Constitutions and Human Rights

A Case for an Objective Threshold in Tax Exemption of Persons with Disabilities in Kenya

A Case for an Objective Threshold in Tax Exemption of Persons with Disabilities in Kenya

Image Description: A Kenyan mother and her daughter are pictured close-up on their faces. The mother looks toward the camera while the child gazes elsewhere. The daughter has a developmental...
You Have The Right to Insult a President: Repealing Zambia’s Penal Code Section 69

You Have The Right to Insult a President: Repealing Zambia’s Penal Code Section 69

Image description: Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema addresses the European Union from a podium In 1965, Zambia’s first independent president Kenneth Kaunda introduced Section 69 to Zambia’s Penal Code to criminalise...
Gendered Constitutionalism

Gendered Constitutionalism

Oxford Human Rights Hub · Gendered Constitutionalism In this week’s episode, we talk to Ruth Rubio, Professor in the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute, about her...
Spain: Judicial Intervention by the Tribunal Constitucional in a Key Parliamentary Debate – Part II

Spain: Judicial Intervention by the Tribunal Constitucional in a Key Parliamentary Debate – Part II

Image description: a session of the Spanish Parliament (Congreso de Disputados) The intervention of the Tribunal Constitucional in the parliamentary debate in Spain, as discussed to in Part I, has...
Spain: Judicial Intervention by the Tribunal Constitucional in a Key Parliamentary Debate – Part I

Spain: Judicial Intervention by the Tribunal Constitucional in a Key Parliamentary Debate – Part I

Image description: the Spanish Constitutional Court (Tribunal Constitucional). On the 19th of December 2022, the Spanish Tribunal Constitucional took a very controversial decision by suspending a parliamentary debate in the...
Challenging Draft Bills and the Role of the ECOWAS Court

Challenging Draft Bills and the Role of the ECOWAS Court

Image Description: Ghanian military official gives speech from a podium at a regional summit with flags of West African nations behind In the case of Dr Jacob Abdulahi & 5...
Protecting Anti-Apartheid Songs Under the Rubric of Free Speech

Protecting Anti-Apartheid Songs Under the Rubric of Free Speech

Image description: Crowd of women, men, and children pictured dancing to music at Umgababa, South Africa Music is a common feature of political environments in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): politicians typically...
Challenging the Right to Strike: the UK Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill

Challenging the Right to Strike: the UK Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill

Image description: A group of striking people march through a city street holding union banners The Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, currently passing through the UK Parliament, seeks to...
Segundo Proyecto de Chile: una oportunidad para hacer efectivos los derechos humanos indígenas a través de la ley constitucional

Segundo Proyecto de Chile: una oportunidad para hacer efectivos los derechos humanos indígenas a través de la ley constitucional

Descripción de la imagen: Representantes indígenas se reúnen con la presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet, en el Día Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas, el 24 de junio de 2015. Dos...
Chile’s Second Draft: an Opportunity to Enforce Indigenous Human Rights through Constitutional Law

Chile’s Second Draft: an Opportunity to Enforce Indigenous Human Rights through Constitutional Law

Image description: Indigenous representatives meet with Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet on the National Day of Indigenous People’s, 24 June 2015. Two indigenous women stand, with Bachelet between them, while the...
The Paris Agreement as a Human Rights Treaty: PSB et al. v Brazil

The Paris Agreement as a Human Rights Treaty: PSB et al. v Brazil

Image description: Satellite image of Brazil during natural disaster crisis in 2020 In late October, Brazil ousted incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and elected Lula, who has since promised to cut...
A Conversation with Justice Majiedt of the South African Constitutional Court

A Conversation with Justice Majiedt of the South African Constitutional Court

Oxford Human Rights Hub · A Conversation with Justice Majiedt of the South African Constitutional Court In this episode, we speak to Justice Steven Majiedt of the Constitutional Court of...
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