Tuesday, September 29, 2020

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 24, no. 8, 2020) is out. Contents include:
  • Pratik Dixit, Navtej Singh Johar v Union of India: decriminalising India’s sodomy law
  • Camila Teixeira, Priority, agency and cooperation: how international human rights law helps fulfil the economic and social rights of the most vulnerable
  • Hoko Horii, A blind spot in international human rights framework: a space between tradition and modernity within the child marriage discourse
  • Nomisha Kurian, Rights-protectors or rights-violators? Deconstructing teacher discrimination against LGBT students in England and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as an advocacy tool
  • Başak Çalı & Alexandre Skander Galand, Towards a common institutional trajectory? Individual complaints before UN treaty bodies during their ‘Booming’ years
  • Hasan Aydin & Koksal Avincan, Intellectual crimes and serious violation of human rights in Turkey: a narrative inquiry
  • Tara Smith, Understanding the nature and scope of the right to science through the Travaux Préparatoires of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Mikaela Heikkilä , Hisayo Katsui & Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Disability and vulnerability: a human rights reading of the responsive state
  • Magdalena Kmak, The right to have rights of undocumented migrants: inadequacy and rigidity of legal categories of migrants and minorities in international law of human rights
  • Giovanna Gilleri, ‘How are you actually doing, ladies?’ Indicators of gender equality through the lens of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women