Public Purpose or Private Interest? The Supreme Court of India’s Scrutiny of Land Acquisition for a University Project in Tribal Areas

Public Purpose or Private Interest? The Supreme Court of India’s Scrutiny of Land Acquisition for a University Project in Tribal Areas

The Supreme Court of India recently delivered a landmark judgment in Anil Agarwal Foundation Etc v State of Orissa ...
Commentary on the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education

Commentary on the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education

The Guiding Principles on the human rights obligations of states to provide public education and to regulate ...
لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے برطانوی نوآبادیاتی دور کے غداری کے قانون کو کالعدم قرار دے دیا

لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے برطانوی نوآبادیاتی دور کے غداری کے قانون کو کالعدم قرار دے دیا

30 مارچ 2023 کو لاہور ہائی کورٹ کے جسٹس شاہد کریم نے ہارون فاروق بمقابلہ فیڈریشن آف پاکستان کیس کا تاریخی فیصلہ  ...
Lahore High Court Strikes Down Pakistan’s Colonial-era Sedition Law

Lahore High Court Strikes Down Pakistan’s Colonial-era Sedition Law

On March 30 2023, Justice Shahid Karim of the Lahore High Court (LHC) delivered a landmark judgment in Haroon ...
The Coronation, the Public Order Act 2023 and ‘Free Speech’

The Coronation, the Public Order Act 2023 and ‘Free Speech’

In recent years, a lot has been written about ‘the right to protest’ and ‘the right to free speech’ in the UK. Yet ...
Horizontal Reservation for India’s Transgender Community: Can the Supreme Court Deliver?

Horizontal Reservation for India’s Transgender Community: Can the Supreme Court Deliver?

India’s queer community is struggling to realise its civil rights on multiple fronts. The Indian Supreme Court has ...
Moraru v Romania: ECtHR Protects Against Size-based Discrimination

Moraru v Romania: ECtHR Protects Against Size-based Discrimination

In November 2022, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that height and weight requirements for participation ...
Make-Believe: Indictment of Two Activists Reveals the Truth About Freedom of Expression in Indonesia

Make-Believe: Indictment of Two Activists Reveals the Truth About Freedom of Expression in Indonesia

On 3 April 2023, the trial of two Indonesian activists, accused of defamation by the Minister of Maritime and ...
What’s next in Climate Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights? Duarte Agostinho and Others v Portugal and 32 other States

What’s next in Climate Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights? Duarte Agostinho and Others v Portugal and 32 other States

On 29 March 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) heard its first two climate cases (Verein Klima ...
Gender-based Violence, LGBTQIA+ Rights, and Christian Values in Zambia

Gender-based Violence, LGBTQIA+ Rights, and Christian Values in Zambia

Since 2019 the Sistah Sistah Foundation (SSF) has marched in protest of sexual and gender-based violence in ...
Ireland’s Abortion Law Reform

Ireland’s Abortion Law Reform

The report of the Independent Review of Ireland’s abortion legislation was published this week. Abortion ...
L’ambitieuse loi française sur les entreprises et les droits de l’homme sera mise à l’épreuve : l’affaire Yemen LNG

L’ambitieuse loi française sur les entreprises et les droits de l’homme sera mise à l’épreuve : l’affaire Yemen LNG

Le 22 février 2023, groupe des droits MENA a intenté une action en justice devant un tribunal parisien contre ...