Balancing Progress and Rights: India’s Struggle with Working Hour Norms Amid ILO Conventions
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) first convention in 1919 established an eight-hour workday and 48-hour workweek, aiming to balance productivity with worker welfare. A century later, India, an ILO founding...
Love, Lies, and the Law: The Quandary of Criminalising False Promise to Marry in India
Indian law is notorious for censuring sexuality outside of marriage, especially for women. A pertinent example is the criminalisation of a ‘false promise to marry’ (FPM) as rape, which recent...
The Case for Caution in Making Social Class a Protected Characteristic under the UK’s Equality Act 2010
Momentum is growing in the UK to make social class a statutory protected characteristic. The Co-Op, The British Psychological Society, and the Bridge Group, amongst others, have proposed legislative reform...
The Indian Supreme Court on Affirmative Action for the Upper Caste Poor – Part II
Image Description: A small signage which says ‘Reserved’. In this post, I continue to engage with the Indian Supreme Court’s decision in Janhit Abhiyan v Union of India. For an...
The Indian Supreme Court on Affirmative Action for the Upper Caste Poor – Part I
Image Description: A small signage which says ‘Reserved’ In Janhit Abhiyan v Union of India, a five-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court was asked to decide on the validity...
The provision of stationery as a component of the right to basic education in South Africa
Image Description: Pupils in a classroom in Cape Town, South Africa. There are over 80 pupils in this classroom and there are not enough desks or textbooks for the students...
Classism, Hate Crime and the Law Commission’s Consultation Paper 250: Lessons from Discrimination Law
In the context of hate crime, class has two main analytical roles. First, it can be a ground of hate crime in itself, though the current law fails to recognise...
Right to a Better World: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used to help ensure every woman’s and adolescent’s right to not...
The Big Gap in Discrimination Law: Class and the Equality Act 2010
With growing awareness of classism as a form of discrimination, it is becoming harder to deny its place in the Equality Act.
