International Legal Responsibilities of Medical Transplantation Institutions
Image description: Surgeons and nurses pictured in an operating theatre during a procedure Organ trafficking, forced organ harvesting and unethical organ transplantation are global issues. A worldwide shortage of organs...
Gender Recognition With a Price: Q & Tse Henry Edward v Commissioner of Registration
Image description: A group of people walking under a rainbow flag. The Hong Kong Court of Appeal recently delivered a judgment reaffirming full sex reassignment surgery (“SRS”) as a prerequisite...
A Lacuna in the Kenyan Penal Code Provisions on Abortion
Image description: Posters on street advertising abortion clinics. In recent years, the Kenyan judiciary has made significant strides in reforming abortion law in Kenya. On 24 March 2022, the High...
Discrimination in Indian Blood Donation Policy
Image description: People in India march at a gay pride rally with rainbow balloons and flags. India famously decriminalised homosexuality (s 377 of the Indian Penal Code) in the historic...
Dobbs and Dignity
Image description: A board with the sign ‘Bans Off Our Bodies”. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v Jackson...
Reproductive rights in Chile’s new constitution: lessons from defective contraceptive litigation
Image Description: Six women holding a banner which says ‘For the Autonomy and Human Rights of Women’ in Spanish. In the third quarter of 2020, Miles Chile identified more than...
Derechos reproductivos en la nueva constitución de Chile: lecciones a partir del litigio de los anticonceptivos defectuosos
En el tercer trimestre de 2020, Miles Chile identificó más de 200 casos de mujeres que habían recibido anticonceptivos defectuosos en el sistema de salud pública del país y quedaron...
The Slow Revival of Working Conditions Rights: Safe and Healthy Working Conditions to be Included in the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work?
The International Labour Conference is debating the inclusion of safe and healthy working conditions in the ILO fundamental principles and rights at work. In Geneva, a discussion is taking place...
UK Government Bans Hymenoplasty
Image description: A poster reading ‘My body, my rights’. With the rising concern of young girls and women being subjected to virginity testing and hymen reconstruction surgery, the British government...
Mumtaz Bibi v Qasim: Islamabad High Court’s Landmark Judgment on Child Marriage
Image description: Children in a village in Sindh Pakistan. As per a recent UNICEF report, Pakistan is home to nearly 19 million child brides: one in three girls in Pakistan...
Visas for Surrogates: Acknowledging Familial Bonds between Surrogates, Intended Parents, and Children
Image Description: Surrogate parents attending the birth of the child in the hospital with the gestational mother. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought into focus the vulnerabilities of surrogates gestating...
The Fundamental Right to Abortion in Colombia
Image description: Participants at a ‘pro-choice’ protest in the city centre during the decision of the Constitutional Court. | Photo credit: Viviana Bohórquez Monsalve Colombia´s Constitutional Court recent Decision C-055...
