The China Cables – Dehumanisation of Uyghurs and the Need for International CensureChina, Conflict and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe Uyghurs are a Turkic-minority ethnic group residing in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of the ...
Systematic Violations of Criminal Procedural Rights in ArgentinaArgentina, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialIn three cases on pre-trial detention decided in late 2019, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found that ...
A duty to implement affirmative action/reservations for India and South Africa?India, South Africa, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationA recent Indian Supreme Court judgement, Mukesh Kumar & Another v State of Uttarakhand & Others, held that ...
Universal Credit Implementation Scheme Discriminated Against Severely Disabled People, Court of Appeal ConfirmsUnited Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn R (TP, AR & SXC) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2020] EWCA Civ 37, the Court of Appeal ...
Protection Against Human Trafficking in Hong Kong: A DisappointmentHong Kong, Conflict and Human RightsIn the recent Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal decision, ZN v Secretary for Justice & Others, the Court held ...
Facial Recognition Technology: The High Court’s flawed approach to information privacyEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right to PrivacyIn September 2019, the English High Court ruled the use of automated facial recognition technology (AFR) by South ...
A Breakthrough for Language Rights in Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationFollowing the collapse of the power-sharing coalition led by the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin, Northern ...
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 ...