Still the second sex: Some feminist reflections on the new General Comment of the UN Human Rights Committee on the right to lifeUnited Nations, GenderIn October 2018 the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (HRC) adopted general comment (GC) 36 on the right ...
US Supreme Court Affirms that there is No Right to a Painless DeathUnited States of America, Death PenaltyOn 1st April, a 5-4 majority of the United States Supreme Court reiterated that while the Eighth Amendment of the ...
Beghal v UK: Stop and Search at the Border Violates Article 8 ECHREuropean Convention on Human Rights, Counter-terrorismSchedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 allows police officers at ports or border areas to question individuals for ...
Expectations of the Victims of Radovan KaradžićUnited Nations, Conflict and Human RightsThe Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT) recently delivered the ...
Turkish Local Elections: What Does the Delayed Declaration of Election Results Mean?Turkey, Right to VoteWhile nearly three weeks have passed since local elections were held in Turkey on 31st March 2019, the Turkish ...
Asylum Applications Should be Judged on the Basis of Law not Religious DoctrineUnited Kingdom, Immigration and AsylumIn March 2019, a Home Office letter rejecting an asylum application made the headlines of the biggest media ...
UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children raises serious concerns regarding Ireland’s history of illegal adoption practicesIreland, Children's RightsIreland has an extensive history of systemic human rights abuses of women and children, encompassing multiple ...
Gabriel Resources v. Romania: Local Residents as Third Parties in Investor-State Dispute Settlement?Romania, Business and Human Rights, EnvironmentThe Canadian corporation Gabriel Resources wanted to establish Europe’s largest gold mine in Rosia Montana, ...
Zambia’s police force undermine opposition in SeshekeZambia, Right to VoteRecent reports and video footage of the political unrest in Sesheke’s Parliamentary by-elections have brought to ...
When does a person have an intellectual disability? The insights of the US Supreme CourtUnited States of America, DisabilityA death sentence against a convict with an intellectual disability (ID) would violate the Eighth Amendment’s ...
Machine Decision-making in the criminal justice system: The FATAL4JUSTICE? ProjectCriminal Justice and Fair TrialThe capacity to collect, store and process digital data in real-time on cloud servers, and to subject vast data ...
Chile’s debt to children: State engagement in children´s rights protectionChile, Children's Rights878 deaths of children under the care of the Chilean National Children’s Service are currently under criminal ...