Digital Control vs. Digital Rights: Critiquing Bangladesh’s Approach to Internet Shutdown
Internet shutdowns obstruct universal access to internet, hindering freedom of expression, the right to information and right to peaceful assembly, economic security, education and health services for the citizens. Nonstop...
National Security Laws from a Common Law Perspective: Insights from the Recent Triumph of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China
The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the “Alliance”) emerged as one of the pioneering pro-democracy entities in Hong Kong, founded amidst the fervour of...
ECOWAS Court Overlooked Nigeria’s Due Diligence Obligations in #ENDSARS Decision
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS Court) delivered an important decision in the Obianuju Catherine Ude & 2 Others v Federal Republic of Nigeria case on July 10,...
The Ahmadiyya in Pakistan: Religious Persecution, Human Rights, and Islam
The Ahmadiyya are a religious minority who suffer persecution in Pakistan and many other Muslim-majority countries. In 2023, for example, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reported that at least...
Mapping the global crackdown on LGBTIQ rights
On 17 May 1990, the World Health Organisation (WHO) removed homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), thereby taking an important first step towards addressing and removing the stigma...
A Game of Judicial Tennis: The Supreme Court in Mercer
The Supreme Court has once again considered the proper scope of sections 3 and 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), this time in relation to an employer’s response...
Extremist Measures: The UK Government Further Obstructs the Right to Protest
On March 1, UK Prime Minister Sunak delivered a divisive impromptu speech, much of which was spent demonising groups calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. He claimed that protests have...
The License to Jeopardise: The LGBTQ Rights ‘Movement’ in Russia
The Supreme Court of Russia, on 30 November 2023, ruled against the ‘international LGBTQ movement’, declaring it an ‘extremist organisation’ and allowing the Russian government to take steps to curb...
Non-Refoulement of Uyghur Prisoners in India
Although India is not party to the 1951 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Refugees, this does not preclude it from its Principle of Non-Refoulement, or prohibition of refoulement,...
Democratic Descent in Niger: From Hope to Uncertainty
In the first peaceful democratic transition of power since the independence of Niger, Mohammed Bazoum was elected President by constitutional elections in 2021. Just two years later he was overthrown...
The Coronation, the Public Order Act 2023 and ‘Free Speech’
In recent years, a lot has been written about ‘the right to protest’ and ‘the right to free speech’ in the UK. Yet neither phrase appears in the latest Public...
Gender-based Violence, LGBTQIA+ Rights, and Christian Values in Zambia
Since 2019 the Sistah Sistah Foundation (SSF) has marched in protest of sexual and gender-based violence in Zambia. Zambia’s national Gender Based Violence (GBV) statistics allege that a total of...
