LGBTQ+ and Women’s Rights under attack: Romania to hold referendum for “the traditional family”Romania, Sexual OrientationThe Romanian Senate and the Constitutional Court gave the green light to a referendum on “the traditional family”. ...
Blocking ride-sharing applications goes against free speech and human progressArgentina, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionLast year, a local court of Buenos Aires ordered the blockage of Uber’s app and website nationwide in Argentina. ...
Confronting Racism, Discrimination, and Segregation against Palestinians: the CERD’s First Inter-State ComplaintIsrael, Palestine, Race, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn April 2018, the State of Palestine filed an interstate complaint against Israel with the Committee on the ...
Standard of Proof in Zimbabwe’s Presidential Petition: A ResponseZimbabwe, Right to Vote, Standard of ReviewOn 5 September 2018, renowned scholar Alex Magaisa published a piece on the standard of proof in Zimbabwe’s ...
Missing Babies in Serbia: Monetary Reparations Are Not EnoughEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Serbia, Children's RightsOn March 26, 2013, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg declared that Serbia must provide a ...
Indian Supreme Court Decriminalizes Same-Sex RelationsIndia, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationIn a landmark judgment delivered today, the Supreme Court of India decriminalized same-sex relations, and affirmed ...
Patchy Implementation of the Law is Failing India’s GirlsIndia, Abortion, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Life, Sexual and Reproductive RightsIndia is suffering from a supposedly ancient yet timely problem. In violation of the law and Constitution, India’s ...
The Long and Winding Road of Caste Legislation in the UKUnited Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe power to make caste discrimination an aspect of race discrimination, originally contained in s.9(5) of the ...
Zimbabwe’s Presidential Petition: The Standard of ProofZimbabwe, Right to Vote, Standard of ReviewThe Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe (the Court) last week upheld the election of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the duly ...
Grenfell: Human Rights and a Ban on Combustible Cladding?United Kingdom, Business and Human Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Housing, Right to Life, Socio-Economic RightsA number of key human rights issue arise following the Grenfell Tower Tragedy in which 72 people died, and many ...
A Human Right to Divorce?European Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Right to PrivacyThe case of Owens v Owens rocked the legal world in late July, when the Supreme Court decided that Tini Owens ...
Discipline and Punish: How Anti-Beggary Laws in India are used to Criminalize Transgender PersonsIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe Delhi High Court in a landmark judgment (Harsh Mander v. Union of India and Karnika Sawney v. Union of India) ...