Ireland’s Marriage Equality Referendum
Today the Irish electorate is voting in a referendum to explicitly permit of same-sex marriage. If passed, the new Article 41.4, which would be the 34th Amendment to the Constitution,...
Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination
Abortion As A Human Right: Should the Law in Northern Ireland Be Reformed?
Why do women living in Northern Ireland have to travel to London to have an abortion? At an event hosted by Oxford University Amnesty International Society, in association with the...
Religion in the classroom: Loyola High School versus the Supreme Court of Canada
In Quebec the Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports mandated that all schools, including private schools, taught a program on “Ethics and Religious Culture” (ERC). The program had to teach...
La Corte Suprema de Argentina dice que las manos de las mujeres pueden ser utilizadas para algo más que “demostrar sus artes culinarias”
La Corte Suprema de Argentina ordena a las empresas de transportes cumplir con las obligaciones positivas de no discriminación para asegurar que las mujeres puedan trabajar como conductoras de buses...
Argentinian Supreme Court Rules Women’s Hands Can Be Used for More than “Demonstrating their Culinary Skills”
Argentinian Supreme Court rules transit companies must fulfill positive obligations of non-discrimination to ensure women are permitted to work as bus drivers, rejecting transit company’s stereotypical comment that their hands...
The US Constitutional Status of Same-Sex Marriage – An Issue that Can No Longer be Avoided
This week the Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral argument in what will no doubt be considered one of the most important civil rights cases of our...
Violence against Women in Pakistan – Between Law and Reality
The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap 2014 report places Pakistan as the second lowest performing country in the world in terms of gender equality. In Pakistan’s rural areas instances...
Kenyan High Court Declares Law Criminalizing HIV Transmission Unconstitutional
On 18 March 2015, in Aids Law Project v Attorney General and Others [2015] the High Court of Kenya declared section 24 of the HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control...
Disability Defence to Possession can Rarely be Decided Summarily: Akerman-Livinsgtone v Aster Communities Ltd
This note considers the procedural implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Akerman-Livingstone, which held that the proportionality exercise for a discrimination defence to a possession claim under the Equality...
Indigenous Recognition, Human Rights, and the Purpose of the Australian Constitution
At some point in the next few years, Australians are likely to vote in a referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to address issues relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Blasphemy Laws and Human Rights in Pakistan
Notorious blasphemy laws have a significant impact on minority communities in Pakistan. Particularly their right to life, freedom of speech and freedom of religion as enshrined in Pakistan’s constitution and...
Damaged and Disregarded: Children’s Interests in the Benefit Cap Decision
Following on from Paul Scott’s post, this contribution will consider how the Supreme Court in SG dealt with the interests of children in analysing whether the benefits cap was justified...
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