When Good Law Is Not Enough: Disability Employment in Uganda after the African Disability Protocol
In May 2024, the African Disability Protocol entered into force: the first continental treaty on the rights of Africans with disabilities. For a state such as Uganda, which has ratified...
H.H. v. Finland: Irreconcilable Differences Between the European Convention on Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?
The European Court of Human Rights (Court) reached its final decision in the case of H.H. v. Finland on 9 December 2025. The case concerned the refusal of the Finnish...
Bervidi: Reasonable Accommodation for Parent of Child with Disability
For many persons with disabilities, their family and social network play an indispensable role in ensuring their participation in society and enjoyment of human rights. This applies clearly to the...
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...
