European Court of Human Rights to Consider Right to Education
James Rooney is one of the Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellows. The Fellowship is a ...
Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination
UN Rights Experts Warn Against the Grave Threat of Unsafe Abortions
A group of United Nations human rights experts have called on States to repeal restrictive abortion laws and ...
Legislating for Trans Equality: Recent Developments in the United Kingdom and Ireland
In January 2016, the House of Commons Select Committee on Women and Equalities published a landmark report on ...
Advancing the Right to Education in South Africa
James Rooney is one of the Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellows. The Fellowship is a ...
Promoting the Best Interests of the Child: Kenyan High Court Breathes Life into the Right to a Name and an Identity
In May 2016, the Kenyan Constitutional and Human Rights Division of the High Court in L.N.W v Attorney General ...
Who Benefits From India’s Move to Ban Commercial Surrogacy?
The press release on the latest draft Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill (the Surrogacy Regulation ...
Canada to Hold National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
On August 3, 2016, the government of Canada announced a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous ...
Is the two-thirds gender rule discourse engendering double invisibility in public life for other vulnerable groups in Kenya?
It is asserted that an enduring democracy is one that secures the meaningful participation of youth, women, ...
Velásquez Paiz et al v Guatemala: Femicide in Guatemala – Part II
On 19 November 2015, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) handed down a decision on gender-based ...
Velásquez Paiz et al v Guatemala: Gender Stereotypes and Lack of Justice – Part I
In November 2015, a decade after the sexual assault and murder of a young Guatemalan woman, the Inter-American ...
The Exclusion of Romani Communities from Non-Emergency Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Programs
One of the most pressing issues regarding Europe’s most marginalised ethnic minority remains their restricted ...
European Court of Human Rights Rules on Greek Debt Restructuring
There is a seemingly endless stream of cases originating from the Greek crisis, which has preoccupied the ...
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