The Violence of Care: Obstetric Violence during COVID-19
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Obstetric Violence (OV) is a ...
United Nations
Toward an Empowering Disability Discourse in the Justice System: The Indian Supreme Court’s Call to Action
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One of the many ...
Discredit to the Turkish Government Over Social and Political Inequalities
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The unlimited inequality, ...
Christina Voigt on ecocide
UN Council Resolution on Human Right to Healthy Environment: Implications for US Grassroots-Led ‘Non-Reformist Reforms’
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In a long-awaited ...
Challenging Regression in Climate Commitments: Doctrine of ‘Non-Retrogression’ to the Rescue?
Amidst the wave of new climate commitments or nationally determined contributions (NDCs) from Parties to the Paris ...
Time to Demystify Equal Pay and Gender Pay Gaps
More than two decades ago, one of my colleagues, a well-respected lawyer, declared with conviction that in ...
Emerging from the COVID 19 Pandemic: What role for the Forgotten Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions in the ICESCR?
As the world confronts the devastating impact of the COVID pandemic it must tackle the thorny related problems of ...
Between Cross-Border Obligations and Domestic Remedies: The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s decision on Sacchi v Argentina (Part 2)
This is the second post evaluating Sacchi v Argentina. The first post in this series can be found here. A longer ...
Between Cross-Border Obligations and Domestic Remedies: The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s decision on Sacchi v Argentina (Part 1)
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has delivered its long-awaited admissibility decision on Sacchi et al ...
Together for Equality: Why and How a Comprehensive Approach to Tackling Discrimination Works
For almost fifteen years, the Equal Rights Trust has worked to support the adoption of comprehensive equality laws ...
Using UN Frameworks to Further Racial Justice within Britain
In 2015, the United Nations promulgated an International Decade for people of African descent. The UN explained ...
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