UK’s ‘no notice’ immigration policy unlawfully interfered with the right to access to justice, holds Court of AppealUnited Kingdom, Access to Justice, Immigration and AsylumUntil March 2019, the UK operated an immigration policy – set out in Chapter 60 of the General Instructions to ...
The UK’s Overseas Operations Bill: licence to kill?United Kingdom, Conflict and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right against TortureThe UK Government is seeking to pass a new legislation that would impede prosecutions against British troops for ...
A historical precedent: IACtHR recognizes breach of the right to equality and non-discrimination in the enjoyment of a socioeconomic right on intersectional grounds of gender, poverty and race in Fireworks Factory caseBrazil, Children's Rights, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn July 2019, I wrote a blog post introducing the main arguments presented to the Inter-American Court of Human ...
The Early Years: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Breaks the Cage [Blog Series on US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]United States of America, Gender, Judges' Legacy, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn 1972, the year I was born, a young law professor became the founding director of the ACLU Women’s Rights ...
Introduction: The “Notorious R.B.G.” [Blog Series: The Legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]United States of America, Gender, Judges' Legacy, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn September 18, 2020, the first evening of the Jewish New Year holiday, Rosh Hashanah, U.S. Supreme Court Justice ...
Jammu and Kashmir Media Policy 2020: A Veil Covering FreedomsIndia, Environment, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionThrough an order dated 15th May 2020, the Jammu and Kashmir Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) ...
On the grounds of sex’: SCOTUS brings sexual orientation within the ambit of Title VIIUnited States of America, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual OrientationOn June 15 2020, the US Supreme Court decided in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights ...
Kenyan Lessons on the right to education as a human right amidst the Covid-19 PandemicKenya, Children's Rights, COVID-19, Right to EducationIn BPA v Directors, Brookhouse Schools, a group of parents ofminors at Brookhouse Schools, a private school, ...
A Review of the Credibility Assessment in Hong Kong’s Torture Claim RegimeHong Kong, Immigration and Asylum, Right against TortureSince 2014, Hong Kong has conducted its asylum process through the Unified Screening Mechanism. The process ...
Foreign National Rough Sleepers Penalised Under the UK’s Revised Immigration RulesUnited Kingdom, Immigration and Asylum, Right against Torture, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to HousingOn 22 October 2020, the UK Government’s Home Office Department published a Statement of Changes (‘SoC’) to update ...
Reproductive Rights and Democracy in PolandPoland, Abortion, Right to Life, Sexual and Reproductive RightsOn 22 October 2020, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal held it was unconstitutional for a women to access abortion ...
Sealing the Records of Irish Institutional AbuseIreland, Children's Rights, Gender, Right to PrivacyThe Irish Oireachtas (parliament) has passed controversial legislation relating to the Mother and Baby Homes ...