Right to Freedom of Religion

Karnataka Hijab Ban Part 1: An Unveiling

Karnataka Hijab Ban Part 1: An Unveiling

This is a 3-part blog on the Hijab ban case in India. Part 1 traces the journey of the Hijab ban order, from the first incident in Udupi to the...
Protests in Iran and Human Rights

Protests in Iran and Human Rights

Oxford Human Rights Hub · Protests in Iran and Human Rights In this episode, we spoke to Dr. Saeed Bagheri, lecturer of International Law at the University of Reading about...
Blasphemy, Human Rights, the Intervention of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the Mansha Masih Case

Blasphemy, Human Rights, the Intervention of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the Mansha Masih Case

Image Description: A photograph of an open Bible with focus on a verse from the Gospel of John. A Christian Cross Necklace is placed on the page. Pakistan has a...
Rohingya Refugees at Risk of Re-Persecution in India

Rohingya Refugees at Risk of Re-Persecution in India

Image description: Group of Rohingya adults and children sit on the ground beneath a makeshift shelter Forced deportation in the face of imminent threat of persecution violates the inalienable right...
Kenyan Ministry of Education Declares that ‘Religious Beliefs Can Enter into Schools’

Kenyan Ministry of Education Declares that ‘Religious Beliefs Can Enter into Schools’

Image description: Kenyan primary school students sit on chairs and on the floor in a basic dirt-floor classroom taking lessons. On 4 March 2022 a letter from the Kenyan Ministry...
Pavez v. Chile: Freedom of Religion in Public Education

Pavez v. Chile: Freedom of Religion in Public Education

Image description: A classroom, where many students are seated as their desks and one student is in the front with their teacher. In Sandra Pavez v. Chile, the Inter-American Court...
Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez on the Burkini Judgment

Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez on the Burkini Judgment

TRANSCRIPT: Professor Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez on the Burkini Judgment Daniil Ukhorskiy (0:03) On the 21st of June, the Conseil d’État, France’s highest appellate court for administrative cases, upheld an injunction on...
Israeli Settlements in Occupied Territories: Assessing ‘Continuing Crimes’ Against the Principle of Legality Before the ICC

Israeli Settlements in Occupied Territories: Assessing ‘Continuing Crimes’ Against the Principle of Legality Before the ICC

Image description: Protesters march beneath a banner saying “Freedom for Palestine” On 8 July 2021, a report of the Special Rapporteur on the state of human rights in Palestinian territories...
Dignity of Life and the Rights of Deceased Persons in India amid COVID-19

Dignity of Life and the Rights of Deceased Persons in India amid COVID-19

Image description: A cemetery in India. COVID-19 has claimed many lives. As a result, many bodies of deceased COVID-19 patients were thrown into rivers, pits or onto roads. Such dreadful...
The ‘Crimmigration’ of Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India

The ‘Crimmigration’ of Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India

Image description: Sri Lankan refugees in India. Many of them hold pieces of paper in their hand. India has engaged in the practice of granting temporary asylum to refugees from...
Vaccine Mandates in the United States: Multi-level Actors and Rights in Tension: Federal Government Mandates (Part III)

Vaccine Mandates in the United States: Multi-level Actors and Rights in Tension: Federal Government Mandates (Part III)

Image description: Two COVID vaccine vials. State government vaccine mandates raise complex legal and ethical questions, some of which are discussed in Part II of this series. But these complications...
Vaccine Mandates in the United States: Multi-level Actors and Rights in Tension: State Mandates (Part II)

Vaccine Mandates in the United States: Multi-level Actors and Rights in Tension: State Mandates (Part II)

Image description: A woman with a vaccine at a mass vaccination site. While private employer vaccine mandates have proven somewhat controversial in the United States, the real source of controversy...
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