Thubakgale: Obscuring the Right to Access to Adequate HousingSouth Africa, Access to Justice, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic RightsThere is a housing crisis in South Africa, which is largely due to the State’s failure to carry out its ...
Why Legislate Intersectional Gender Parity Acts for Parliaments? The Case of GermanyGermany, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe German Constitution provides in Article 3 (2) that “[m]en and women shall have equal rights. The state shall ...
The Supreme Court Refused to Order the Legal Recognition of Elan-Cane’s Non-Gendered IdentityUnited Kingdom, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationWith its judgment in the Elan-Cane case, the UK Supreme Court lost an invaluable opportunity to ease one of the ...
Culture Wars and Constitutional Statutes: The Government’s Proposed Human Rights Act ReformsUnited Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsThis week, in response to the Independent Human Rights Act Review’s report, the Government published its proposals ...
Vikash Kumar: Dignity and Disability Rights at the Indian Supreme CourtIndia, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationImage description: The first page of the Americans with Disabilities Act 1988, as introduced in the Senate of the ...
The Nationality and Borders Bill has Passed the Commons, With the UK Set to Renege on Fundamental Protections for Asylum Seekers and MigrantsUnited Kingdom, Immigration and Asylum, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationLast Wednesday, the Nationality and Borders Bill – fittingly dubbed the “Anti-refugee bill”– passed its third ...
Pushing the Bioethical Envelope: Rethinking the Rights of Part-Human Chimeric EmbryosEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to Health, Right to LifeImage description: Different equipment, including test tubes and petri dishes, at a laboratory. On 15 April ...
Justice behind closed doors? Extrajudicial killings, Closed Material Proceedings, and Investigatory Obligations under the ECHREuropean Convention on Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to LifeThe on-going case R (Saifullah) v Secretary of State for Defence is a judicial review case concerning the Ministry ...
Disability Rights and the Argument of Misuse: The Indian Supreme Court’s JudgmentIndia, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationImage description: A person reading a book in braille. The 2021 judgment of the Indian Supreme Court in Vikash ...
Improving Working Conditions in the Gig Economy: The EU’s Proposed Platform Work DirectiveEuropean Union, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 8 December 2021, the European Commission published its long-awaited draft of a directive aiming to improve ...
Development of Disability Rights in the Indian Supreme CourtIndia, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationImage description: A picture of the Supreme Court of India. Development of Disability Rights in the Indian ...
Ward: A Missed Opportunity for the Supreme Court of Canada to Denounce Bullying of Children with Disabilities and to Promote Substantive EqualityCanada, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionOn October 29, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) rendered a 5-4 judgement that strengthens protection for ...