Contaminated Supply Chains and Clean Energy in China
Image description: A picture of solar panels in a field, against the backdrop of mountains. As China is a substantial producer of solar energy today, recent allegations of forced labor...
The Global Gag Rule Violates Human Rights, We Need a Permanent Solution
The Global Gag Rule (GGR or Mexico City Policy) is a regressive, harmful policy that violates the human rights of women, girls, and people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity...
Reformists Overtook US Political Discourse On Ending Police Violence And Changed Nothing
Over a year ago, in the midst of the uprisings that followed the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, myself and other activists, organisers and prison industrial complex abolitionists...
Proposed Voter ID Reforms in the UK: The Dangers of ‘Fraud’ Based Regulation
The UK government’s Election Bill containing controversial Voter ID provisions is progressing with haste through parliament this month, despite significant alarm over its potential impact. Whilst the government claims the...
Valuable or Viable: Reproductive Justice and the Texas Abortion Ban
The Supreme Court’s refusal to stop Texas’ unconstitutional six-week abortion ban endangers the lives people with the capacity for pregnancy across the country. Texas’ S.B. 8 not only prohibits the...
The Great Dissent: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Shelby County v. Holder
Dissents speak to a future age. … [T]he greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that...
The ‘Death to Asylum’ Rule: United States’ Evisceration of Women’s Rights under the Refugee Convention
The United States’ (‘US’) new Rule on processing asylum applications, which was to take effect from 10 January 2021, has been temporarily halted by a US District Judge on the...