human-rights

Drishti Bhandari, Trinity Institute of Professional Studies, GGSIPU ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of technology and the expansion of digital infrastructure have transformed various sectors, including communication, governance, healthcare, and business. While technological developments have created numerous opportunities, they have also raised serious concerns regarding the protection of human ri…

Medha Raj, Amity Law School, Patna, Amity University ABSTRACT Workplace sexual harassment is a flagrant affront to the freedom, equality, human dignity, and rights of women that are enshrined in the Indian Constitution. It poses a threat to women's mental and physical health as well as their capacity to fully engage in the workforce and the economy. Patriarchal societal dynamics, institutional si…

Ajay Jatav, National Law University, Delhi ABSTRACT This article examines comprehensive and criticality of the harm principle as reconceived by A.P. Simester and Andreas von Hirsch in their seminal work, Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs: On the Principles of Criminalisation (2011). Moving beyond John Stuart Mill's foundational but under-specified formulation, Simester and von Hirsch erect a normatively …

Sathishkumar V, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai ABSTRACT The constitutional recognition of LGBTQA+ rights in India represents a significant development in the evolution of constitutional democracy, equality jurisprudence, and the protection of fundamental rights. For many years, individuals belonging to sexual and gender minority communities faced discrimination, exclusion, and cr…

Musicians and production team understood to be facing same punishment after livestream of patriotic song The Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight members of a production team, including musicians, have been reportedly sentenced to 74 lashes for performing in a concert livestreamed on Ahmadi’s YouTube channel in 2024. According to court documents, the criminal court of Qom province sentenced t…

In Season 2, Episode 16 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by Daniel McLaughlin, an international lawyer and Legal Director of the Centre for Justice and Accountability (CJA), a California-based legal nonprofit working on behalf of victims of torture and other atrocity crimes. Daniel and CJA are leading a civil suit in San Diego against a Delaware-registered PMC, Spear Oper…

Daryl McLune was 16 when he was held for 23 hours on suspicion of attempting to murder his mother after she tried to take her own life A teenager who was wrongly arrested for the attempted murder of his mother minutes after she had tried to kill herself has won a race discrimination claim against the Metropolitan police. A jury found that the Met discriminated against Daryl McLune, who was 16 at …

Document backed by other Caribbean leaders emphasises harm done to women by ‘gravest crime against humanity’ Barbados’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, has announced a new manifesto from Caribbean leaders asserting the “moral, ethical and legal case” for reparations over damage caused by hundreds of years of enslavement. Mottley was speaking at a “historic” conference in Ghana to advance the push fo…

[Matthew Gillett is the Chair of the Platform of Independence Experts on Refugee Rights, a member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and a Senior Lecturer at Essex Law School (UK)] Introduction This year we commemorate 75 years since the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. The 1951 Refugee Convention and its...

Ahead of an upcoming hearing on 19 June during which the Tunis appeals court will re-examine the conviction of Saadia Mosbah, a prominent Tunisian Black human rights defender, and five of her colleagues from the anti-racist organization Mnemty, based on unfounded financial criminal charges stemming from their human rights work, Amnesty International’s North Africa researcher Safia Rayan said: “Th…

Images show Israeli military using six companies’ bulldozers and excavators to demolish south Lebanon villages Human rights experts have alleged that six multinational construction equipment conglomerates may be aiding and abetting war crimes by supplying excavators and bulldozers to Israel, after photos and videos showed the Israeli military using their equipment to demolish villages in south Le…

[Karolína Babická is a Senior Legal Adviser with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Rosa Tibbetts is a Legal Intern with the ICJ. Stavros Papageorgopoulos is a Senior Legal Officer with the European Council on Refugees and Exiles.] Across Europe, some political actors are nowadays questioning the ability of the international legal order, including instruments such as the 1951 Refugee.…

Attorney Federico Sayre represented victims of police brutality, including Rodney King, working in both Los Angeles and his home base of Orange County.

[Liliana Lyra Jubilut and James Milner are Co-Chairs of the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network from the Global Compact on Refugees] The global refugee regime is experiencing two relevant 75th anniversaries: first of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) last year; and, second, of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees in July 2026....

Wilber Urbina Garcia was at a routine ICE check-in when he was taken away. He and his family had applied for asylum after leaving Nicaragua in 2022.

People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical care. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR.

Subham Kumar Sahu, PhD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi ABSTRACT The law of treaties is founded upon the principle of state consent. Reservations constitute one of the principal mechanisms through which states reconcile their sovereign interests with participation in multilateral treaty regimes. While reservations have traditionally facilitated broader participation in internationa…

[Guy S. Goodwin-Gill is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice and Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Jane McAdam is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Law at the Kaldor C…

Joe Gow Hangs in Legal Limbo Josh Moody Wed, 06/17/2026 - 03:00 AM Fired for making pornography, Joe Gow is locked in a lengthy legal battle with the Universities of Wisconsin system, which he accused of violating his free speech rights. Byline(s) Josh Moody

Heads of state and participants from more than 80 countries at three-day event in Accra to pursue actionable commitments to reconciliation and restitution Ghana is hosting a conference to advance the continent’s push for reparatory justice after the adoption of the landmark United Nations (UN) resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. Heads o…