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Human rights Tag

18 Aug

[Timothy Fish Hodgson is a senior legal adviser for ESC Rights at the International Commission of Jurists (Africa). Valentin Büchi is a legal intern with the International Commission of Jurists (Africa).] On 23 April 2025, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa (SCA) handed down a judgment in which it found that an eviction order against waste reclaimers had to fully consider...

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11 Aug

[Matin Amiri holds a Masters in international law from Allameh Tabataba'i University of Tehran] I am writing this post to provide a comprehensive discussion of the newly published Guiding Principles on Sanctions, Business and Human Rights, hereinafter referred to as the Guiding Principles, authored by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures and Human Rights, Professor Alena Douhan. These...

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30 Jul

[Saniamu Ngeywa has a masters of laws (LL.M.) in international human rights law from the University of Groningen, Netherlands] No Laughing Matter Retrogressive times and events have taken Kenya back to an all-too-familiar phase, rendering citizens, funny guys, dissidents, and rights defenders shivering. Social media enthusiasts banter that political positions should have an undisputed requirement that the applicant must be able to...

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29 Jul

[Julie Fraser is an international lawyer from Australia and an academic with The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at Utrecht University.  Dr. Annette Mbogoh is currently a Board member of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority and law lecturer at University of Nairobi. She is a Kenyan social justice practitioner and scholar with over 18 years working experience.] Around the world there is...

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28 Jul

[Thairi Moya Sánchez (PhD) is a full-time professor of public international law at Complutense University of Madrid. Simón Gómez-Guaimara is an adjunct professor of public international law at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas and works as a human rights and international justice consultant.] Since 2007, Nicaragua has descended into a spiral of repression under Daniel Ortega’s rule. Popular discontent culminated in...

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28 Jul

[Sude Kınık is a senior law student at Galatasaray University] Introduction The ECtHR’s landmark judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, (“Klimaseniorinnen”) marks a significant moment in the judicialization of environmental protection through human rights frameworks. A key feature of this judgment is how the Court addressed the “drop in the ocean” argument—a common state defense in climate litigation aiming...

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24 Jul

[Alicia Ely Yamin (X: @AE_Yamin) is a lecturer on law and the director of the Global Health and Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; an adjunct senior lecturer on health policy and management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; a visiting professor of law at the Universidad Torcuato...

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21 Jul

[Dr Carlotta Manz defended her doctoral thesis in international public law in 2024 at the University of Lausanne and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel] In 2025, genetic testing continues to raise pressing legal concerns. For instance, when 23andMe – the company that brought us at-home genetic tests – filed for bankruptcy, attention largely focused on privacy...

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06 Jun

[Emma Neuber is a member of the Samos-based NGO I Have Rights and an LLM candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway] I was running for freedom and came to a prison.An asylum seeker from the Closed Controlled Access Centre on Samos, Greece Detention has become a prevalent response to irregular migration, reflecting the ever-increasing securitisation of migration...

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05 Jun

[Dr Lena Riemer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University working on migration related topics] In early 2025, hundreds of migrants from Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, and beyond found themselves confined in a hotel in Panama City. Desperate notes scrawled on scraps of paper and pressed against windows pleaded for help. These individuals had been removed from the United...

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30 May

[Lisa Reinsberg is the founding executive director of the International Justice Resource Center, a PhD candidate with the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, and a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law] Human rights oversight bodies have rejected an unknown number of complaints because individual complainants used language that was insulting or offensive to...

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30 May

[Yifan Jia is a PhD candidate and visiting lecturer at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London, and a research associate at the Global Governance Centre at Geneva Graduate Institute. John Binns is a partner at BCL Solicitors LLP. He is a specialist in proceeds of crime laws, sanctions, tax investigations, and the regulation of cannabis.] Historically, mechanisms for...

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