International Women’s Day: Women and Girls Struggle for Equality in the Courts
What better time than International Women’s Day to embolden citizens to exercise their power over the judicial ...
Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination
Concerns about Greece from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), a Council of Europe body monitoring problems of ...
The Equality Agenda in 2015: Part I- The Constitutional Issues
This will be a year of political and constitutional turbulence for equality law. What changes can we expect after ...
Mainstreaming Disability in Development: The need for a Disability-Inclusive Post-2015 Development Agenda
As a report by the World Health Organization indicates, around 15% of the world’s population, roughly 1 billion ...
Racial Discrimination Act and Free Speech– Carte Blanche or Fair and Reasonable – Where are Human Rights in all This?
Professor George Williams has noted ‘the fact that freedom of speech receives no general protection in Australian ...
Recognising Travellers’ Needs: The Courts Begin to Move
Are courts beginning to recognize the duty of equality law to respect and protect the rights of minorities to be ...
Decisiones nominadas para la categoría Garrote en los Premios Género y Justicia al Descubierto 2015
Jueces y juezas de todo el mundo tienen que hacerse responsables de las decisiones discriminatorias que toman y ...
The ‘Bludgeon’ Nominees in the Gender Justice Uncovered Awards 2015
Judges from all over the world should be held accountable for the discriminatory decisions they issue on matters ...
Law Society of Canadian Province Nova Scotia is Found to Have Overstepped its Mandate, Violating Religious Freedoms
The first of a series of decisions that will shape how the balance is to be struck between Canada’s ...
Northern Ireland’s Human Rights Commission Granted Leave for Judicial Review to Challenge the Country’s Near-Blanket Ban on Abortion
Unlike the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland is not covered by the Abortion Act 1967. If you are a woman living ...
Rights Protection in 2014: A Review of the Indian Supreme Court
2014 was an interesting year for protection of fundamental rights by the Indian Supreme Court. We undertook an ...
The Handbook of Human Rights in Northern Ireland: Where Are We Now?
Northern Ireland’s most prominent human rights NGO is the Committee on the Administration of Justice. Founded in ...
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