Does the African Children’s Rights Charter ‘add value’?
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has more ratifications than the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child...
Is the Committee of the Rights of the Child really protecting children?
The CRC should be protecting children, but it appears that bureaucracy has gotten in the way... One problem with the reporting procedure...
Rights for Surrogate Mothers
UNDER CONSTRUCTION As the law stands, a surrogate mother is the legal mother of the child that they give birth to, even if they are not...
South Africa’s Grootboom and TAC cases 13 years later: what was achieved after all?
South Africa has a history of apartheid in which the civil and socioeconomic rights of the black community were systematically violated....
When are Human Rights real rights?
Jeremy Bentham, the ‘Father of Utilitarianism’, famously said that natural rights are ‘nonsense upon stilts’. He thought that ‘from real...
Does the HRA protect our right to peaceful protest?
Assessing the effectiveness of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) in protecting the right to peaceful protest is a pertinent task in light...
Does the ECtHR protect our privacy? Or are the press free to write whatever they like?
Asserting that the rights of the press to freedom of expression are beneficial for society is easy. Nonetheless, it is equally as easy to...
Women's Rights and Their Reality: the swinging pendulum
UNDER CONSTRUCTION Feminism and women's rights - introduction Where did feminism start? Suffragettes Then The well-known, 'old-fashioned...
Gaza: where are all the human rights lawyers at? ('Won't Somebody Please Think of the Childr
UNDER CONSTRUCTION Intro Events ‘Rights’ and wrongs What should happen? (careful) What is the effect it is having on society? Especially...
