Afrasiab Ahmed Rana (International Islamic University, Islamabad) and Hafiz Muhammad Siddique (University of Oxford) recently published an article entitled, The Transgender Persons (Protection Of Rights) Act 2018: A Shariah Appraisal of Self-Perceived Gender Identity and Right of Inheritance of The…
Article: The Transgender Persons (Protection Of Rights) Act 2018: A Shariah Appraisal of Self-Perceived Gender Identity and Right of Inheritance of The Transgender
Afrasiab Ahmed Rana (International Islamic University, Islamabad) and Hafiz Muhammad Siddique (University of Oxford) recently published an article entitled, The Transgender Persons (Protection Of Rights) Act 2018: A Shariah Appraisal of Self-Perceived Gender Identity and Right of Inheritance
Elemental Risk: the Threat to Electric Vehicles
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Round-up 2: Rwanda documents disclosable, new UKSC justices, and Afghan Judges stranded
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A former Afghan judge, who is fleeing from the Taliban with her son, has appealed against the Home Office rejected her application to enter the UK. Lawyers representing the woman state that she
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“Fault Lines of Refugee Exclusion: Statelessness, Gender, and COVID-19 in South Asia” by Chakraborty & Bhabha
Roshni Chakraborty and Jacqueline Bhabha published their work, Fault Lines of Refugee Exclusion: Statelessness, Gender, and COVID-19 in South Asia, in volume 23 the Health and Human Rights Journal. The introduction to the article is excerpted here:
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Litigation in Pakistan
The Pakistani legal system has several influences. It applies the British common law system, Islamic traditions, and its practitioners may also cite law from Indian and American sources. So I was excited to speak with Sameer Khosa, a partner
Human Rights Claims & Appeal Rights: MY (Pakistan)
In MY (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 1500 the Court of Appeal considered when an immigration “refusal decision” constitutes a “refusal of a human rights claim” for the purpose of the Immigration Act…The
国家电网巴基斯坦默蒂亚里-拉合尔±660千伏高压直流输电BOOT项目成功实现商业运营
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Forced Marriage: Law and Practice in Pakistan
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