The Inter-American Human Rights System on Public Security and Police Violence in Brazil: In Defence of a Rights-Based Approach to Security PoliciesAmerican Convention on Human Rights, Brazil, Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, Conflict and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Race, Right against Torture, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThree years after the “Favela Nova Brasília” case, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ('IACtHR') is hearing ...
UK High Court Grants Discretionary Leave to Remain for Victims of TraffickingEuropean Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Immigration and AsylumImage description: Several persons approaching the coastline on a small boat. On 12 October 2021, in KTT, R ...
Multinational Corporations Owe Responsibility Towards the Forced Labour of Uyghurs in ChinaChina, Business and Human Rights, Conflict and Human RightsUS President Joe Biden recently signed into law the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act which will ban goods ...
Pakistan’s Inspirational Transgender Persons’ Law- Some Years LaterPakistan, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe Parliament of Pakistan had passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act in May 2018 and it might ...
The Polish Challenge to the ECtHR’s Authority: Can the CoE Human-Rights System Respond Convincingly to It?European Convention on Human Rights, Poland, Constitutions and Human Rights, Role of the JudiciaryThat the 24.11.21 judgment of the Polish Constitutional Court (CC) represents a serious challenge to the ECtHR’s ...
Vikash Kumar Discourse: A Missed Opportunity in the Realm of Policy FormationIndia, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationImage description: Parliamentarians at a consultation in India. The judgment pronounced by Justice D.Y. ...
Lee v UK: Exhausting Domestic RemediesEuropean Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationToday a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) handed down its decision in Lee v UK, declaring ...
Challenging Regression in Climate Commitments: Doctrine of ‘Non-Retrogression’ to the Rescue?Brazil, Mexico, United Nations, EnvironmentAmidst the wave of new climate commitments or nationally determined contributions (NDCs) from Parties to the Paris ...
To Eat or Not to Eat: Analysing the Constitutionality of the Meat Bans in GujaratIndia, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Food and Water, Right to Life, Right to PrivacyImage description: A person holding an egg against the background of a stack of eggs. Recently, the Municipal ...
Thubakgale: Obscuring the Right to Access to Adequate HousingSouth Africa, Access to Justice, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic RightsThere is a housing crisis in South Africa, which is largely due to the State’s failure to carry out its ...
Why Legislate Intersectional Gender Parity Acts for Parliaments? The Case of GermanyGermany, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe German Constitution provides in Article 3 (2) that “[m]en and women shall have equal rights. The state shall ...
The Supreme Court Refused to Order the Legal Recognition of Elan-Cane’s Non-Gendered IdentityUnited Kingdom, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationWith its judgment in the Elan-Cane case, the UK Supreme Court lost an invaluable opportunity to ease one of the ...