The South African Public Protector’s Remedial Powers: A Need for Clarity
The South African Public Protector is a critically important constitutional institution. The Public Protector is tasked, along with other Chapter Nine institutions, with strengthening constitutional democracy in South Africa. Indeed,...
The South African Public Protector's Remedial Powers: A Need for Clarity
The South African Public Protector is a critically important constitutional institution. The Public Protector is tasked, along with other Chapter Nine institutions, with strengthening constitutional democracy in South Africa. Indeed,...
National Pro Bono Week – SAJAP: Facilitating Justice in Namibia
We continue our celebration of National Pro Bono Week (NPBW), today with a post from Claire Palmer on her experiences as an intern at the Supreme Court of Namibia in...
Human Rights in the UK Media: Representation and Reality
On 19 September, the Human Rights and International Law Unit of the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool hosted a one day seminar – part...
Is An Obsession With Foreign Investment Eroding Democracy in Papua New Guinea?
Often described as “an island of gold floating on a sea of oil”, Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the top ten resource-dependent economies in the world. But robust...
Civil Society Wants its Voice Heard in Post-2015 Development
During the last week of August the UN headquarters in New York was effectively taken over by civil society. Over 4000 participants from non-governmental organisations around the world gathered for...
Charting the Future of Development: A Tale of Two Agendas
Editor’s note: this post is the winning entry for the OxHRH Summer Short Essay Competition 2014. For its sheer scale, poverty is the greatest systemic human rights violation of...
The Sustainable Development Goals: a new vision of development?
On 19 July, after eighteen months of fraught negotiation, a UN Open Working Group of seventy governments adopted a proposal for seventeen goals to ensure a sustainable future—economically, socially, and...
La reforma constitucional en materia de derechos humanos en México y la impunidad: las víctimas en el laberinto
La situación de derechos humanos en México ha sufrido un deterioro notorio en los últimos años debido a múltiples factores (como la debilidad del estado de derecho, el incremento del...
The Mexican Human Rights Constitutional Amendment and Impunity: Victims in a Labyrinth
The human rights situation in Mexico has suffered a notorious deterioration in the past few years due to multiple factors (such as the weakness of the rule of law, the...
Why Should Anyone Care About The UN? The UN Forum 2014
The UN Forum 2014, orchestrated by the United Nations Association-UK on 28 June, was the largest public event on the United Nations in recent decades. UN representatives explained to the...
Mind the values gap: do we really believe in the Constitution?
South Africans often proudly proclaim that our Constitution is one of the most progressive in the world. Yet if you ask most South Africans how they really feel about gay...
