Intersectional Barriers Hindering the Effectiveness of the UK’s Draft Domestic Abuse Bill, 2019United Kingdom, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe UK’s Draft Domestic Abuse Bill, 2019 has been described as a ‘landmark’ piece of legislation. This recognition ...
Canada’s Notwithstanding Clause: An Overlooked Threat to Minority RightsCanada, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe notwithstanding clause, also referred to as section 33 of Canada’s Constitution, has been described as a ...
A Global Mandate to End Violence and Harassment in the World of Work: ILO Convention No. 190United Nations, Gender“For me, as for most women workers I know, this Convention and this Recommendation are personal… This Convention, ...
The sex discrimination argument for LGBTQ rights: Contrasting the US with IndiaIndia, United States of America, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn October 2019, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on a question of law that might shape the ...
Intersectionality at 30Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 17th October, a gloomy, blustery evening in Bloomsbury was lit up by an illuminating event to celebrate 30 ...
Using Human Rights Law to Address the Sanitation Crisis in MakhandaSouth Africa, Right to HealthAs the current Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellow, I’ll be blogging about my experiences ...
Blood, Taxes, and EqualityColombia, Sexual and Reproductive RightsThe Colombian Constitutional Court has recently delivered two groundbreaking decisions. One struck down taxes on ...
Is There a Protection Vacuum in Contested Territories?European Convention on Human Rights, Conflict and Human RightsThe issue of ‘contested territories’ has become one of the main bones of contention with regard to how the human ...
The 2019 Sudanese Coup and Omar Al-Bashir: A blow to the ICCRome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Conflict and Human RightsIn 2003 and 2008, the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) requested the U.N. Secretary-General to investigate reports of ...
An ever-present past: The Troubles and Their Human Rights DimensionEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right against TortureFor the past few months, continental Europe has become increasingly aware of the intricacies surrounding Northern ...
Horizontality and the Constitutional Right to Equality– Recent Developments in the Jurisprudence of the German Federal Constitutional CourtGermany, Business and Human RightsTwo recent decisions by the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht - BVerfG) shed new light ...
The Grenfell Tower Fire as a Breach of the Right to LifeUnited Kingdom, Right to LifeConsidered one of the worst man-made disasters in post-World War II Britain, the Grenfell Tower fire of June 14th, ...