Christians in Malaysia have the right to use the word “Allah”
On 17 March 2021, the High Court in Malaya at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia delivered a landmark judgment in Jill ...
Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination
EU Headscarf Bans: The CJEU’s missed opportunity for reflection on neutrality in IX v Wabe and MH Müller Handels v MJ
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has been widely criticised for their decisions in the popular ...
Canada’s Failure: Climate Change and International Human Rights
“While I was breathing in wildfire smoke last month with Vancouver’s air quality rated worst in the world, ...
Religious Discrimination and Headscarves – Take Two
In IX v WABE eV (C‑804/18) and MH Müller Handels GmbH v MJ (C‑341/19), the CJEU returned to the vexed question of ...
Inevitability as the New Discrimination Defence: UK Supreme Court Mangles Indirect Discrimination Analysis While Finding the Two-Child Limit Lawful
The UK Supreme Court has delivered its long-awaited judgment in R (on the application of SC, CB and 8 children) ...
Association Accept and Others v. Romania: The European Court of Human Rights Takes a Fresh Look at Homophobic Speech and Biased Criminal-Law Enforcement
That hate-speech victims (who have sued unsuccessfully in a CoE member state) should obtain redress in Strasbourg ...
Digital Divide on the Promise of ‘Vaccination for All’: India
Recently, the apex court of India, in a hearing, held that a vaccination policy which exclusively relied on a ...
Human Rights Violations in Paradise: Lakshadweep’s Draft Regulations and their Potential Consequences on the Indigenous Tribal Populace
Recently, the administrator of India’s Lakshadweep islands, Praful Khoda Patel, introduced a slew of draft ...
What’s Next in Climate Litigation: The World’s Youth for Climate Justice Campaign for an Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice
What was once a “turn” in climate litigation, has now become its central driving force. This series has documented ...
India’s Covid-19 vaccination policy must protect the constitutional rights of its citizens
The Supreme Court of India has found the Government’s vaccine policy, released on 21st April 2021, to be prima ...
A Renewed Call for the Need for Recognition of the Non-Marital Family in the Irish Constitution
On 24th April 2021, the deliberations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality recommended forty five changes ...
The Achbita case: an Update from Belgium
In 2017 the Court of Justice (ECJ) pronounced its much criticised answers to two preliminary questions concerning ...
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