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Extraterritorial Human Rights and Climate Change at the ECtHR: The End of the Road?

Extraterritorial Human Rights and Climate Change at the ECtHR: The End of the Road?

By Lara Ibrahim |
On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or Court) handed down its judgment in the case of ...
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Military Justice in the Spotlight (Again): R v Edwards in the Supreme Court of Canada

Military Justice in the Spotlight (Again): R v Edwards in the Supreme Court of Canada

By Alison Duxbury |
Military justice is in the spotlight again with the Supreme Court of Canada’s judgment in R v Edwards [2024] SCC ...
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Lahore High Court Strikes Down the Discriminatory Gender-Based Age Difference in the Definition of ‘Child’ in the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929

Lahore High Court Strikes Down the Discriminatory Gender-Based Age Difference in the Definition of ‘Child’ in the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929

By Rida Tahir |
About 18.3% of girls and 4.7% of boys in Pakistan are married before the age of 18. Child marriage is a human ...
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The Rebellious Act of Consuming Meat in India: Non-vegetarianism and Taboo

The Rebellious Act of Consuming Meat in India: Non-vegetarianism and Taboo

By Samriddhi Chatterjee |
Food-delivery company Zomato recently came up with an “all-vegetarian fleet policy” wherein vegetarian food would ...
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Can CEDAW address the issue of Gender-based Poverty in Urban Areas?

Can CEDAW address the issue of Gender-based Poverty in Urban Areas?

By Kelly Jane Bishop |
By 2050, 66 per cent of the world’s population is projected to live in urban areas, and UN Women estimates that ...
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Bringing the Right to Strike Home: Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer – Part 2

Bringing the Right to Strike Home: Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer – Part 2

By Alan Bogg |
The first part of this blog outlined the facts and decision in the Supreme Court case, Secretary of State for ...
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Bringing the Right to Strike Home: Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer – Part 1

Bringing the Right to Strike Home: Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer – Part 1

By Alan Bogg |
Individual strikers are protected from dismissal where they are dismissed for participating in ‘protected’ (i.e ...
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A Game of Judicial Tennis: The Supreme Court in Mercer

A Game of Judicial Tennis: The Supreme Court in Mercer

By Ross Guinea McIntyre |
The Supreme Court has once again considered the proper scope of sections 3 and 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998 ...
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What is Your Name? – Gender Inequality Embedded in the Same-Surname System for Married Couples in Japan

What is Your Name? – Gender Inequality Embedded in the Same-Surname System for Married Couples in Japan

By Ayako Hatano |
Japan is the only country in the world that forbids married couples from using separate surnames. Couples can ...
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Labour Justice for India’s Community Care Workers (Part I)

Labour Justice for India’s Community Care Workers (Part I)

By Arunima Das |
Under India’s National Health Mission and the Integrated Child Development Scheme, a group of workers, referred to ...
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Labour Justice for India’s Community Care Workers (Part II)

Labour Justice for India’s Community Care Workers (Part II)

By Arunima Das |
Part I of this series discussed how in the Indian Supreme Court’s decision in Ameerbi, denial of minimum wages to ...
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No ‘Paradise on Earth’: Justice for Migrants from Japan to North Korea

No ‘Paradise on Earth’: Justice for Migrants from Japan to North Korea

By Andrew Wolman |
Over 93,000 ethnic Koreans and their families emigrated from Japan to North Korea during the period 1959-1984. ...
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