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Challenging Regression in Climate Commitments: Doctrine of ‘Non-Retrogression’ to the Rescue?

Challenging Regression in Climate Commitments: Doctrine of ‘Non-Retrogression’ to the Rescue?

Brazil, Mexico, United Nations, Environment

Amidst 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 Gujarat

To Eat or Not to Eat: Analysing the Constitutionality of the Meat Bans in Gujarat

India, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Food and Water, Right to Life, Right to Privacy

Image 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 Housing

Thubakgale: Obscuring the Right to Access to Adequate Housing

South Africa, Access to Justice, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic Rights

There 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 Germany

Why Legislate Intersectional Gender Parity Acts for Parliaments? The Case of Germany

Germany, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

The 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 Identity

The Supreme Court Refused to Order the Legal Recognition of Elan-Cane’s Non-Gendered Identity

United Kingdom, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

With its judgment in the Elan-Cane case, the UK Supreme Court lost an invaluable opportunity to ease one of the ...

Culture Wars and Constitutional Statutes: The Government’s Proposed Human Rights Act Reforms

Culture Wars and Constitutional Statutes: The Government’s Proposed Human Rights Act Reforms

United Kingdom, Constitutions and Human Rights

This week, in response to the Independent Human Rights Act Review’s report, the Government published its proposals ...

Vikash Kumar: Dignity and Disability Rights at the Indian Supreme Court

Vikash Kumar: Dignity and Disability Rights at the Indian Supreme Court

India, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Image description: The first page of the Americans with Disabilities Act 1988, as introduced in the Senate of the ...

The Nationality and Borders Bill has Passed the Commons, With the UK Set to Renege on Fundamental Protections for Asylum Seekers and Migrants

The Nationality and Borders Bill has Passed the Commons, With the UK Set to Renege on Fundamental Protections for Asylum Seekers and Migrants

United Kingdom, Immigration and Asylum, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Last Wednesday, the Nationality and Borders Bill – fittingly dubbed the “Anti-refugee bill”– passed its third ...

Pushing the Bioethical Envelope: Rethinking the Rights of Part-Human Chimeric Embryos

Pushing the Bioethical Envelope: Rethinking the Rights of Part-Human Chimeric Embryos

European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Health, Right to Life

Image description: Different equipment, including test tubes and petri dishes, at a laboratory. On 15 April ...

Justice behind closed doors? Extrajudicial killings, Closed Material Proceedings, and Investigatory Obligations under the ECHR

Justice behind closed doors? Extrajudicial killings, Closed Material Proceedings, and Investigatory Obligations under the ECHR

European Convention on Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Life

The on-going case R (Saifullah) v Secretary of State for Defence is a judicial review case concerning the Ministry ...

Disability Rights and the Argument of Misuse: The Indian Supreme Court’s Judgment

Disability Rights and the Argument of Misuse: The Indian Supreme Court’s Judgment

India, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Image description: A person reading a book in braille. The 2021 judgment of the Indian Supreme Court in Vikash ...

Improving Working Conditions in the Gig Economy: The EU’s Proposed Platform Work Directive

Improving Working Conditions in the Gig Economy: The EU’s Proposed Platform Work Directive

European Union, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

On 8 December 2021, the European Commission published its long-awaited draft of a directive aiming to improve ...

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