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Freedom of Speech or Enabling a Right to Insult? The Australian Debate over Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975

Australia, Race, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

With a rise in the Neo-Right worldwide, we see the fear of the foreigner and the blaming of refugees and welfare ...

A ‘state-generated’ maid? – care workers in the South Korea

South Korea, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Although jobs of ‘formal’ caregivers have been created by laws and Government intervention, their wages are set to ...

Has India’s employment guarantee programme led to transformative gender equality?

India, Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

In the 2017-18 budget, the Government of India allocated roughly 7.4 billion USD towards the Mahatma Gandhi ...

The European Court of Human Rights and the Emerging Right to Health

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

The ‘right to health’ is, perhaps unsurprisingly, absent from the European Convention on Human Rights. In a number ...

Rights for Victims of Domestic Violence: Offering Security Through Workplace Protection in Australia

Australia, Gender, Labour Rights

How can domestic violence spill over into the workplace? Most Australian women who report experiencing domestic ...

‘You work like a girl’: The fragmentation of work through the lens of gender and class

Labour law scholars long for the days of the "Standard employment relationship" (SER), which presented a ...

Financial Domestic Violence and the 61st Commission on the Status of Women

United Nations, Gender, Socio-Economic Rights

The 61st Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) concluded 24 March 2017 at the UN’s Head Office in New York. ...

Two East Asian Approaches to Care

Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Gender, Labour Rights

East Asia is home to nearly 180 million people over the age of 65 today, almost as many people as the total ...

Reinforcing Rights: Strengthening UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring at a Time of Crisis

United Nations, Constitutions and Human Rights

The upcoming review of the UN’s human rights treaty bodies in 2020 provides an opportunity to increase the impact ...

The Individual and Structural Aspects of Gender Inequality at Work

Gender, Labour Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination

Within the growing debate concerning the future of what has been termed as the “gender revolution,” two distinct ...

Domestic Violence and the Regressive Russian Amendment

Russia, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Gender

On the 8th of February 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law an amendment that relegated domestic ...

Pihl v Sweden: the ECtHR’s Unhelpful Preoccupation with Hate Speech

European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Privacy

On 9 March 2017, the Third Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) declared inadmissible a complaint ...