Law and Disability: Why Getting Disability Law on the University’s Curriculum Matters to Disability RightsUnited Nations, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationToday marks an important moment for the foregrounding of the rights of people with disabilities at Oxford. It is ...
Reflections On The Rhodes University Travelling FellowshipSouth Africa, United Kingdom, Constitutions and Human RightsAs one of two holders of the inaugural Oxford Human Rights Hub Travelling Research Fellowship, I have had the ...
Through Two Progressive Rulings, Indian Supreme Court Bolsters Rights of the DisabledIndia, Disability, Right to Education, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn India, home to one of the world's largest populations of disabled people, the Government has taken a number of ...
Law and Disability: How The UK Is Still Reinforcing The Medical View Of DisabilityUnited Kingdom, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationIn 2009, when the UK ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), it seemed to ...
Law and Disability: An Introduction to the Social Model of DisabilityUnited Nations, Disability, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination“To pay attention to the words we use is not to be “politically correct” but to struggle for a language which ...
Is Consent of the Husband Needed for an Abortion in India?India, Abortion, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual and Reproductive RightsThe Indian Supreme Court on 27th October, 2017 in the case of Anil Kumar Malhotra v. Ajay Pasricha, dismissed a ...
Women’s Suffrage in ChileChile, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to VoteBy the time that the Chilean poet and educator, Gabriela Mistral, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in ...
Criminal Justice and the Death Penalty in India: An Opinion Study with 60 Former Supreme Court JudgesIndia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Death Penalty, Right against Torture, Right to LifeThe Centre on the Death Penalty at National Law University, Delhi conducted an opinion study with 60 former Indian ...
Addressing Gender Violence: The Urgent Need for Introspection by the ICCDemocratic Republic of Congo, Rome Statute, Conflict and Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationThe International Criminal Court (ICC) will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2018. While this torchbearer of ...
Establishing a breach of Article 3 in medical cases: The ‘applicability’ of Strasbourg jurisprudence (update)European Convention on Human Rights, United Kingdom, Immigration and Asylum, Right to Health, Right to LifeFollowing my earlier blog post on the case of EA, the CA last week handed down its judgment in AM (Zimbabwe) v ...
Women’s Suffrage in SwitzerlandSwitzerland, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to VoteIn 2017, a Swiss film about the introduction of women’s suffrage on the Swiss federal level attracted much ...
Waitangi Day: Rights, Sovereignty and the Politics of a National DayNew Zealand, Constitutions and Human Rights, EnvironmentNew Zealand celebrated its national day this week. Unlike Canada Day which marks the anniversary of the Canadian ...