(image downloaded from https://pixabay.com/illustrations/league-of-legends-soraka-janna-2808111/ ) TW: misogyny, sexual violence A watershed moment for the gaming industry was witnessed during a 2014 hashtag campaign. The #GamerGate movement was a war against feminism in video games. It included a deluge of rape threats, sexual harassment, and sexist remarks. The movement was about maintaining the game's purity by preventing the influx of social issues like inequality and s

The UK government signed the Istanbul Convention eight years ago, but has not yet ratified it. Using the government’s own reports on progress towards ratification, the post explains key areas in which the government is still not compliant with the Convention. The forthcoming Domestic Abuse Bill should bring the UK into compliance with Article 44, which relates to extra-territorial jurisdiction. However, the issue of support for migrant women leaves the UK still in non-compl

The article focuses on the significance of the judgement in light of the present day position of the LGBTQ community in the US. it discusses the main issues for consideration before the court, the reasoning applied by the court in giving this decision and the relevance of dissenting opinions

The 1.7 million homeless people in India have been disproportionately affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The reported lack of emergency relief provisions for shelter, food, water, sanitation, and essential medical services have led to heightened social insecurity as well as the corrosion of the fundamental human right to safe and adequate housing. There has been transgression by the Indian government of domestic judicial rulings and International Human Rights obligation

Article 14 requires that all of the rights and freedoms must be protected and applied without discrimination. Lockdown has contributed to increased reporting of domestic abuse, mental health disorders, and limited access to relevant services. The state has not introduced sufficient safeguards to protect individuals with mental health disorders or women to escape an indirect discrimination infringement of Article 14.

The policy of banning pregnant girls and adolescent mothers from schooling, or from returning to schools even after pregnancy in Tanzania finds place in the Education (Expulsion and Exclusion of Pupils from Schools) Regulations, 2002; and has continued since 1961. In addition to the ban, it entails the imposition of intrusive, routinely forced pregnancy testing on girls to continue with disciplinary actions and expulsions, putting an end to their education.

COVID19 cost a lot of people, a lot of things except their fundamental human rights. Urbane citizens have had no telling crises for the procurement of grain and food, rather India has seen a surge in tendencies to overstock rations in middle-class and upper-class households. India, in stark contrast has seen the migrant workers’ human rights in the blues. Grim scenes of apathetic conditions, lack of basic resources and no shelter have been etched in the conscience of a grievi

In a chilling exemplification of a repressive regime, Egyptian security forces under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi have been accused of arbitrarily arresting and torturing children aged as young as 12. A report documented by Human Rights Watch (HRW) underscores that prosecutors and judges have exacerbated these abuses through due process violations and unfair trials. The unnerving account details the use of varied modus operandi for torture. To enlist a few: seven children w

The internet shutdown imposed in the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir on 5th August, 2019, which entered its 200th day beginning this March, is now officially the longest shutdown imposed in any democracy all over the world. It was enforced after the Parliament read down Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which previously granted autonomy to the state. While the Government of India staunchly believes that the blockade is necessary to curb unrest, it has led to grave

On August 5, 2019 the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, imposed Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in Kashmir, suspending and imposing a blanket ban on mobile, broadband internet, cable TV services citing “maintenance of law and order” issues. This was followed by the abrogation of Article 370 that granted special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The state suspended the internet in the valley for almost six months until the Supreme Court ruling in Anuradha B

India is a nation fuelled by its belief in God. Many gap year students have ‘found themselves’ amongst the temples, mosques and churches that litter its every street – the land of Gandhian pacifism and so-called secularism. It is ironic then that every year, thousands of people shed blood in the name of religious violence. This violence finds its rhetoric in the concept of ‘religious rights’ and its victims mostly in minority religious groups.

Barefoot Lawyer is a remarkable memoir by Chen Guangcheng, a blind civil rights activist from Dongshigu in Northeast China. Having lost his eyesight even before the age of one, Guangcheng battled discrimination against the handicapped, finding himself opportunities for education after being refused from the local village school.

When will the international community’s response to the persecution of the Uighurs in Xinjiang become proportional to the severity of the crimes that China has been accused of committing?