High Court of Kenya suspends implementation of biometric ID system

High Court of Kenya suspends implementation of biometric ID system

On 30 January 2020, the High Court of Kenya – the first level of the country’s superior courts, whose decisions ...
Coronavirus and the Right to Health of Prisoners

Coronavirus and the Right to Health of Prisoners

With over 500 cases of COVID-19 reported in Chinese prisons and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian ...
Employment Opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellow in ARC Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

Employment Opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellow in ARC Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

Applications are now open for a fixed-term Postdoctoral Fellowship with the ARC Laureate Program in Comparative ...
Foodora Couriers are ‘Dependent Contractors’ Rules Ontario Labour Relations Board

Foodora Couriers are ‘Dependent Contractors’ Rules Ontario Labour Relations Board

In August 2019, couriers working for Foodora Inc. (Foodora), a web services company that provides an online ...
French Court of Cassation Rules that Uber Drivers are  Employees

French Court of Cassation Rules that Uber Drivers are Employees

On 4th of March 2020, French Court of Cassation (the country’s highest court for civil matters) in a landmark ...
Reverse racism is coming: the backlash against race conscious politics in contemporary Brazil

Reverse racism is coming: the backlash against race conscious politics in contemporary Brazil

In February 2020, Brazil witnessed two judicial decisions that indicate backlash efforts against race informed ...
Cancelled: OxHRH Solidarity with UCU Strike: Teach-Out on the Right to Education

Cancelled: OxHRH Solidarity with UCU Strike: Teach-Out on the Right to Education

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19. In ...
Campaigning for a Living Wage and Fair Contracts at Oxford University

Campaigning for a Living Wage and Fair Contracts at Oxford University

Last week, the University of Oxford announced its commitment to pay the Oxford Living Wage (OLW) to all of its ...
International Women’s Day: Time for Action to Accelerate Equal Access to Maternity Care for Mothers with Disabilities

International Women’s Day: Time for Action to Accelerate Equal Access to Maternity Care for Mothers with Disabilities

March 8th marks International Women’s Day – a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political ...
Special Advocates in the Adversarial System: A Panel Discussion

Special Advocates in the Adversarial System: A Panel Discussion

The panel will be held 31 March 2020, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm at Gideon Schreier LT, UCL Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh ...
Sexual Violence and Genocide: The International Court of Justice’s ruling on Rohingya

Sexual Violence and Genocide: The International Court of Justice’s ruling on Rohingya

Since August 2017, at least 10,000 Rohingya – a Muslim minority group in Myanmar’s Rakhine state – have been ...
Women’s Equality: Paradigm and Backlash

Women’s Equality: Paradigm and Backlash

Women's rights seemed simple 72 years ago, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, under the visionary ...