Disappointing Departures from the Verma Committee ReportIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender The Union Cabinet of the Government of India has cleared an ordinance making changes to India’s rape ...
The Hidden Face of Forced Labour in BritainUnited Kingdom, Immigration and Asylum, Labour RightsAs previous posts on the OxHRH Blog have highlighted, trafficking for forced labour remains a hot-button issue in ...
Clarifying the Law on Consent in The Verma ReportIndia, GenderAfter the tragedy of the gang rape in Delhi on December 16, 2012, the Committee on Amendments to Criminal Law (The ...
The Future of Human Rights on These IslandsUnited Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsNow that the idea of a new UK Bill of Rights appears to be buried, choices re-emerge. The predicted outcome of the ...
Are only the 'discrete and insular' subject to prejudice?: An analysis of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group's brief in Windsor v United StatesUnited States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationIn the wake of the introduction of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in the UK last week, Karl Laird continues ...
Are only the ‘discrete and insular’ subject to prejudice?: An analysis of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group’s brief in Windsor v United StatesUnited States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationIn the wake of the introduction of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in the UK last week, Karl Laird continues ...
The Justice JS Verma Committee Report on Amendments to Criminal Law relating to Sexual Violence in India- Preliminary ObservationsIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, GenderThe Justice JS Verma Committee, set up by the Government of India after the horrific gang-rape in Delhi on ...
R (Hodkin): A Signal to Rethink Religious WorshipUnited Kingdom, Right to Freedom of ReligionBy Ilias Trispiotis In R (on the application of Hodkin) v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages ...
Eweida and Others v United Kingdom: the Use and Abuse of the Margin of AppreciationEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Standard of ReviewJulie Maher’s post on the judgment handed down by the ECtHR in Eweida and Others v United Kingdom outlines the ...
Religious Rights in the Balance: Eweida and Others v UKEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Sexual OrientationYesterday’s decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Eweida and Others v the UK has been described as ...
Eweida, Chaplin, Ladele and McFarlane v the United Kingdom: A PrimerEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Sexual OrientationOn Tuesday 15 January the European Court of Human Rights will give judgement on the applications of four Christian ...
Unprecedented Step Taken in South Africa to Address Gender Transformation in the JudiciarySouth Africa, Role of the JudiciaryOn the 12th of October 2012, the South African Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) was served with an ...