Pauni recounts the counting of sick days: Exhausted sick leave does not automatically exhaust employer duties
Under EU law, counting sick days to determine whether an employee has exceeded a certain limit after which they can be dismissed may still amount to indirect disability discrimination prohibited...
Presumed Misuse, Denied Rights: Invisible Disabilities and the Structural Effects of Suspicion under Indian Law
Public controversies in India reignited longstanding anxieties around the integrity of affirmative action frameworks. The case of a probationary civil servant misrepresenting herself as disabled to avail disability quota, has...
Invisible Deaths: The Case for a National Disability Mortality Registry in India
In July 2024, Delhi witnessed the death of 14 residents at Asha Kiran Shelter, a state-run residential institution for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. These deaths, linked to anaemia,...
When The Shield Becomes A Sword: The Abuse Of Involuntary Treatment Provisions For Mentally Ill Persons In India
The involuntary admission and treatment of persons with mental illness is a breach of privacy and autonomy. It can also be a dehumanising experience for the patient and there have...
Access Denied? Disability and Digital Identification in India: Reflections after Pragya Prasun and Amar Jain
On 30 April 2025, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered a landmark judgment in Pragya Prasun & Ors. v. Union of India and Amar Jain v....
No Animal Left Behind: Kiwi’s Call to Change New Zealand Disaster Law
New Zealand’s efforts to reform its emergency management law have highlighted a persistent gap between public sentiment and legislative action, particularly regarding the protection of animals during disasters. Despite robust...
Twenty-Five Years of Protection Against Disability-based Discrimination in the EU
The Oxford Human Rights Hub has curated a series of 8 blogposts reflecting on 25 years of the Employment Equality Directive & disability rights in the EU, the meaning &...
Accommodating Disability in the Justice System: TC and UB v Komisia za zashtita ot diskriminatsia (4/8)
The decision of the Court of Justice in TC and UB v Komisia za zashtita ot diskriminatsia (TC and UB) can be considered a milestone in the line of case...
Tartu Vangla – A Step Closer to Full Alignment of EU law with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (3/8)
In Tartu Vangla the Court of Justice of the EU (”the Court”) reiterated that employers must conduct an individualised assessment to determine if an employee with a disability can perform...
Disability discrimination in the EU: The Scope of Comparison (2/8)
Can disabled workers compare themselves to other disabled workers for the purposes of a discrimination claim under the Employment Equality Directive? And if an apparently neutral rule disadvantages some disabled...
Twenty-five Years of Protection Against Disability-based Discrimination in the EU: An Evolving Understanding of Disability (1/8)
Twenty-five years ago, the EU legally enshrined the prohibition of discrimination based on disability in the Employment Equality Directive. A series of posts coordinated by the Berkeley Center on Comparative...
Decriminalising Suicide: Kenya’s High Court Paves the Way for Mental Health Reform
In a groundbreaking judgment, the High Court of Kenya declared Section 226 of the Penal Code, which criminalised attempted suicide, as unconstitutional. This decision represents a significant step in recognising...
