The Need to Revisit Indian Consent Paradigms for the Storage and Use of Digitalized Biological Data
The Indian Biological Data Center, established in 2022, is India’s first life sciences data repository. The IndiGen Programme aimed to sequence the genomic data of 1,000 individuals in India and...
The Missing Pieces: Living Organ Donation and Personal Autonomy in Germany
Non-directed living organ donation remains prohibited in Germany, with concerning implications for individual autonomy as well as potentially fatal consequences for those awaiting organ donation. About 8,500 people are currently...
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act and its Human Rights Limitations
At the end of 2022, the Council of the European Union adopted its common position or ‘general approach’ to the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), paving the way for...
Uganda’s Draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023
After an unsuccessful attempt to propagate the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014, the Ugandan Parliament yet again decided to reintroduce the Bill in March 2023. The Ugandan Parliament, led by...
India’s Latest Draft Bill on Data Protection: Exemption Clause and Related Privacy Concerns
Image description: a laptop with a lock on the screen. The government of India recently released the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (DDPB), hoping to finally give the...
FemTech Apps’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: A Rights-Perspective on Privacy
Image description: a “smart-watch” FemTech applications [FemTech apps] are committed to the technology-driven enhancement of women’s [users] autonomy in the enjoyment of rights to sexual and reproductive health [SRH Rights]...
Another ‘Green Reading’ of Article 8 of the ECHR in Pavlov & Others v Russia
Image description: Large industrial mining vehicle pictured in crater of quarry in Russia The recent case Pavlov & Others v Russia saw the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), once...
Electronic Workplace Monitoring and Human Rights: The Limits to Ontario’s New Algorithmic Monitoring Legislation
Image Description: A robot looking at coding/programming algorithm. In early October 2022, Ontario became the first Canadian province to expressly regulate algorithmic monitoring at work. In terms of recent amendments...
The Tension between Human Rights, Freedom of Dress and Public Morality
Regulations on dress are controversial in many jurisdictions, poised at the intersection between human rights and public morality. In countries where wearing particular attire is considered a threat to religious...
Surrogacy in India: The Need for Inclusive Laws
Image description: Seven women sit on a panel in front of a banner entitled “National Consultation on Surrogacy Issues” in New Delhi, India Recently, a petition challenging surrogacy laws in...
Achieving Disability Justice After Dobbs
Image description: Abortion badges of different colours, with slogans reading ‘March for abortion rights’ and ‘Women’s right to choose’. The fragility of reproductive rights in the United States has never...
Dobbs Employs Narrow Framing to Narrow Fundamental Rights
Image description: A picture of the front entrance of the US Supreme Court building, which has ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ carved into it. Dobbs holds that the Fourteenth Amendment does...
