The Unseen Wounds: Psychological Injury and the Legal Fight Against Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh
The first-ever Bangladesh law against enforced disappearance, the Enforced Disappearance Prevention and Redress Ordinance 2025 lapsed in April 2026, following the election of the country’s new parliament. It passed after...
Making Apartheid Irreversible: Israel’s Death Penalty Statutes and Third State Obligations
When the Israeli Knesset voted to approve the Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill on 30 March 2026, it made irreversible through state-administered killing what the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
The Persistence of Witch Hunting in India: A Crisis of Legal Enforcement and State Responsibility
In July 2025, a mob in Bihar’s Purnea district hacked to death and burned five members of a Scheduled Tribe family, including three women, on accusations of witchcraft. The incident...
Policing the Womb: The Re-Criminalisation of Abortion in Kenya
Every day in Kenya, approximately seven women die from unsafe abortions. This statistic represents a preventable tragedy driven by a legal environment where the 1963 Penal Code remains in direct...
The ‘Saha’ Guidelines: India’s Mental Health Leap as a Constitutional Right
Mental health has been undermined in the Indian human rights discourse, but the Supreme Court of India’s 2025 ruling in Sukdeb Saha v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. (2025)...
Access Denied: Assessing Thailand’s Legal Obligations to Displaced Persons from Prey Chan and Chouk Chey (Ban Nong Ya Kaeo) Under International Humanitarian Law
There are reports of forced displacements at the disputed Thai-Cambodian border areas. The villages of Prey Chan and Chouk Chey (Ban Nong Ya Kaeo in Thai sources) have seen Cambodian...
Amending Article 319 of Senegal’s 1965 Penal Code Violates the Human Right to Health
On 11th March 2026, Senegal passed a bill doubling the punishment enshrined in the queerphobic provision Article 319 of the 1965 Penal Code from a maximum imprisonment of five years...
The Right to Die with Dignity: Indian Supreme Court in Harish Rana v. Union of India
On March 11, 2026, the Supreme Court of India, in Harish Rana v. Union of India, allowed the withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) from a man who...
The Lidho Judgment: Where Does Implementation Stand?
On 5 September 2023, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights delivered its first-ever environmental ruling. In Ligue Ivorienne des droits de l’homme (LIDHO) and others v. Republic of...
The Shadow of ‘Honour’: Persistent Violence and the Imperative of Human Rights in South Asia
The fragility of the right to life in Pakistan was starkly highlighted on July 21, 2025, when Pakistani authorities reported the arrest of 11 individuals in connection with the ‘honour...
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...
Transgender Rights in Employment after Jane Kaushik v. Union of India: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Ruling
In October 2025, in Jane Kaushik v Union of India, the Indian Supreme Court confronted a form of exclusion that has become routine rather than exceptional. A transgender teacher was...
