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 ...
Conservative Mobilization in Latin America and its Impacts on Women’s and Adolescents’ Human RightsBrazil, Abortion, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Life, Sexual and Reproductive Rights In the last decade, Brazil has experienced a dramatic change in the disputes between pro and anti ...
The Irish Referendum and the Road to Safe, Legal AbortionIreland, Abortion, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Life, Sexual and Reproductive RightsThe Irish government has now announced that it will hold a referendum on repealing the 8th Amendment in 2018. ...
When The Law is Not Enough: International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGMUnited Nations, Gender, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Sexual and Reproductive RightsOn February 6, UN International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), the international ...
The Representation of the People Act 1918: A Democratic Milestone in the UK and IrelandUnited Kingdom, Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination, Right to Vote The Representation of the People Act 1918 gave the UK Parliamentary vote to virtually all men and the ...
Four Reasons for Retaining the Charter: Part 4 – The Counter-Arguments and their WeaknessesUnited Kingdom, Brexit, Constitutions and Human RightsThe previous three posts examined the reasons for retaining the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in UK law after ...