Access Denied: Assessing Thailand’s Legal Obligations to Displaced Persons from Prey Chan and Chouk Chey (Ban Nong Ya Kaeo) Under International Humanitarian Law
There are reports of forced displacements at the disputed Thai-Cambodian border areas. The villages of Prey Chan and Chouk Chey (Ban Nong Ya Kaeo in Thai sources) have seen Cambodian...
Amending Article 319 of Senegal’s 1965 Penal Code Violates the Human Right to Health
On 11th March 2026, Senegal passed a bill doubling the punishment enshrined in the queerphobic provision Article 319 of the 1965 Penal Code from a maximum imprisonment of five years...
Algeria’s Law on French Colonisation: A possible pathway to recognise Colonisation as a Crime against Humanity?
On 24 December 2025, the Algerian parliament voted unanimously to adopt a law recognising French colonisation as a state crime. For many Algerians, this law constitutes both an affirmation of...
Nouvelle loi algérienne sur la colonisation française : un pas de plus vers la reconnaissance de la colonisation comme crime contre l’humanité ?
Ce 24 décembre 2025, le Parlement algérien a voté à l’unanimité une loi visant à reconnaître la colonisation française comme un crime d’état. Pour la majorité des Algériens, cette nouvelle...
The Right to Die with Dignity: Indian Supreme Court in Harish Rana v. Union of India
On March 11, 2026, the Supreme Court of India, in Harish Rana v. Union of India, allowed the withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) from a man who...
Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 2 – Comparative Global South Perspectives
In Part 1, I examined how Bangladesh’s interim government weaponized legal frameworks to suppress the press; Part 2 broadens the lens to parallel patterns across the wider Global South and...
Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 1 – Bangladesh
This two-part blog examines how transitional governments in the Global South systematically suppress press freedom through “weaponized legalism”—the use of formally legal procedures to violate fundamental rights while maintaining constitutional...
Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure – Stateless Citizens Elegy: Part 1- On Arbitrariness of Procedural requirements of SOP
On 9.09.2025, Assam’s Chief Minister approved the Standard Operating Procedure (‘SOP’) for implementation of the Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam ) Act 1950 (‘Act’), thereby empowering the state government to bypass...
Transgender Rights in Employment after Jane Kaushik v. Union of India: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Ruling
In October 2025, in Jane Kaushik v Union of India, the Indian Supreme Court confronted a form of exclusion that has become routine rather than exceptional. A transgender teacher was...
India’s Deepfake Dilemma: Why Publicity Rights and the Proposed Intermediary Rules Both Miss the Mark
On October 22, 2025, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) proposed a set of amendments to the existing Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules,...
Reassessing Corporate Due Diligence Standards in Dual-Use Technology Supply Chains
Amnesty International’s recent report “Shadows of Control” documents how companies from Germany, the UAE, Canada, China, the US, and France have supplied surveillance and censorship technologies to Pakistan: technologies now...
The SNAP Crisis and Socio-Economic Rights: Does it matter that the United States has not ratified the ICESCR?
On 24 October 2025, during a government shutdown, the US Department of Agriculture announced that it would halt monthly food assistance payments to over 42 million Americans as part of...
