Delhi Chokes in Hazardous Air: A Human Rights Emergency
Year after year, the capital city of India chokes in an Air Quality Index (“AQI”) that exceeds levels deemed not just unhealthy but outright hazardous. This month, according to the...
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Climate Change and the Erosion of Children’s Rights in Bangladesh
In 2023, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued General Comment No. 26, recognising climate change and environmental degradation as urgent and systemic threats to children’s rights....
Saving Time, Saving Lives: The Golden Hour as a Constitutional Guarantee in India
In trauma medicine, the “golden hour” is the first sixty minutes after a serious injury—the period when rapid intervention can make the difference between life and death. Countries have built...
IACtHR Recognises the ‘Right to Care’: What it Means and Why it Matters for Women’s Human Rights
In a historic decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) responding to a request from Argentina, recognised the right to care as an autonomous and enforceable human right, identifying...
Pushing forward and ahead to safeguard SRHR Rights!: Strategic litigation in the face of anti-rights backlash in Africa
Strategic litigation in Africa has emerged as a powerful catalyst for advancing and protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), by utilizing individual cases to promote the clarification, respect,...
Unearthing Justice: The Human Rights and Environmental Toll of Mining in Ghana
Ghana, Africa’s biggest gold-producing country and the world’s sixth biggest, relies heavily on mining for its economic growth. The sector contributes significantly to GDP, jobs, and foreign exchange, with a...
Can’t Fathers Feed their Babies? Critiquing the Indian Supreme Court’s order on gendered infant-care in public
In February 2025, the Supreme Court of India passed a landmark order in Maatr Sparsh, An Initiative by Avyaan Foundation v. Union of India, acknowledging the intertwined legal rights of...
The Global Gag Rule as a Human Rights Crisis: Restricting Autonomy and Healthcare Access
In January 2025, the newly inaugurated Trump administration reaffirmed and broadened the so-called Global Gag Rule (GGR), a policy preventing foreign NGOs receiving US funding from providing or even discussing...
United States Must Formally Apologize to the Republic of Marshall Islands
Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, causing generations of health, environmental, and cultural damage to the Marshallese people. As a result...
Gender-Affirming Care on the Chopping Block: What Tennessee’s Healthcare Ban Means for Trans Youth in America
The United States is at a critical juncture in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, as it confronts the balance between individual rights, state authority, and societal norms. On December 4,...
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...
Green Reparations at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The La Oroya Judgment
The La Oroya judgment, delivered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) on 27 November 2023, but only published late March 2024, constitutes an important legal first in the...
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