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...
Vaccine Mandates in the United States: Multi-level Actors and Rights in Tension: Private Employers (Part I)
Image description: A person getting vaccinated. Several states, municipalities, and even private entities in the United States have imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates. But it was not until September 2021 that...
Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations: Legality in the Indian Context
Image description: A child holding up a board reading ‘back to school vaccinations’. There is an older man standing in the background. COVID-19 has brought the world to a stand-still...
Pushing the Bioethical Envelope: Rethinking the Rights of Part-Human Chimeric Embryos
Image description: Different equipment, including test tubes and petri dishes, at a laboratory. On 15 April 2021, a team of scientists from the U.S., China and Spain created the first...
The Global Gag Rule Violates Human Rights, We Need a Permanent Solution
The Global Gag Rule (GGR or Mexico City Policy) is a regressive, harmful policy that violates the human rights of women, girls, and people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity...
Reconceptualizing the Standard of Consent for Stem Cell Research in India
Human stem cell research involves the extraction of clusters of undifferentiated cells, derived from the human embryo, bone marrow, or blood in the umbilical cord, which are capable of multiplying...
The Potential of Bold Remedial Relief to Enforce Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa – Komape v Minister of Basic Education
Komape v Minister of Basic Education concerns the unsafe, undignified sanitation facilities in schools in the Limpopo province of South Africa, which violate a host of learners’ constitutional rights. The...
Recognising ASHA Workers in India: The Need for a Legislative Revamp
Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA workers) play a key role in rural India’s public health infrastructure. Their struggle for employment equality has been long fought, and the pandemic has exacerbated...
The Violation of Human Rights of Women in Mental Healthcare Institutions
Recently, the Supreme Court, while adjudicating upon a plea by Gaurav Bansal, took note of the human rights violations faced by women institutionalised in government-run mental health establishments across India....
Marcus’ 3 Week Isolation Challenge
Marcus Dahl, former Comparative Human Rights BCL Scholar, is participating inOxford’s world-first coronavirus reinfection challenge trial. He is using the funding from participating in this trial to support efforts to...
Shaping the Future of Safe Childbirth
While maternal mortality rates have been decreasing, they have not been decreasing for all types of women. Women in poverty, women with disabilities, young women, women in rural communities and...
The US ‘Snapback Sanctions’ on Iran Tantamount to Crimes Against Humanity
In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term Nuclear Deal on its nuclear programme with the world powers known as the P5+1 – the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany. The...
