Horizontal Reservation for India’s Transgender Community: Can the Supreme Court Deliver?India, Gender identity, Intersectionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, Social ProtectionIndia’s queer community is struggling to realise its civil rights on multiple fronts. The Indian Supreme Court has ...
Moraru v Romania: ECtHR Protects Against Size-based DiscriminationEuropean Convention on Human Rights, European Union, Romania, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to work, Role of the JudiciaryIn November 2022, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that height and weight requirements for participation ...
Make-Believe: Indictment of Two Activists Reveals the Truth About Freedom of Expression in IndonesiaIndonesia, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionOn 3 April 2023, the trial of two Indonesian activists, accused of defamation by the Minister of Maritime and ...
What’s next in Climate Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights? Duarte Agostinho and Others v Portugal and 32 other StatesAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Argentina, European Convention on Human Rights, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Children's Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Environment, Right to Food and Water, Right to healthy environmentOn 29 March 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) heard its first two climate cases (Verein Klima ...
Gender-based Violence, LGBTQIA+ Rights, and Christian Values in ZambiaAfrican Charter on Human and People's Rights, Zambia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender, Gender identity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Assembly, Right to Freedom of Association, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Sexual OrientationSince 2019 the Sistah Sistah Foundation (SSF) has marched in protest of sexual and gender-based violence in ...
Ireland’s Abortion Law ReformIreland, Abortion, GenderThe report of the Independent Review of Ireland’s abortion legislation was published this week. Abortion ...
L’ambitieuse loi française sur les entreprises et les droits de l’homme sera mise à l’épreuve : l’affaire Yemen LNGEuropean Union, France, Business and Human RightsLe 22 février 2023, groupe des droits MENA a intenté une action en justice devant un tribunal parisien contre ...
France’s Ambitious Business and Human Rights Law to be Tested: the Yemen LNG caseEuropean Union, France, Business and Human RightsOn February 22, 2023, MENA Rights Group filed a lawsuit in a Paris court against TotalEnergies, one of France’s ...
Violation of Administrative and Fundamental Rights by banning BBC Documentary in IndiaIndia, Access to Justice, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionOn 21 January 2023, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting directed YouTube and Twitter to censor BBC’s ...
Depathologising Gender Identity at the United Nations: A Call to South AfricaAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Greece, India, Ireland, Malta, South Africa, Uruguay, Access to Justice, Gender identity, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Sexual OrientationOn 29 March 2023, a cross-regional group of countries led by Argentina, called for United Nations Member States to ...
The Enshrinement of Gender Discrimination in the Malaysian Constitution? – Part IIMalaysia, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual and Reproductive RightsThe Court of Appeal of Malaysia ruled that Malaysian mothers did not have the right to pass their citizenship to ...
The Enshrinement of Gender Discrimination in the Malaysian Constitution? – Part IMalaysia, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual and Reproductive RightsOverturning a High Court decision granting Malaysian mothers the right to pass their citizenship to their overseas ...