Love under Watch: Gujarat’s Marriage Amendment and the Limits of Personal FreedomIndia, Constitutions and Human Rights, Gender, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Privacy, Social Protection, Substantive EqualityThe recent proposed amendment to Gujarat’s Registration of Marriages Act, 2006, is a troubling expansion of state ...
Access Denied: Assessing Thailand’s Legal Obligations to Displaced Persons from Prey Chan and Chouk Chey (Ban Nong Ya Kaeo) Under International Humanitarian LawCambodia, Thailand, Conflict and Human Rights, Forced displacement, Human Dignity, Immigration and Asylum, Right to Life, Social ProtectionThere are reports of forced displacements at the disputed Thai-Cambodian border areas. The villages of Prey Chan ...
The Torturous Failure of CCTV Surveillance in Indian Custodial SpacesIndia, Supreme Court of India, Custodial Violence, prohibition of torture, Right against Torture, torture conventionThe persistence of custodial violence within the Indian criminal justice system is constituting the grave rupture ...
Amending Article 319 of Senegal’s 1965 Penal Code Violates the Human Right to HealthAfrican Charter on Human and People's Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Senegal, Access to Justice, Gender identity, Human Dignity, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Health, Right to Life, Sexual Orientation, Social Protection, Socio-Economic Rights, Standard of Review, Substantive EqualityOn 11th March 2026, Senegal passed a bill doubling the punishment enshrined in the queerphobic provision Article ...
Amnesty and conventionality control: the case of the events of January 8, 2023, in BrazilBrazil, Criminal Justice and Fair Trial, Enforcement of Human Rights, Positive DutiesOn January 8, 2023, radical groups invaded and ransacked the main seats of power of the Federative Republic of ...
Register First, Nikah later: Northampton Imam and the Limits of Child Marriage ProtectionUnited Kingdom, child marriage, Children's Rights, Legislative Reform“You ought to have known the law had changed.” On 19 January 2026, those words concluded the “legal first” ...
Judging the Judge: India’s Curriculum Ban and Democratic AccountabilityEuropean Convention on Human Rights, India, Access to Justice, Constitutions and Human Rights, Right to Education, Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, Role of the Judiciary, Social Protection, Standard of ReviewOn February 26, 2026, India's Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance of a grade 8 NCERT textbook chapter titled ...
Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Organised Crime: The Inter-American Commission’s ResolutionInter-American Convention on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Criminal Justice, Organised CrimeIn March 2026, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) presented Resolution 1/26 providing states in ...
H.H. v. Finland: Irreconcilable Differences Between the European Convention on Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Disability, Disability Rights, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Liberty, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesThe European Court of Human Rights (Court) reached its final decision in the case of H.H. v. Finland on 9 December ...
Algeria’s Law on French Colonisation: A possible pathway to recognise Colonisation as a Crime against Humanity?Algeria, Colonisation, Crimes Against Humanity, Human DignityOn 24 December 2025, the Algerian parliament voted unanimously to adopt a law recognising French colonisation as a ...
Nouvelle loi algérienne sur la colonisation française : un pas de plus vers la reconnaissance de la colonisation comme crime contre l’humanité ?Algeria, Colonisation, Crimes Against Humanity, Human DignityCe 24 décembre 2025, le Parlement algérien a voté à l’unanimité une loi visant à reconnaître la colonisation ...
The Right to Die with Dignity: Indian Supreme Court in Harish Rana v. Union of Indiaeuthanesia, Human Dignity, Right to Die, Right to Life, Role of the Judiciary, Supreme Court of IndiaOn March 11, 2026, the Supreme Court of India, in Harish Rana v. Union of India, allowed the withdrawal of ...