Right to a Better World: Contraception
In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used to help ensure each woman’s and adolescent’s right to make...
Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Right to a Better World: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used to help ensure every woman’s and adolescent’s right to not...
Right to a Better World: Violence Against Women
In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used to help build a world in which women and girls...
Reproductive Rights and Democracy in Poland
On 22 October 2020, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal held it was unconstitutional for a women to access abortion in cases where there was ‘a medical indication that there existed a...
Forced hysterectomies in detention: Immediate and long-term responses to ICE abuse needed
On September 14, 2020, Project South and whistleblower Dawn Pooten filed a complaint with the US Department of Homeland Security alleging forced hysterectomies at an Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC),...
Black Women are Leading the Largest Social Movement in U.S. History—and Their Lives Matter Too
Two months after George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, protests continue across the United States (U.S.). From large urban cities to small rural towns,...
Human Rights Day 2019: Honouring Youth and Protecting Their Rights
On 10 December 2019, we commemorate Human Rights Day, 71 years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the...
Blood, Taxes, and Equality
The Colombian Constitutional Court has recently delivered two groundbreaking decisions. One struck down taxes on tampons and sanitary pads, while the other ordered the city of Bogota to create a...
Legal Gaps and Inconsistencies in India’s Commercial Surrogacy Ban
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, which was laid on the tables of both Houses in August 2017, no longer allows non-Indians to commission surrogacy in India. Only infertile Indian couples...
Patchy Implementation of the Law is Failing India’s Girls
India is suffering from a supposedly ancient yet timely problem. In violation of the law and Constitution, India’s girls are vanishing. It has been reported by government officials that more...
The Sabarimala Temple Ban: An ‘Untouchable’ Rule
On 1st August, 2018, the Supreme Court of India concluded its hearing on a crucial matter regarding the Sabrimala Temple in the State of Kerala. The case deals with the...
Landmark judgment on PSPO Regime has Significant Repercussions for Freedom of Expression
On 2 July 2018, the High Court handed down judgment in Dulgheriu v London Boroughof Ealing [2018] EWHC 1667 (Admin). The case provides crucial insight into the ever lowering threshold...
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