University of Pretoria Centre for Child Law and OxHRH urge the Supreme Court of Appeal to put children first in landmark class action case on the Kabwe Lead Poisoning.

Read the press statement here: bit.ly/43ULWhY

#environmentaljustice #leadpoisoning #kabwe #childrights

Does gender matter to the justifying limits on rights?

My new book, published today, uncovers untenable gendered assumptions in justification orthodoxy and calls for methodological innovation so women's equality is not too readily sacrificed to the public good.

More info here: shorturl.at/oViDJ

Our next post is from @maireadenright.bsky.social

The upshot is that this approach to human rights law inevitably misrecognises reproductive violence. It invisibilises forms of serious, if depressingly everyday, harm which are produced, intentionally or unintentionally...

dflw.ie/obstetric-vi...

@rishikasahgal.bsky.social & Gautam Bhatia have recently published a paper examining eviction cases in India focusing on meaningful engagement as a part of the right to housing.

Read in the latest issue of Comparative Constitutional Studies Journal: www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...

Wrote this piece on the need to recognise gendered oppression - in all its forms - as always the path to #tyranny.

Gendered domination is alway present but failing to confront that = also failing to see the rapid return to patriarchy as the first sign of authoritarianism

dflw.ie/power-gender...

I'm quoted in this New York Times piece on the report used to proscribe Palestine Action.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

Join us in congratulating OxHRH member Dr Victoria Miyandazi, whose scholarship was cited by the Supreme Court of Kenya in its recent landmark judgment 👏

📄 Read full judgment here: drive.google.com/file/d/15UC6...

📚 You can buy the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/equality-...

The Changing Tides of Delictual Liability: State Failure at the Intersection of Housing and Property Rights in Johannesburg

Meghan Finn analyses the decision which marks a significant legal turn, testing private law's response to chronic state inaction.

ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-changing...

In For Women Scotland, the UKSC held there was no intention for sex to mean anything other than biological.

I speak with Melanie Field, who was the senior official on the development of the Equality Act, who points out there were drafting considerations the Court missed.

tinyurl.com/2d5p83ta

Podcast Out | #WorldEarthDay2025

Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice – Climate Injustice: A Gendered Global Crisis

Part 1: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/feminist-fro...

Part 2: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/feminist-fro...

If you are passionate about ending pay discrimination, please consider responding to our call for inputs!

This is for a research commissioned by the UK Office for Equality and Opportunity on equal pay.

If keen, please do reach out!

www.equalrightstrust.org/news/call-in...

From the heart of the Canadian prairies to the heart of the British Midlands, delighted to talk to Law Talks on what it means to be a equality law academic in these turbulent times!

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New article open access in @lawandhistrev.bsky.social //“Up with the Brave”: Gender, Transgression and Judges’ Use of Catholic Convents in England and Ireland, 1930–1959 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very pleased about this.

Plus ça change, my first post on this platform is shameless self promotion!

Myself and @btcwarwick.bsky.social argue that asking the "when" question provide news depth to the nature of structural gender inequalities in this blog for African Law Matters.

www.africanlawmatters.com/blog/tempora...