Vikash Kumar: Dignity and Disability Rights at the Indian Supreme Court
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Right to dignity
What Price Comedy? Freedom of Expression and Dignity Clash at Canada’s Supreme Court
The boy with a subwoofer on his head. When I complained that he sang badly, I was told “He’s dying. Let him live ...
Sadaf Aziz v. Federation of Pakistan: The end of virginity testing in Pakistan?
Across Pakistan, the two finger test (TFT), also known as the virginity and hymen test is conducted on female ...
The constitutionality of section 10 of the South African Equality Act: a case for balancing the rights to equality, dignity and freedom of expression
Section 10 of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act (“the Equality Act”) has not ...
Right to housing and dignity denied: Indian Supreme Court orders eviction of slum dwellers within 3 months
In a recent order passed in the case of MC Mehta v. Union of India, the Supreme Court has given directions to ...
Separated, Locked Down, and Unequal: The Grey Hair Revolution’s resistance to draconian quarantine in Colombia
In July 2020, Colombian Administrative Judge Edith Alarcón-Bernal announced her decision to protect the rights to ...
Ireland: Historic Victory for Environmental Campaigners
In a landmark decision, the Irish Supreme Court has unanimously quashed what it termed the Irish Government’s ...
Kenyan High Court breaks rank with Supreme Court on the right to prompt notification for reasons of arrest
In Mohamed Feisal& 19 others v Henry Kandie et. Al. the Kenyan High Court departed from a decision by the ...
Discriminatory Torture of an LGBTI Person: Landmark Precedent Set by the Inter-American Court
Earlier this year, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued a landmark judgment Azul Rojas Marín ...
Intersectional Inequalities and Reproductive Rights: An India-Nepal Comparison
Recent judgments from India and Nepal are steeped in an intersectional understanding of inequality as a necessary ...
The Right to Privacy and Access to Abortion in a Post-Puttaswamy World
The new right to privacy could address the cultural and economic realities that exist within India which affect ...
A Common Denominator: The Role of the Anti-Exclusion Principle in Freedom of Religion Cases
The anti-exclusion principle is helpful as a common denominator for considering cases of conflict between ...
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