Aligning AI Procurement with Human Rights: A Call for Proactive Governance

Aligning AI Procurement with Human Rights: A Call for Proactive Governance

In June 2025, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights released a landmark report titled “Artificial ...
Constitutional Liberty under UAPA: Pre-Trial Punishment and the Criminalisation of Dissent in India

Constitutional Liberty under UAPA: Pre-Trial Punishment and the Criminalisation of Dissent in India

India’s Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (“UAPA”) was originally enacted to regulate “unlawful ...
Presumed Misuse, Denied Rights: Invisible Disabilities and the Structural Effects of Suspicion under Indian Law

Presumed Misuse, Denied Rights: Invisible Disabilities and the Structural Effects of Suspicion under Indian Law

Public controversies in India reignited longstanding anxieties around the integrity of affirmative action ...
ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States with Respect to Climate Change: Human Rights-Based Reflections on Due Diligence

ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States with Respect to Climate Change: Human Rights-Based Reflections on Due Diligence

I. INTRODUCTION The much anticipated  ICJ  Advisory Opinion of 23 July 2025 was historic in its affirmation of ...
When Context Trumps History: The Malema Case and Hate Speech Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa

When Context Trumps History: The Malema Case and Hate Speech Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Hate speech law in South Africa sits uneasily at the intersection of history and context. Nowhere is this clearer ...
Need for a Benignant View for Women’s Protection vis-a-vis Sexual Harassment in Advocacy

Need for a Benignant View for Women’s Protection vis-a-vis Sexual Harassment in Advocacy

Recently, UNS Women Advocates’ Association filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition in Bombay High Court ...
Locating the recognition or unrecognition of Arabic language in South Sudan’s legal frameworks

Locating the recognition or unrecognition of Arabic language in South Sudan’s legal frameworks

Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) – acceded to by South Sudan in ...
Is Bangladesh Violating Its ICCPR Obligations?

Is Bangladesh Violating Its ICCPR Obligations?

On 29 August 2025, Bangladesh witnessed an incident where a former Minister, Abdul Latif Siddique, Dhaka ...
IACtHR Recognises the ‘Right to Care’: What it Means and Why it Matters for Women’s Human Rights

IACtHR Recognises the ‘Right to Care’: What it Means and Why it Matters for Women’s Human Rights

In a historic decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) responding to a request from Argentina, ...
Big Tech, the Supreme Court and Brazil’s New Era of Civil Liability

Big Tech, the Supreme Court and Brazil’s New Era of Civil Liability

Brazil is at a crucial crossroads in the debate over the civil liability of providers of digital applications. ...
Queering Marriage Law in India (Part 6 of 6)

Queering Marriage Law in India (Part 6 of 6)

Marriage in India is a fraught issue, arranged between families and plagued by questions of caste, class and ...
The Curious Case of Bhagwati Pathwar: What has love got to do with it? (Part 5 of 6)

The Curious Case of Bhagwati Pathwar: What has love got to do with it? (Part 5 of 6)

In the Indian context, eloping and marrying outside of one’s faith or caste is a common occurrence but made ...
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