2020 edition of The Geneva Challenge – Advancing Development Goals International Contest for graduate students

2020 edition of The Geneva Challenge – Advancing Development Goals International Contest for graduate students

The Geneva Challenge is a project funded by Swiss Ambassador Jenö Staehelin and aims to encourage ...
Dilution of the Presumption of Innocence Principle in India

Dilution of the Presumption of Innocence Principle in India

In two cases decided in 2019, the Bombay and Calcutta High Courts adopted diverging positions regarding the ...
Supreme Court of Sri Lanka Recognises Custodial Death as a Violation of the Right to Life

Supreme Court of Sri Lanka Recognises Custodial Death as a Violation of the Right to Life

In the landmark judgement of Rathnayake Tharanga Lakmali v Niroshan Abeykoon, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka held ...
Trumping Human Rights in the United States? The Commission on Unalienable Rights

Trumping Human Rights in the United States? The Commission on Unalienable Rights

It is a common and very productive exercise, within contemporary philosophical or anthropological inquires, to ...
The Gambia v Myanmar: ICJ upholds the rights of Rohingyas

The Gambia v Myanmar: ICJ upholds the rights of Rohingyas

On January 23, the International Court of Justice announced the imposition of provisional measures against ...
Talk: Barristers Under Threat – How a protest by common law lawyers sparked an ongoing civil war

Talk: Barristers Under Threat – How a protest by common law lawyers sparked an ongoing civil war

7pm on 11th March at University College in the 12 Merton Street Lecture Theatre. In 2016, barristers in an ...
Oxford/George Washington 2020 Summer School in International Human Rights Law – admissions now open

Oxford/George Washington 2020 Summer School in International Human Rights Law – admissions now open

We are pleased to announce that applications for the 2020 Summer School in International Human Rights Law, held at ...
Faith, Ethics and Organ Donation Conference by the Woolf Institute

Faith, Ethics and Organ Donation Conference by the Woolf Institute

Overview The one-day conference to be held on Monday 17 February 12-5pm will bring together medical ...
The High Court of Malawi Nullifies May 2019 Presidential Election in Landmark Judgment

The High Court of Malawi Nullifies May 2019 Presidential Election in Landmark Judgment

In a landmark judgment, Saulos Klaus Chilima & Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera v Arthur Peter Mutharika & ...
A novel approach to Get refusal: the use of the offence of coercive control to obtain a religious divorce

A novel approach to Get refusal: the use of the offence of coercive control to obtain a religious divorce

For Jewish women, obtaining a religious divorce (Get) can be life-changing. Women denied a Get are considered ...
Release of ‘Even the Finest Warriors’ – a book on human rights defenders in Egypt and Tunisia

Release of ‘Even the Finest Warriors’ – a book on human rights defenders in Egypt and Tunisia

More than a year and a half have passed since the start of “Even the Finest of Warriors” project, and at the end ...