: The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty is the world’s first bilateral agreement regarding climate migration, which is important to the Australia-New Zealand-Pacific region and to the international community. Through the perspectives of the nexus of migration and security and legal doctrinal analysis, this legal column critically reviews articles 3 (human mobility) and 4 (security and defence) of the Treaty and Australia’s recently adopted immigration regulations. It argues that the guiding principles underlying the Treaty are human security for Tuvaluan people and national security for Australia, which might not always be
: In 2022 the Human Rights Committee (HRC) held three sessions and considered the reports of Ethiopia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Philippines, Russian Federation, China (Hong Kong), China (Macau), Georgia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cambodia, Iraq, Israel and Qatar . It analyzed the problems of forced labour, discrimination (particularly of women, Roma and disabled people), protection of the freedom of association and the restrictions of the right to strike. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) held two sessions and adopted the concluding observations in respect of Bahrain, Belarus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Serbia, Uzbekistan, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy, Luxembourg, Mongolia and Tajikistan . It focused, in particular, on the issues of minimum wage, discrimination and unemployment. Provided the wide scope of the concluding observations, we will first focus on the topic of business and human rights, then on the issue of
: Despite the increase in girls’ schooling and their performance first at school and then at university compared with men, young women are discriminated against in employment in Tunisia. Beyond differences in physical, age, social and economic conditions, all women suffer discrimination simply because they are women. Not to mention the cascading discrimination based on disability, social origin and nationality, young women are the most exposed to the danger of violence, economic exploitation and even human trafficking. However, in the aftermath of the Revolution, politicians became aware of the need to speed up the establishment of gender equality. However, the various legal texts adopted have not been effective and have only partially changed the reality for young women, including in the workplace. Despite the measures taken to promote de facto equality in the labour market, persistent discrimination against young women hinders their access to employment on an equal footing with