Stereotyping as Direct Discrimination?
The Hungarian Equal Treatment Authority (ETA) found that the entrance policy of a music club violated ...
Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Crime of “Homosexuality” under Cameroon Criminal Law
According to Human Rights Watch there are 76 countries in the world that prosecute people for having consensual ...
Naz Foundation: Reading Down the Supreme Court
There is no doubt that the Supreme Court in Suresh Kumar v Naz Foundation held that section 377 of the Indian ...
The Commonwealth v The Australian Capital Territory: Marriage Equality in the High Court
On Thursday the High Court of Australia effectively struck down the nation’s first same-sex marriage laws. But ...
Of Koushal v NAZ Foundation’s Several Travesties: Discrimination and Democracy
There are many things wrong about the 98 page decision of the Indian Supreme Court in Suresh Kumar Koushal v NAZ ...
Taking Conscience Seriously
Ladele (see previous posts) exemplifies an important public debate: has the embrace of gay equality by the liberal ...
Fundamental Human Rights and the Community Law of CARICOM
In 1973, pursuant to the Treaty of Chaguaramas (ToC), the independent countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean and ...
True Reconciliation Requires a Treaty
Treaties are accepted around the world as the means of reaching a settlement between Indigenous peoples and those ...
European Court of Human Rights Rules on Same-Sex Civil Partnerships
In the case of Vallianatos and Others v. Greece, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights held that ...
Stigma and Exclusion to Rights and Dignity: a Human Rights Approach to Poverty
On 5 November 2013, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and ...
Lessons from the South African Constitutional Court: a duty of care for police in England and Wales?
Last month at the inquest of Rachael Slack, a 38 year-old woman stabbed to death by her ex-partner, the jury ruled ...
European Court of Human Rights Says Dismissal of HIV-positive Employee is Incompatible with the Convention
In the case of I.B. v. Greece, the European Court of Human Rights held that the dismissal of an HIV-positive ...
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