Women and the Labour Market: Navigating Algorithm Decision MakingColombia, European Union, Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, Gender Equality, Labour RightsAI is reshaping the labour market, influencing operations across organisations, as Eurostat shows. The ILO has ...
Demolition Before Verification: Nepal’s Eviction Drive and the Right to HousingInternational Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Nepal, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Right to HousingWithin weeks of assuming office, Nepal’s new Prime Minister Balendra Shah directed security forces to clear ...
When Protection Becomes Punishment: India’s POCSO Act, Adolescent Autonomy, and the Limits of the Bright LineIndia, Children's Rights, Human Dignity, Role of the Judiciary, Social Protection, Standard of ReviewOn 16 April 2026, the Delhi High Court in Harmeet Singh v. State (GNCT of Delhi) quashed a criminal case against a ...
The Right to Strike in the International Court of JusticeInternational Court of Justice, CollectiveAction, CollectiveBargaining, InternationalLabourLaw, RightToStrike, TradeUnions, WorkersRightsOn 21st May 2026 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion of historic significance. The ...
Death Penalty in India and The Perils of Sentencing ExceptionalismIndia, Death Penalty, India, Supreme Court of IndiaDeath penalty exceptionalism, the idea that the irreversible nature of death penalty warrants the highest degree ...
Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia: A profound shift in how Canadian tort law recognises and redresses intimate partner violence – but what will the material impacts be for survivors?Canada, coercive control, Family law, Gender justice, intimate partner violence, tort lawIn Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia 2026 SCC 16, the Supreme Court of Canada recognised (6-3) a new tort of intimate partner ...
Conversion, Surveillance, and the Erosion of Fundamental Rights in MaharashtraIndia, Supreme Court of India, Freedom of Religion, Right to PrivacyOn 17 March 2026, the State Assembly of Maharashtra, India, passed the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill (FRB). ...
A Renewed Push for Stringent Funding Restrictions on NGOs: India’s Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026India, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Human Dignity, Right to Freedom of Association, Social Protection, Standard of ReviewThe Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill 2026, introduced in India’s Lok Sabha (House of the People), ...
Law, Hegemony, and the Erosion of the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Part IIInternational Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, United Nations, Conflict and Human Rights, Human Dignity, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Responsibility to ProtectThe first part of this discussion examined the growing tendency of powerful states not merely to violate ...
Law, Hegemony, and the Erosion of the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Part IInternational Law, United Nations, Conflict and Human Rights, Human Dignity, International Humanitarian Law, Responsibility to ProtectOne of international law’s oldest and most hard-won achievements risks being dismantled in plain sight, and the ...
The Problem with Defining Voyeurism Too NarrowlyIndia, Gender Equality, Right to Privacy, Sexual Harassment, Sexual ViolenceIndia stands on an uncharted terrain of privacy jurisprudence, where, on one hand, a normative framework of ...
The Persistence of Witch Hunting in India: A Crisis of Legal Enforcement and State ResponsibilityConstitutions and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender, Human Dignity, India, Right to LifeIn July 2025, a mob in Bihar’s Purnea district hacked to death and burned five members of a Scheduled Tribe ...