Searching for the "T" in LGBT Advocacy
On August 30, 2014, the prominent UK lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) rights group, Stonewall, held a workshop with ...
Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination
Histórica Decisión de CEDAW en un Caso de Violencia de Género
En su reciente decisión sobre el caso de Ángela González, una mujer española superviviente de la violencia de ...
CEDAW Issues a Historic Ruling in a Gender Violence Case
In its recent ruling on the case of Ángela González, a Spanish gender violence survivor who fought for years to ...
Gays: a Prohibited Class in CARICOM?
In the western hemisphere, only 11 Caribbean states still criminalize private consensual adult same-gender ...
Uganda’s anti-homosexuality law and our cultural wars
Future historians will reference the developments around Uganda’s anti-homosexuality law as a textbook example of ...
Indian Lip Service to the UNCRPD: Examining the Persons with Disabilities Bill 2014
Having ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007, India was ...
Hämäläinen v Finland: The Transgender Divorce Requirement in Strasbourg
In the landmark 2002 decision, Goodwin v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”), citing an ...
Religious anti-gay refusal – valuing dissent without making it lawful
According to Supreme Court judge, Lady Hale, the law has yet to find the right balance between accommodating ...
The Problem of Progressive Realization – Protecting the Rights of the Disabled in Jamaica
Jamaica boasts of being the first country in the world to both sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on ...
Professor Frances Raday Comments on SAS v France
In the Grand Chamber judgment in the case of S.A.S. v. France, the European Court of Human Rights held, by a ...
The Irrelevance of Residence: The Unlawful ‘Residence Test’ for Legal Aid
In R (Public Law Project) v Secretary of State for Justice, the Administrative Court held that the Government’s ...
When does being better qualified provide you with fewer opportunities?
The answer: when you’re a member of one of the UK’s many ethnic minorities.
Figures from the University of ...
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