Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation in Ukraine
Image description: The Mariinskyi Palace, the official residence of the President of Ukraine. Despite the war and the challenging economic situation in Ukraine, the gender rights issues are still actual,...
A Lacuna in the Kenyan Penal Code Provisions on Abortion
Image description: Posters on street advertising abortion clinics. In recent years, the Kenyan judiciary has made significant strides in reforming abortion law in Kenya. On 24 March 2022, the High...
A Historic Moment: The Drafting of the New Chilean Constitution
TRANSCRIPT: RightsUp Episode: Professor Roberto Gargarella Gautam Bhatia (0:09) You’re listening to Rights Up, a podcast from the Oxford Human Rights Hub. My name is Gautam Bhatia, and I’m a...
Khalifa v Secretary for National Treasury and Planning: A New Dawn for the Right to Access of Information in Kenya
Image description: Man approaches Parliament Buildings in Nairobi, Kenya The monumental decision in Khalifa and Another v Secretary, National Treasury and Planning and 4 Others spells a new dawn for...
Discrimination in Indian Blood Donation Policy
Image description: People in India march at a gay pride rally with rainbow balloons and flags. India famously decriminalised homosexuality (s 377 of the Indian Penal Code) in the historic...
Dobbs Employs Narrow Framing to Narrow Fundamental Rights
Image description: A picture of the front entrance of the US Supreme Court building, which has ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ carved into it. Dobbs holds that the Fourteenth Amendment does...
West Virginia v EPA: Thwarting Robust Legal Reasoning
Image description: Coat of arms of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. In West Virginia v Environmental Protection Agency (30 June 2022), a six-person majority of the US Supreme Court...
When is a Right Not a Right? The British Bill of Rights
Image description: Front page of British Bill of Rights Bill. The Bill of Rights Bill, which repeals the Human Rights Act 1998, claims to ‘give effect’ to the rights set...
A Bone Tossed to the Europhobes – Free Speech in Britain’s Proposed Bill of Rights
Image Description: Graffiti of “Free Speech” on a red brick wall with a person with their back to the camera in a pink t-shirt, baseball cap and shorts standing beside...
One Step Forward and Two Steps Back – The Bill of Rights Bill and Overseas Military Operations
The development of human rights protection throughout history has been characterised by cycles of advancement and regression. The US constitution’s idealistic declarations of equality and freedom swiftly gave way to...
Clause Seven of the Bill of Rights Bill: Diluting Rights Protection and Undermining Parliamentary Democracy
Image description: The Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom and his attendants If enacted in its present form the Bill of Rights Bill would compromise judicial independence, dilute ECHR rights...
The Bill of Rights Bill: Playing Fast and Loose with the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (Again)
Image Description: The Crest of the UK The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement 1998 (GFA) were deeply interconnected. Throughout the negotiations which led to the...
