The Human Right to Belong: Indigenous rights and sovereignty in AustraliaAustralia, Immigration and AsylumIn 2019, the Minister of Immigration tried to deport two Aboriginal men from Australia. One was born in Papua New ...
High Court of Australia delivers landmark ruling that Indigenous Australians cannot be deportedAustralia, Immigration and AsylumOn 11 February 2020, the High Court of Australia (HCA) delivered a landmark judgment in which it ruled that ...
Vote, But You Cannot Verify: The Namibian Supreme Court’s Presidential Election DecisionNamibia, Right to VoteOn 5 February 2020, the judgement of Panduleni Itula, concerning the constitutionality of using electronic voting ...
Dilution of the Presumption of Innocence Principle in IndiaIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialIn two cases decided in 2019, the Bombay and Calcutta High Courts adopted diverging positions regarding the ...
Supreme Court of Sri Lanka Recognises Custodial Death as a Violation of the Right to LifeSri Lanka, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to LifeIn the landmark judgement of Rathnayake Tharanga Lakmali v Niroshan Abeykoon, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka held ...
Trumping Human Rights in the United States? The Commission on Unalienable RightsUnited States of America, Constitutions and Human RightsIt is a common and very productive exercise, within contemporary philosophical or anthropological inquires, to ...
The Gambia v Myanmar: ICJ upholds the rights of RohingyasUnited Nations, Conflict and Human Rights, GenderOn January 23, the International Court of Justice announced the imposition of provisional measures against ...
The High Court of Malawi Nullifies May 2019 Presidential Election in Landmark JudgmentMalawi, Right to VoteIn a landmark judgment, Saulos Klaus Chilima & Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera v Arthur Peter Mutharika & ...
A novel approach to Get refusal: the use of the offence of coercive control to obtain a religious divorceUnited Kingdom, Gender, Right to Freedom of ReligionFor Jewish women, obtaining a religious divorce (Get) can be life-changing. Women denied a Get are considered ...
Parliamentarians and Freedom of Religion or BeliefRight to Freedom of ReligionParliamentary networks for human rights are not unheard of. Several networks exist which draw attention to the ...
The Urgenda case: human rights obligations to reduce carbon emissionsNetherlands, EnvironmentThe Netherlands’ supreme court has ruled that the state has ‘direct legal obligations’ to reduce carbon emissions ...
Teitiota v New Zealand: A Step Forward in the Protection of Climate Refugees under International Human Rights Law?New Zealand, Environment, Immigration and Asylum, Right to LifeOn 7 January 2020, the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) issued a landmark ruling in which it recognised, for the ...