Women’s Suffrage in Chile
...impacted by these kinds of reforms. At the local level, for example, only 11.9 per cent of Mayors elected in 2016 were women. In addition, after Sebastian Piñera’s new right-wing...
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Legalization of Abortion on Three Grounds in Chile
...last week’s election of Sebastián Piñera. Upon the passage of the bill, a group of congresspersons and senators challenged the legislation as unconstitutional invoking Chile’s constitutional article 19: “The law...
The Unified Screening Mechanism: Hong Kong to Assess Refugee Claims Alongside Torture Claims
...in the case of C v the Director of Immigration FACV 18-20/2011 (see previous post by Sebastian Ko here). The USM officially commenced on 3 March 2014 and the Immigration...
Public Consultation on the Overhaul of Hong Kong Anti-Discrimination Laws
On 7 October 2014, the Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission (“EOC”) will conclude its inaugural review of the anti-discrimination legislation (the “Consultation”) in the Special Administrative Region of China (the...
Kong Yunming v The Director of Social Welfare: Constitutional protection of social welfare rights in Hong Kong
On 17 December 2013, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong unanimously allowed the appeal of Madam Kong in Kong Yunming v The Director of Social Welfare (Kong). Kong,...
Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ruled on refugee law gateway issue
...assume its RSD responsibility. Sebastian Ko is currently reading for the BCL at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, and is a volunteer attorney caseworker for the Hong Kong Refugee...
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