Unearthing Justice: The Human Rights and Environmental Toll of Mining in GhanaGhana, Children's Rights, Environment, Human Dignity, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Right to healthy environment, Social Protection, Socio-Economic Rights, Substantive EqualityGhana, Africa's biggest gold-producing country and the world's sixth biggest, relies heavily on mining for its ...
Judicial Activism in Protecting the Right to Equality in Bangladesh: Reflections on High Court Division’s verdict on Redefining Parental Identity in Student Information FormsBangladesh, Access to Justice, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Social Protection, Standard of Review, Substantive EqualityThe case of BLAST and others vs. Bangladesh and others (Writ Petition No. 5343 0f 2009) challenged the mandatory ...
Is Lack of Climate Change Mitigation measures a Human Right Violation?Australia, Torres Strait Islands, Climate Change, Climate justice, Cultural rights, Indigenous Rights, Right to Life, Right to Participation, Right to PrivacyA Disappearing Homeland The Torres Strait Islands are slowly disappearing owing to rising sea levels and costal ...
Supreme Court of India Moves from Tolerance to Acceptance for Persons with DisabilitiesIndia, affirmative action, Disability Rights, Intersectionality, Reservations, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Substantive EqualityConstitutionally, there is enough consensus around the fact that law must acknowledge the unequal realities of its ...
The Curious Case of Custodial Torture in IndiaIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Custodial Violence, prohibition of torture, torture conventionIn February 2025, the High Court of Justice in London, King’s Bench Division, rejected the extradition of Sanjay ...
Finding the Essence of Non-Retrogression: A Path to Stronger Social Rights AccountabilityUnited Nations, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Housing, Social Protection, Socio-Economic Rights, Standard of Review, Substantive EqualityTime and again, States have been warned by courts, UN bodies, and NGOs against taking retrogressive steps in ...
Connecting or disconnecting White Army from the SPLM/A-IO and the relevance of R-ARCSS in maintaining peace in South SudanSouth Sudan, Sudan, Conflict and Human Rights, Transitional JusticeIn early February 2025, the White Army (constituted mainly by civilians from Nasir and Ulang) clashed with the ...
Letters from the judge: Strengthening child-focused justice in the family court in England and WalesUnited Kingdom, Children's RightsChildren involved in family court proceedings in England and Wales are rarely addressed directly by the judges who ...
Implementing KlimaSeniorinnen: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyEuropean Court of Human Rights, Switzerland, Climate justice, human rights implementation, positive obligations, Right to healthy environment, state obligationsOn 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights issued a climate judgment with global resonance. This ...
Trump’s Tax Policy Privileges Sophisticated and Wealth Individuals and Organizations at the Expense of the Working PoorUnited States of America, cooperation tax, Redistribution, Revenue, Trump administrationNo one enjoys paying taxes, but some level of taxation is inevitable in modern society. The question is not ...
Investigating Historic Human Rights Violations: A Case for Systemic Processes for Victims of Historic Police Misconduct in IrelandIreland, Access to Justice, European Convention on Human Rights, prohibition of torture, Right to Life, Transitional JusticeIn January 2024, the Irish government brought an inter-state case against the British government at the European ...
Breaking Encryption, Breaking Rights? France’s Legislative Stand and What India Must LearnFrance, India, Data Protection, Right to Privacy, Technology and human rightsOn 20 March 2025, the French National Assembly voted down Article 8 of the proposed Drug Trafficking Bill ...