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) ...
Makangwane: A Fight for Effective Relief to Historic InjusticeSouth Africa, Children's Rights, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Socio-Economic RightsLearners at Makangwane Secondary School in Limpopo, South Africa have for too long been deprived of their ...
Rude Awakening for over 20,000 Residents of Kibera in KenyaKenya, Right to Housing, Socio-Economic RightsOn Monday, 23 July 2018, over 20,000 residents of Kibera slum in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi woke up to the rude ...
The Sabarimala Temple Ban: An ‘Untouchable’ RuleIndia, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Sexual and Reproductive RightsOn 1st August, 2018, the Supreme Court of India concluded its hearing on a crucial matter regarding the Sabrimala ...
Section 377: The Essence of FreedomIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual OrientationA country that routinely bans movies that attempt to speak of homosexuality is witnessing a historic discussion on ...
Coup, Constitution and the Court: Zimbabwean Constitutional Court whitewashes flawed rigged electionsZimbabwe, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Vote, Role of the JudiciaryToday, the Constitutional Court dismissed a legal challenge to Zimbabwe’s presidential elections. In my previous ...
Promoting ‘Gender Ideology’: Constitutional Court of Bulgaria Declares Istanbul Convention UnconstitutionalBulgaria, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn July 27 Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled that the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating ...