Recognising ASHA Workers in India: The Need for a Legislative Revamp
Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA workers) play a key role in rural India’s public health infrastructure. Their struggle for employment equality has been long fought, and the pandemic has exacerbated...
Keeping a Roof Over Your Head: Diverging Approaches to Pandemic Evictions in Brazil and the US
On April 28, 2020, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing issued a guidance note calling on states to ‘[d]eclare an end to all evictions of anyone,...
Digital Divide on the Promise of ‘Vaccination for All’: India
Recently, the apex court of India, in a hearing, held that a vaccination policy which exclusively relied on a digital portal for vaccinating a significant percentage of the population would...
What employees need to know about their rights during COVID
Since the start of the global COVID pandemic, many employees have experienced upheaval, uncertainty, and disruption within their jobs. Some employees have experienced worry about their own personal safety when...
Australia’s outbound travel ban limits the freedom of movement
On 1st of June 2021, the Australian Federal court unanimously rejected a challenge to Australia’s outbound travel ban, making it the fourth unsuccessful attempt of challenging coronavirus restrictions in the...
India’s Covid-19 vaccination policy must protect the constitutional rights of its citizens
The Supreme Court of India has found the Government’s vaccine policy, released on 21st April 2021, to be prima facie detrimental to the right to public health and equality. This...
Hong Kong: Anti-Mask Law Held Constitutional (but please wear a mask for COVID-19)
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (“HKCFA”) recently held that the Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation(“PFCR”) was constitutional. The PFCR was introduced by the Chief Executive in Council on...
COVID-19 pandemic exposes cost of MENA governments’ lack of human rights standards for businesses
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) continues to stand out as a region with repeated and serious abuses of human rights. We are on the cusp of the 10th...
Joint Report Examines ‘Systemic’ Corruption in the South African Water Sector—But What Of Human Rights?
A seminal joint report published by the Water Integrity Network and Corruption Watch earlier this year critically examines corruption in the South African Department of Water and Sanitation. The report...
Kenyan Lessons on the right to education as a human right amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
In BPA v Directors, Brookhouse Schools, a group of parents ofminors at Brookhouse Schools, a private school, challenged the introduction of the virtual learning programme, following the shutdown of schools...
The US ‘Snapback Sanctions’ on Iran Tantamount to Crimes Against Humanity
In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term Nuclear Deal on its nuclear programme with the world powers known as the P5+1 – the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany. The...
Arbitrary & Disproportionate Criminalisation of Marginalised Communities: A Countermap of Pandemic Policing in India
The Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project studied 34,000 arrest records and 500 First Information Reports filed in Madhya Pradesh, India to understand the patterns of pandemic policing and locate...
