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 ...
Liberalising Access to Abortion and Sex Education to Decrease Teenage Pregnancy in KazakhstanKazakhstan, Abortion, Children's Rights, Sexual and Reproductive RightsTeenage pregnancy rates in Kazakhstan are high, with 3443 births in 2017, much higher than during the Soviet ...
Legal Gaps in Securing Customary Land Rights in ZambiaZambia, Socio-Economic RightsThe Asa Lato & 30 others case provides an opportunity for Zambia’s High Court to review legal gaps related to ...
The Supreme Court of the United States denies absolute immunity to the International Finance Corporation in human rights caseUnited States of America, Business and Human RightsLast February 27th, a 7-1 majority of the United States Supreme Court held in Jam et al. v. International Finance ...
A Year of Gaza’s Marches of Return: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Targeting Protected GroupsIsrael, Palestine, Conflict and Human RightsThe independent international commission of inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ...