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...
LGBTQ Liberty After the Fall of Roe v Wade
Image Description: Protests in California for marriage equality. Many people are carrying boards saying “we all deserve the freedom to marry”. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution...
Human Rights of High-Risk Offenders in Australian Prisons
Image description: A hand holding the bars of a prison cell. In the recent case of Hamzy v Commissioner of Corrective Services NSW [2022] NSWCA 16, the New South Wales...
LGBTQ+ Rights as Administrative Law? Tang Seng Kee v. Attorney-General
Image description: Protesters at Singapore holding boards reading “LGBT Rights are Human Rights”, “Stop Invisibilising Us”, and “Decriminalise LGBT People”. On 28 February 2022, the Singapore Court of Appeal handed...
A Critique of the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022
Image description: A picture of the Constitution of India. Underneath the words ‘Constitution of India’ is the picture of the State Emblem of India. In the State Emblem of India,...
Digital Disinformation in India: An Attack on Mental Autonomy
Image description: The words ‘fake news’ containing the word ‘propaganda’ inside the letters. Concern is mounting over the increase in disinformation or “fake news” spreading across Indian social media platforms...
Delhi High Court Hears Petitions on Legalisation of Same-Sex Marriage in India
Image description: Wrapped in a gay flag at the Pride Parade, New Delhi. In Navtej Singh Johar v Union of India (2018) the archaic law under Section 377 of the...
Google’s Victory Against Lloyd in UK Supreme Court: The Need for Class Action Legislation
Image description: A building with the sign saying ‘Google’. On 10 November 2021, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom handed down its judgement in the case of Lloyd v...
To Eat or Not to Eat: Analysing the Constitutionality of the Meat Bans in Gujarat
Image description: A person holding an egg against the background of a stack of eggs. Recently, the Municipal Corporation of Ahmedabad (India) banned street vendors from selling meat, fish and...
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...