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Women in Constitutions – Podcast Series

Women in Constitutions – Podcast Series

https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Compilation-Women-in-Constitution.mp4 Virtually all constitutions guarantee women’s right to equality, yet, there is a rise in backlash against legal, political, economic, social and cultural efforts to achieve women’s equality. This podcast...
Women in Constitutions – The US Constitution with Julie Suk

Women in Constitutions – The US Constitution with Julie Suk

Oxford Human Rights Hub · Women in Constitutions – The US Constitution with Julie Suk Virtually all constitutions guarantee women’s right to equality, yet, there is a rise in backlash...
Responsabilidad Corporativa por Violaciones de Derechos Humanos Internacionales en las Cortes de los Estados Unidos: El Litigio de Chiquita Marcas

Responsabilidad Corporativa por Violaciones de Derechos Humanos Internacionales en las Cortes de los Estados Unidos: El Litigio de Chiquita Marcas

El 10 de junio de 2024, el innovador juicio federal estadounidense, Chiquita Marcas Internacional, Inc., Litigio por el Estatuto de Agravio para Extranjeros y Litigio Derivativo de Accionistas, declaró a...
Corporate Accountability for International Human Rights Violations in US Courts: The Chiquita Brands Litigation

Corporate Accountability for International Human Rights Violations in US Courts: The Chiquita Brands Litigation

On 10 June 2024, the groundbreaking US federal trial, Chiquita Brands International, Inc., Alien Tort Statute and Shareholders Derivative Litigation, found the banana corporation guilty of the deaths of eight...
Mapping the global crackdown on LGBTIQ rights

Mapping the global crackdown on LGBTIQ rights

On 17 May 1990, the World Health Organisation (WHO) removed homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), thereby taking an important first step towards addressing and removing the stigma...
Illegal Human Trafficking Profits Skyrocket

Illegal Human Trafficking Profits Skyrocket

Human trafficking is big business. The United Nations (UN) just released an updated report that reveals traffickers are raking in record illegal profits. Meanwhile, the inherently valuable people whom traffickers...
One year on, US journalist Evan Gershkovich remains a state hostage in Russia

One year on, US journalist Evan Gershkovich remains a state hostage in Russia

For the past twelve months, US journalist Evan Gershkovich, a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, has been held in a Moscow prison awaiting trial. Arrested by security services on...
Resisting the Legal Assault on Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Students

Resisting the Legal Assault on Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Students

Since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v Hodges striking down same-sex marriage bans across the United States, conservative States and localities—perhaps motivated by the politics of resentment stemming...
Meta’s Neutrality Crisis and Dangerous Organisations Policy

Meta’s Neutrality Crisis and Dangerous Organisations Policy

Meta is accused of “systemic and global” censorship in a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report for particularly targeting pro-Palestinian voices on Facebook and Instagram. The report outlines thousands of...
Alabama’s Manifest Injustice and the Inhumanity of Execution by Nitrogen Gas Inhalation

Alabama’s Manifest Injustice and the Inhumanity of Execution by Nitrogen Gas Inhalation

On 25 January Alabama intends to be the first US state to use nitrogen gas inhalation as an execution method. Despite a manifestly unjust trial, the presence of convincing science...
Federated Learning: A Possible Panacea for Data Privacy in the Healthcare Sector

Federated Learning: A Possible Panacea for Data Privacy in the Healthcare Sector

The significance of data privacy is increasingly prominent on a global scale. There are laws in many jurisdictions governing data, to ensure reduction in unnecessary data sharing and to uphold...
Silencing the Indigenous Voice: How Australians Have Failed Their Own People Part II

Silencing the Indigenous Voice: How Australians Have Failed Their Own People Part II

The first part of this blog series addressed the background to the referendum and the Constitution of Australia, including how it derives from racially discriminatory beliefs which would later be...

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