The 2019 Sudanese Coup and Omar Al-Bashir: A blow to the ICCRome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Conflict and Human RightsIn 2003 and 2008, the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) requested the U.N. Secretary-General to investigate reports of ...
An ever-present past: The Troubles and Their Human Rights DimensionEuropean Convention on Human Rights, Right against TortureFor the past few months, continental Europe has become increasingly aware of the intricacies surrounding Northern ...
Horizontality and the Constitutional Right to Equality– Recent Developments in the Jurisprudence of the German Federal Constitutional CourtGermany, Business and Human RightsTwo recent decisions by the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht - BVerfG) shed new light ...
The Grenfell Tower Fire as a Breach of the Right to LifeUnited Kingdom, Right to LifeConsidered one of the worst man-made disasters in post-World War II Britain, the Grenfell Tower fire of June 14th, ...
Domestic Workers in South Africa Lead the Way in Advancing Social Protection for Precarious WorkersSouth Africa, Gender, Labour Rights, Social ProtectionIn a recent South African High Court judgement, the court held the failure to cover domestic workers under ...
Brand “spanking” new law – South African Constitutional Court Outlaws Corporal Punishment of ChildrenSouth Africa, Children's RightsOn the 18th of September 2019, Chief Justice Mogoeng handed down a unanimous judgment declaring the common law ...
New UK Ministry of Defence proposals risk impunityUnited Kingdom, Conflict and Human RightsIn July 2019, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) made a series of proposals on Legal Protections for Armed Forces ...
Protecting the right to privacy against doxxing: injunction as the only effective meansHong Kong, Right to PrivacyDoxxing refers to the act of researching one’s private information (e.g. home address) and then exposing it ...
From contract to role: using human rights to widen the personal scope of employment protectionsUnited Kingdom, Labour RightsThe UK Supreme Court’s judgment in Gilham demonstrates how human rights can be used to widen the class of ...
The Filipino Anti-False Content Bill: Fake News and Free ExpressionPhilippines, Right to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionOn 1 July 2019, the ‘Anti-False Content Bill’ was introduced in the Senate of the Philippines, seeking to ‘protect ...
Environmental Human Rights Litigation in IrelandIreland, EnvironmentRecently, the Irish High Court handed down judgment in the case of Friends of the Irish Environment v The ...
Protecting the Right to a Basic Education for Undocumented Learners: An Update from the Legal Resources CentreSouth Africa, Right to Education(As the current Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellow, I’ll be blogging about my experiences ...