Insect trafficking poses risk to wildlife and human health
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Rivers are increasingly being given legal rights
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7 March 2025 
Top award for lecturer’s work on access to justice
Dr Imranali Panjwani has won a prestigious award for work with vulnerable groups
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19 February 2025 The quiet crisis in the family courts of England and Wales
In this blog post, ARU Law Clinic Director Sarah Calder considers the backlog in England and Wales' family courts, and political parties' failure to address it in their manifestos.
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11 February 2025 Latin America is moving fast to protect democracy from excesses of big tech
Senior Research Fellow Dr Sebastian Smart explains how Latin American countries are working to protect their democracies and restrict potential disruption from use of technology or social media.
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2 January 2025 Human Rights and Business: Analysis of Jurisprudence in the Inter-American System
In this blog, I will focus on the rulings of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR Court) and its jurisprudential development in the field of human rights and business. I will analyse the Court's historical recognition of the responsibility of non-state actors in human rights violations, reviewing the initial steps in this area and examining cases that have incorporated standards associated with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).
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11 November 2024 CAJI seminar: Book launch - Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, The Street, The Town
In this blog post, Sebastian Smart reflects on the launch of Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, The Street, The Town, by Fiona Costello, Professor Catherine Barnard, and Sarah Fraser Butlin, hosted jointly by ARU and Middlesex University.
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9 January 2024 Human rights in the digital environment: navigating the interplay of global policy and technology in AI
Between the 14 and 15 of November, I had the privilege to represent the Centre for Access to Justice & Inclusion (CAJI) in a series of meeting at Geneva that brought together representatives form civil society organisations, academia, companies and governments to discuss about issues related to human rights in the digital environment, with a particular focus on AI. One of the key questions was how to navigate different forums and how to focus attention on some of them. While that is usually a strategic decision that each stakeholder needs to address, I here want to give some suggestions of how to close the gap between the aims of different stakeholders, the technical aspects of AI and how to operationalise them in these forums. Also I navigate -in a very exploratory form- some of the challenges and opportunities most of which were highlighted during a workshop delivered by Responsible AI, Law, Ethics and Society.
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9 January 2024 Advancing the discourse on corporate accountability: a global exploration of remedies
Between November 27 and 29, I had the privilege of participating in the 12th Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights. A huge portion of the discussions revolved around the theme of reparations and remedies, prompting me to synthesize noteworthy ideas and initiatives concerning remedies for business-related human rights abuses. Additionally, I aim to delve into the nuanced concept of remedies within this context and shed light on overlooked gaps from the Forum.
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9 January 2024 Human rights in the digital environment: demystifying large information models and foundation models in AI
Between the 14 and 15 of November, I had the privilege to represent the Centre for Access to Justice & Inclusion (CAJI) in a series of meeting at Geneva that brought together representatives form civil society organisations, academia, companies and governments to discuss about issues related to human rights in the digital environment, with a particular focus on AI. This is the second piece of a series of three blogs with some key conclusions and trends. In this opportunity I would like to demystify some concepts that are currently used in public debate and regulation of AI.