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The Intersection of Human Rights and Finance: A Legal Exploration of the UDHR’s Continuing Impact

The Intersection of Human Rights and Finance: A Legal Exploration of the UDHR’s Continuing Impact

United Kingdom, United Nations, Business and Human Rights, Constitutions and Human Rights, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to work, Socio-Economic Rights, Substantive Equality

This post marks International Human Rights Day, which occurred earlier this week on the 10 December. This is the ...

The UK’s First Country Visit under the Istanbul Convention. Part I: Systemic Challenges and Institutional Inertia

The UK’s First Country Visit under the Istanbul Convention. Part I: Systemic Challenges and Institutional Inertia

United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Gender, Human Dignity, Immigration and Asylum, Intersectionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Life, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, , Substantive Equality

This blog marks the culmination of the 16 Days of Action for the Elimination of Violence against Women, seeking to ...

75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: What Its Legacy Represents Today

75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: What Its Legacy Represents Today

Ukraine, United Nations, Access to Justice, Conflict and Human Rights, Human Dignity, Intersectionality, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, , Socio-Economic Rights, Substantive Equality

This post marks International Human Rights Day on the 10 December, the anniversary of the signing of the Universal ...

Artificial Intelligence at the European Court of Human Rights

Artificial Intelligence at the European Court of Human Rights

European Convention on Human Rights, European Union, Access to Justice, Artificial Intelligence, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Substantive Equality

“As Judges we are all under a certain amount of pressure to perform more efficiently, to deliver justice more ...

L’intelligence artificielle à la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme

L’intelligence artificielle à la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme

European Convention on Human Rights, European Union, Access to Justice, Artificial Intelligence, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Substantive Equality

« En tant que juges, nous sommes tous soumis à une certaine pression pour être plus efficaces et rendre la justice ...

The Decriminalisation of Marital Rape: How India Continues to Refuse Justice to its Married Women

The Decriminalisation of Marital Rape: How India Continues to Refuse Justice to its Married Women

India, United Nations, Abortion, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Gender Based Violence, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Role of the Judiciary, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

India is disappointingly one of the fewest countries in the world today that explicitly decriminalises marital ...

Taken for a Ride, Again: Deliveroo Riders in the Supreme Court

Taken for a Ride, Again: Deliveroo Riders in the Supreme Court

European Convention on Human Rights, International Labour Organization, United Kingdom, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Immigration and Asylum, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to work, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of Review

Last week’s ruling in Independent Workers Union of Great Britain v Central Arbitration Committee came as a great ...

Balancing Workers’ Rights and Organisational Changes: The Gray Areas of Section 9A

Balancing Workers’ Rights and Organisational Changes: The Gray Areas of Section 9A

India, Access to Justice, Business and Human Rights, Labour Rights, Right to work, Role of the Judiciary, Standard of Review

Section 9A of India's Industrial Disputes Act 1947 aims to strike a delicate balance between protecting workers' ...

In Defence of Democracy: The Pakistani Supreme Court’s Decision Against Military Trials of Civilians

In Defence of Democracy: The Pakistani Supreme Court’s Decision Against Military Trials of Civilians

Pakistan, Access to Justice, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Freedom of Assembly, Role of the Judiciary

The arrest of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in May led to a wave of protests by his supporters. The ...

Bringing the Right to Die to the British Isles (Part II): The Cautionary Experience of Australia’s Northern Territory

Bringing the Right to Die to the British Isles (Part II): The Cautionary Experience of Australia’s Northern Territory

Australia, United Kingdom, Right to Life

Part I of this blog discussed the legality of assisted dying in the Isle of Man at present and the proposed ...

Bringing the Right to Die to the British Isles (Part I): The Isle of Man’s Proposed Assisted Dying Regime

Bringing the Right to Die to the British Isles (Part I): The Isle of Man’s Proposed Assisted Dying Regime

Australia, United Kingdom, Right to Life

On 31 October 2023, a bill that would legalise assisted dying for the first time in the British Isles passed its ...

A Potential Avenue for Justice: The Possibility of International Criminal Responsibility for Gender-Based Violence caused by Climate Change

A Potential Avenue for Justice: The Possibility of International Criminal Responsibility for Gender-Based Violence caused by Climate Change

Convention on Discrimination against Women, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Uganda, United Nations, Environment, Gender, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to healthy environment

Climate change is leading to the rapid degradation of land, forcing communities to abandon their homes in search ...

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