Under India’s New Intermediary Rules, Fundamental Rights Take BackstageIndia, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to PrivacyThe Indian Government’s Information Technology Ministry had recently invited comments on proposed amendments to ...
Should Canadian Citizens Abroad have an Unfettered Right to Vote?Canada, Right to VoteCanadian citizens who have resided abroad for five years or more did not have the right to vote in a federal ...
Human Rights in ScotlandUnited Kingdom, BrexitOn 10th December 2018 the First Minister’s Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership set out its vision for the ...
Indian Supreme Court on Dance Bar Regulations: Victory for Bar Dancers?India, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationA two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India (‘SC’) recently relaxed the stringent conditions imposed by the ...
Successful Judicial Review of Benefits Payment in the UKUnited Kingdom, Social ProtectionR (Johnson and others) and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2019] EWHC 23 (Admin) is an English High ...
“Social will” as important as political will for implementing human rightsGenderWhat has been largely overlooked in the human rights theory and practice is what I would call the lack of “social ...
Madison v. Alabama: Chief Justice Roberts “Takes Back Control” of his CourtUnited States of America, Death PenaltyLast week, the US Supreme Court spared the life of Vernon Madison, at least temporarily, by remanding his case ...
Abidjan’s Roadmap for Free and Quality Public EducationRight to EducationI had to take three flights and it took me almost 24 hours to get to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from Medellin, my ...
Lessons from Sir Henry Brooke: Making Rights Real (II)United Kingdom, Right to Freedom of ReligionIn my last post, I argued that the judgment in Gareth Lee v Ashers Bakery is the consequence of the failure to ...
Lessons from Sir Henry Brooke: Making Rights Real (I)United Kingdom, Right to Freedom of ReligionWhat if? What if the UK House of Lords (as the UK Supreme Court then was) had left the judgment of Lord Justice ...
Re: Inhuman conditions in 1382 Prisons – Development in Indian Prisoner’s RightsIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair TrialIn June 2013, Justice R C Lahoti, a retired Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court, wrote to the then Chief ...
Antwerp Court muddies the waters: Belgian Burkini Ban JustifiedBelgium, Gender, Right to Freedom of ReligionOn 18 December 2018, the Antwerp court of first instance held that the burkini ban in the Antwerp Police ...