CRPD Committee Adopts New General Comment on Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities released its advance unedited version of the General ...
United Nations
Taking the backseat? Strategic utilisation of human rights in the implementation of SDGs
Human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are closely entwined. The text of the Agenda declares ...
Transforming Women’s Lives Through Education
The virtues of education are uncontested. It is a multiplier right, it creates an empowered workforce and ...
Djazia and Bellili v Spain: Eviction and Homelessness under the OP-ICESCR
When the private housing sector fails the State must use its resources to provide alternative housing, according ...
International Law, Right to Privacy and Marital Rape in India
In an order dated 6/11/2017, the High Court of Gujarat described marital rape as “a disgraceful offence that has ...
Law and Disability: Why Getting Disability Law on the University’s Curriculum Matters to Disability Rights
Today marks an important moment for the foregrounding of the rights of people with disabilities at Oxford. It is ...
Law and Disability: An Introduction to the Social Model of Disability
“To pay attention to the words we use is not to be “politically correct” but to struggle for a language which ...
When The Law is Not Enough: International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM
On February 6, UN International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), the international ...
Why Artificial Intelligence is Already a Human Rights Issue
Last month, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Professor Philip Alston released a ...
The Global Compact on Refugees: A Step Towards Mending a Broken System
In September 2016, the General Assembly convened the first-ever high level summit on refugees and migrants. Heads ...
The Soviet Legacy and Current Human Rights Debates
A recent post by Steven Jensen has suggested that a model of ‘generations of rights’ – civil and political rights; ...
Understanding Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Collective or Individual?
Earlier this month, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Mexico in an attempt to build upon the ...
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