CEDAW, the Law and Intersectionality: Using Legislation to Improve the Health of Women Being Left Behind
The Oxford Human Rights Hub is delighted to announce our keynote speaker event for Michaelmas Term 2022: CEDAW, ...
Intersectional discrimination
The Death Penalty and its Arbitrary Use to Punish LGBTIQ Persons
Image Description: In the photograph, there are many hangman's nooses/knots in a room. Through one of these ...
A Missed Opportunity for the Supreme Court of India – The Appellant with Learning Disability and Indirect Discrimination
Image Description: A picture of the Supreme Court of India taken from inside the building.
In a notable ...
New Frontiers of LGBTQ+ Liberation
Image description: A person standing in the middle of a street waving a rainbow flag. The sky is bright blue and ...
Do Not Thwart Women’s Employment, Facilitate It: Indian Supreme Court Strikes Down Arbitrary Gender-Based Restrictions to Restaurant Orchestras
Image description: A group of women, many of whom are smiling or laughing.
The Indian Supreme Court recently ...
Manuela v El Salvador: A Missed Opportunity for Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Image description: A march supporting decriminalisation of abortion. One of the participants is a woman wearing ...
Why Legislate Intersectional Gender Parity Acts for Parliaments? The Case of Germany
The German Constitution provides in Article 3 (2) that “[m]en and women shall have equal rights. The state shall ...
Emerging from the COVID 19 Pandemic: What role for the Forgotten Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions in the ICESCR?
As the world confronts the devastating impact of the COVID pandemic it must tackle the thorny related problems of ...
Assessing Vulnerability: Asylum Seekers with Disabilities in Direct Provision in Ireland
Asylum seekers with disabilities are largely invisible in the international protection system in Ireland. They ...
Proposed Voter ID Reforms in the UK: The Dangers of ‘Fraud’ Based Regulation
The UK government’s Election Bill containing controversial Voter ID provisions is progressing with haste through ...
The Exploitation of Racism and Misogyny by Twitter and the Struggle of Black People in Brazil
A year ago, here in Brazil, a ten-year-old Black girl in the state of Espírito Santo was raped by her uncle and ...
Más mujeres en los órganos y mecanismos de derechos humanos: la Resolución 47/51 del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU.
El 21 de mayo de 2021 el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas (CDH) publicó el informe: “Nivel actual de ...
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