Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Part II/II)Ireland, United Kingdom, Immigration and AsylumIn November, two important judgments were handed down concerning the legal regime governing immigration detention ...
South African Constitutional Court Affirms Doctrine of Common Purpose in Rape CasesSouth Africa, GenderIn criminal law, the doctrine of common purpose establishes that where two or more people agree to a commit a ...
Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Part I/II)Ireland, United Kingdom, Immigration and AsylumIn November, two important judgments were handed down concerning the legal regime governing immigration detention ...
Eswatini Court Upholds a Widow’s Rights to Customary Land Use – A Beacon of Hope?Eswatini, GenderOn October 9th, Ethel Dlamini (nee Gule), an elderly Swazi woman and a widow, approached the Courts to seek an ...
Tanzania’s Withdrawal of Access to the African Court: Further Retrogression in Human Rights Protection in East AfricaTanzania, Access to JusticeThe Tanzanian government has withdrawn its special declaration to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ...
Gentrifying intersectionality in contemporary BrazilBrazil, Right to Equality and Non-DiscriminationOn 17 October 2019, for the first time in the history of Brazil’s Supreme Court, Silvia Souza, a black woman, ...
JCHR Report: The Right to Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital RevolutionUnited Kingdom, Right to PrivacyOn 3 November 2019, the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published a report on The Right to Privacy (Article ...
Why the Digitization of Welfare States is a Pressing Human Rights IssueRight to PrivacyIn this blog post, Director of NYU Law’s Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project, Christiaan van Veen, ...
Protests, Riots, Inequality and a New Constitution for ChileChile, Constitutions and Human RightsChile is in the middle of constitutional upheaval as president Piñera announced — although in a vague and obscure ...
CEDAW: The Every Woman Treaty that Already ExistsUnited Nations, GenderThere is an initiative for a new treaty focused on violence against women that calls itself the “Every Woman ...
Crimea Conscripts: Russia continues to flout the Geneva ConventionsUnited Nations, Conflict and Human RightsThe UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in its most recent Report on the Human Rights Situation ...
Human Rights Day 2019: Honouring Youth and Protecting Their RightsRight to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual and Reproductive RightsOn 10 December 2019, we commemorate Human Rights Day, 71 years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of ...