ...

The US Supreme Court’s ‘Grants Pass’ Decision: A Reflection of Broader Problems with Affordable Housing

The US Supreme Court’s ‘Grants Pass’ Decision: A Reflection of Broader Problems with Affordable Housing

United States, Homelessness, Positive Duties, Right to Housing, Role of the Judiciary

The decision of the US Supreme Court (‘the Court’) in City of Grants Pass v Johnson allows cities to impose ...

The Right to Water in the European Blue Deal: A New Constitutional Challenge

The Right to Water in the European Blue Deal: A New Constitutional Challenge

European Union, Constitutions and Human Rights, Environment, Human Dignity, Right to Food and Water, Socio-Economic Rights, Substantive Equality

There is a narrow catalogue of goods and values which represent fundamental importance for human survival, dignity ...

Al Hassan Acquitted of Gender Persecution at the ICC

Al Hassan Acquitted of Gender Persecution at the ICC

International Criminal Court, Mali, Gender Based Violence, Gender Persecution, Public International Law

On 26 June 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Mr Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag ...

Abrahart v University of Bristol: Disability Equality in University Assessments – Part 2

Abrahart v University of Bristol: Disability Equality in University Assessments – Part 2

United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Disability, Human Dignity, Procedural Justice, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, , Standard of Review, Substantive Equality

The first part of this blog discussed the context and facts of the case of Abrahart, as well as how the judgment ...

Abrahart v University of Bristol: Disability Equality in University Assessments – Part 1

Abrahart v University of Bristol: Disability Equality in University Assessments – Part 1

United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Disability, Human Dignity, Procedural Justice, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, , Standard of Review, Substantive Equality

The case of Abrahart, with its tragic facts and powerful judgment, will emit shockwaves throughout post-16 ...

In Search of Lost Climes: the Historic Litigation in Navahine v Hawai‘i

In Search of Lost Climes: the Historic Litigation in Navahine v Hawai‘i

Hawai'i, United States, Climate Change, Climate justice, Right to healthy environment, Role of the Judiciary, Socio-Economic Rights

In what has been described as a ‘world first’ in constitutional climate litigation, youth plaintiffs from Hawai‘i ...

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