Kenya’s Supreme Court Balances Islamic Law and Equality in Landmark Inheritance RulingKenya, Children's Rights, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 30 June 2025, the Supreme Court of Kenya delivered a groundbreaking judgment in Fatuma Athman Abud Faraj v Ruth ...
Banking on Silence: Basel Committee’s Climate Framework Abandons Human Rights Protections?United Nations, Business and Human Rights, Climate Change, Environment, Human Dignity, Social Protection, Standard of ReviewThe Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's June 2025 Framework for the Voluntary Disclosure of Climate-Related ...
Defining ‘Woman’ in Law? Contextualising the Indian High Court Judgment That Affirms Trans Women Are Womengender i, India, LGBTQIA+, United Kingdom, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender identity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination“To deny a trans woman the status of a 'woman' for the purpose of legal protection … is to perpetuate ...
Overlapping Sabotage Provisions in Hong Kong’s National Security Laws: Risks and Implications on Prosecution DecisionsHong Kong, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionIn response to the widespread public unrests that engulfed Hong Kong in 2019, the Central Authorities of the PRC ...
Can the International Court of Justice Finally Declare Fossil Fuel Subsidies a Violation of International Law?International Court of Justice, Paris Agreement, United Kingdom, Climate Change, Climate justice, EnvironmentThe ICJAO has the historic opportunity to legally interrogate fossil fuel subsidies. Judge Cleveland’s question ...
Manual Scavenging in India: A Constitutional and Human Rights CrisisIndia, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to LifeManual scavenging in India is not merely a vestige of colonial or pre-modern sanitation, it remains a continuing ...
Intersectionality in Climate Jurisprudence – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Approach to Climate VulnerabilityInter-American Court of Human Rights, Climate Change, Climate justice, Intersectionality, Right to healthy environmentThe Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on Human Rights and the Climate Emergency released on 3 ...
Weaponizing Vagueness: The Chilling Effect of Karnataka’s Fake News Bill on Free Speech and Democratic PluralismIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Information, rule of law, separation of powersIn March 2025, the Government of Karnataka introduced the draft Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, ...
The US TAKE IT DOWN Act: The Fight Against Deepfake-Enabled TFGBV and Human RightsUnited States, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Gender Based Violence, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionOn 19 May 2025, the US President signed a new law named TAKE IT DOWN Act (S.146) (‘the Act’), which protects ...
Litigating for Reproductive Justice in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Antigua and Dominica Illuminate the PathAntigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Abortion, Gender Equality, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Strategic LitigationAcross the Commonwealth Caribbean, the spectre of colonialism continues to impede women’s full and free exercise ...
Teenage Love Caught between Consent and Criminality under POCSOIndia, Bodily autonomy, Children's Rights, Legislative Reform, Sexual and Reproductive RightsIn a country where the age of consent is fixed at 18 years, what happens to a 17-year-old in a consensual ...
Legislation Meets Compassion: Frontline Workers Fighting Child Sexual AbuseIndia, Access to Justice, Children's Rights, Human Dignity, Social Protection, Standard of Review, Substantive EqualityChild sexual abuse (CSA) leaves a profound scar, with physical, psychological, and social impacts. CSA survivors ...