Landmark Transgender Ruling in Zimbabwe: An Opening for Future LGBTQIA Activism and Litigation? Zimbabwe, GenderOn the 14th of November 2019, Judge Bere of the High Court of Zimbabwe ruled in favour of Ricky (Rikki) Nathanson, ...
Iranian Nationalism Does Not Accommodate Ethnic MinoritiesIran, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationAs a matter of human rights, everybody has a right to education in their mother language as the basis for ...
South African court rejects petition to award constitutional damages and extend emotional shock and grief claims in pit-latrine drowning caseSouth Africa, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human RightsIn 2014, 5-year old Michael Komape tragically drowned in a sludge of human excrement when the pit-latrine at his ...
Younger women, older men: The perpetuation of gender discrimination through minimum legal age for marriageIndia, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn India, the minimum legal age for marriage is different for men and women. Section 4(c), Special Marriage Act, ...
High Court Victory upholding the Right to Education for Undocumented Learners in South AfricaSouth Africa, Children's Rights, Right to EducationOn Thursday 12 December, the Makhanda High Court affirmed that all learners in South Africa have the ...
Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Part II/II)Ireland, United Kingdom, Immigration and AsylumIn November, two important judgments were handed down concerning the legal regime governing immigration detention ...
South African Constitutional Court Affirms Doctrine of Common Purpose in Rape CasesSouth Africa, GenderIn criminal law, the doctrine of common purpose establishes that where two or more people agree to a commit a ...
Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Part I/II)Ireland, United Kingdom, Immigration and AsylumIn November, two important judgments were handed down concerning the legal regime governing immigration detention ...
Eswatini Court Upholds a Widow’s Rights to Customary Land Use – A Beacon of Hope?Eswatini, GenderOn October 9th, Ethel Dlamini (nee Gule), an elderly Swazi woman and a widow, approached the Courts to seek an ...
Tanzania’s Withdrawal of Access to the African Court: Further Retrogression in Human Rights Protection in East AfricaTanzania, Access to JusticeThe Tanzanian government has withdrawn its special declaration to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ...
Gentrifying intersectionality in contemporary BrazilBrazil, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 17 October 2019, for the first time in the history of Brazil’s Supreme Court, Silvia Souza, a black woman, ...
JCHR Report: The Right to Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital RevolutionUnited Kingdom, Right to PrivacyOn 3 November 2019, the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published a report on The Right to Privacy (Article ...