Beyond the Ranking: What India’s Fall in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index Reveals About the Limits of Constitutional Protection
India’s fall from 151st to 157th place in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index has reignited debate about the state of media freedom in the world’s largest democracy. Reporters Without...
HKSAR v Lai Chee Ying: The Good, The Bad and The Uncertain
Introduction On 15 December 2025, the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong handed down a monumental 855-page judgment in the case of HKSAR v Lai...
The Kerala High Court’s Sex Work Ruling: A Human Rights Crisis in the Making
When courts rule on the lives of vulnerable communities without grounding their decisions in lived realities, the result is often not protection but harm. In July 2025, the Kerala High...
The French Hate Speech Regulation : A Nail in the Coffin For Free Speech?
The French National Assembly passed a law (‘Avia law’) in order to curb the growth of hate speech on the internet. Although a draft of the law was first tabled...
