Women’s Rights: A Look Back at Emily Wilding Davison’s Leadership
Editor’s Note: OxHRH is marking the recent June 8 centenary of Emily Wilding Davison’s passing with this guest blog from the co-curators of LSE’s special exhibition dedicated to her role...
Women's Rights: A Look Back at Emily Wilding Davison's Leadership
Editor’s Note: OxHRH is marking the recent June 8 centenary of Emily Wilding Davison’s passing with this guest blog from the co-curators of LSE’s special exhibition dedicated to her role...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Constitution-Making and Voter Education in Zimbabwe
By Obert Hodzi Over the past decade, Zimbabwe has been characterised by political turmoil and economic meltdown that resulted in dollarization and abandonment of the country’s currency in 2008. After...
Prisoner Voting and the Rule of Law: The Irony of Non-Compliance
By John Hirst – Prisoners’ voting rights remain a vexed issue in the United Kingdom. Following the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decision in Hirst v UK (No 2),the...
Prisoners’ Voting Rights: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
If ‘suffrage is the pivotal right’, then it is only fitting that the issue of prisoners’ voting rights has become the turning point of the UK government’s approach to the...
Prisoners' Voting Rights: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
If ‘suffrage is the pivotal right’, then it is only fitting that the issue of prisoners’ voting rights has become the turning point of the UK government’s approach to the...
SCOPPOLA v. ITALY (No. 3): A Step Backwards
In her recent post, Natasha Holcroft-Emmess critiques the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber (GC) judgment in Scoppola (no. 3); she rightly notes that the GC has taken a...
Scoppola v Italy (No. 3): Getting Prisoner Voting Right?
In Scoppola v Italy (No. 3) (Application no. 126/05, 22 May 2012) the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights once again engaged with the vexed issue of...
