Research Area: Diversity, Gender Equality
The following blog article responds to Celestial Citizen's short film "Take Up Space" - addressing gendered issues in the space sector and emphasizing the need for action to address systemic discrimination and harassment faced by women within a male-dominated industry.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The following technical presentation was delivered as part of the 2022 IAC Conference in Paris, France. It highlights the growing congestion and pollution of the outer space commons, and underscores the need for governments and stakeholders to recognize space as the cultural heritage of humankind.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The following article was written and submitted as part of the Northern Illinois University Law Review's 2022 Symposium on "Sustainable Development in Space Law: Ethical and Economic Considerations of Settlement in Outer Space". The article acknowledges the growing degree of human activity in space and calls upon governments and stakeholders to support diversity, accessibility, and inclusion for disabled persons across human spaceflight activities.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Health
The following blog article advocates for equality, diversity, and gender equality across human spaceflight activities. This follows the need to accelerate female participation in space; cognizant of evolving challenges concerning workplace discrimination, health, and reproductive rights.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The following blog addresses the announcement of a self-imposed moratorium on the testing of Direct Ascent Anti-satellite missiles by the US Biden administration. The decision contributes to ongoing efforts to shape norms of responsible behavior in space; and intersects with several human rights principles in safeguarding a safe, stable, and sustainable space environment.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The following article was written and submitted as part of the Northern Illinois University Law Review's 2022 Symposium on "Sustainable Development in Space Law: Ethical and Economic Considerations of Settlement in Outer Space". The article addresses the advent of remote work conditions following the COVID-19 pandemic, and how implications on the evolving nature of working rights will reflect upon future employment in the outer space context.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The following blog piece was contributed by the SGAC Space Law & Policy Project Group. It examines the close relationship between human rights and the environment, and reviews several legal challenges associated with the use of earth observation technologies to monitor climate change.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The following White Paper explores the value of remote sensing for human rights treaty compliance, verification and enforcement. It critically examines the haphazard and diverse use of satellite imagery and surveillance by governments and NGOs in countering civil and political human rights violations. The paper proposes the formation of a dedicated UN agency to promote uniformity, advance accountability, and to hold governments accountable to their international human rights obligations.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The following manuscript was submitted and presented as part of the 2021 Moon Village Association Symposium. It examines the need for mutual recognition on the issue of jurisdiction concerning legal matters in outer space. This bears relevance to the rule of law, and represents a crucial element in supporting the realization of international human rights law across the final frontier.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The following article critically analyses ongoing dialogues within civil society promoting environmental personhood for the Moon, as a means for recognising and safeguarding the lunar environment for future generations. It is thus asserted that the application of a human rights-based perspective provides a concise and effective means for operationalising these aspirations within the scope of international human rights law and international space law.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Food Security
The following blog piece considers the growing importance of food security and sustainability in supporting human spaceflight activities across the final frontier. As an economic, social and cultural right; policymakers and stakeholders must engage in dialogue over how the right to food may be addressed from the view of availability, adequacy, and accessibility.
Research Area: Civil and Political Rights, Rule of Law
The following blog piece considers how the unique temporal and geographical challenges of outer space will impact upon the practical extraterritorial extension of international human rights law into space, and its ramifications for the security and stability of future human settlements across the final frontier. The article sheds light on the significant challenges faced by non-derogable human rights in outer space.
Research Area: Labor Rights
The following blog piece analyzes the future of labor in the outer space context, highlighting the potential for private business entities to coerce and exploit employees and space laborers. The article advances the need for several human rights considerations for labor rights in outer space, building upon existing international human rights agreements and labor protections.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
Delivered as part of the 2021 The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty Conference, this presentation outlines the underlying moral, ethical, and philosophical rationale for a human rights-based approach to human activities in space, and its benefits in realizing and supporting liberty across the final frontier.
Research Area: Civil and Political Rights, Rule of Law
The following blog piece considers the extraterritorial extension of human rights to promote protections against torture and enhanced interrogation in space, premised upon the need to safeguard civil and political rights within the outer space context. The article establishes the need for a broadened interpretation on the existing definition of torture within international law in safeguarding individual health, security and dignity across the final frontier.
Research Area: Disaster Management
Delivered as part of the 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference - co-hosted by the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs and the European Space Agency - this presentation and conference paper outlines the necessity of a human-rights based approach in supporting disaster management, as part of a wider Planetary Defense Policy.
Research Area: Property Law
The following blog piece contrasts the evolving nature of property law across international space law jurisprudence, focusing upon the relevance of advancing a human right to property in outer space. This is tempered by the unique environmental conditions and hazards of space; and challenges faced in the extraction, transportation, and sale of resources essential to human health, well-being, and dignity.
Research Area: Environmental Law
The following article contribution to Space Legal Issues analyzes the developing international crime of ecocide and its applicability to outer space. It advances that the codification of this crime under international law bears relevance in protecting the outer space environment through an human-rights based approach.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
Delivered as part of the 2021 International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) Conference, this presentation outlines the need for the creation of novel human rights in bridging the intersection of human rights and space - meeting a state's obligation to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights extraterritorially.
Research Area: Environmental Law
This external article contribution to Space Legal Issues explores the relevance of human rights in the use of space applications for integrated water resource management. and advancing UN Sustainable Development Goal No.6.
Research Area: Environmental Law
This external article contribution to Space Legal Issues addresses the application of a human rights based approach to space traffic management. This gives rise to the recognized need to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights concerning the Right to Life, Right to a Healthy Environment, and Right to Culture in creating a safe and sustainable outer space environment.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
This article explores the existing division in access to space between established spacefaring states and developing states. It advances how such inequality must be addressed through the promotion of the Right Equal Access to Space (REAS) - premised upon precedent frameworks in international law, and the concept of state responsibility as related to international human rights law.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
This article examines the existing practice of enfranchisement and self-determination exercised by astronauts - contextualising the existing human right to participate in the political process within the outer space domain. Consequently, the increased presence of human beings in space and other celestial bodies will necessitate a human rights-based approach to issues of statelessness and the right to nationality.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
This blog piece was contributed by the SGAC Space Law & Policy Project Group. It examines the 1996 Space Benefits Declaration, and analyzing the relevance of space applications in supporting terrestrial human rights enforcement through Remote Sensing Principles.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
This blog piece analyzes the need for a general Right to Emergency Access (REA), in protecting human spaceflight participants in distress. This is reinforced through the recognized Right to Life (RTL) and Right to Adequate Housing (RAH) within international human rights law.
Research Area: Rule of Law
Delivered as part of the 23rd Annual International Mars Society Convention, this presentation outlines the utility of human rights as the foundational basis for Constitution making and the creation of a Bill of Rights on Mars and across the final frontier.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
This blog piece analyzes the October 2020 signing of the Artemis Accords - advancing hspow Sections 3, 6 and 9 of the Accords demonstrate an implied support for human rights in relation to the Right to Peace, Right to Life, and Right to Culture.
Charting a Human Rights Framework for Outer Space Settlements
Research Area: Rule of Law
The following paper was submitted under the IISL COLLOQUIUM ON THE LAW OF OUTER SPACE Symposium, as part of the 2020 International Astronautical Congress. The paper analyzes intersection of human rights and space, and outlines the extension of human rights to persons on celestial bodies.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
Published on Room - Space Journal of Asgardia, the article outlines the importance of human rights in space, describing how keeping space
as a peaceful and cooperative domain can be supported by established
international law principles and agreements.
Research Area: Environmental Law
Published on Space Legal Issues, the article examines the relationship between the UN Sustainable Development Goals, space applications, and human rights.
The article outlines how the use of space applications to address climate change impacts upon human rights enforcement, and analyzes how this can be elevated in adopting a human-rights based approach.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
Published on Filling-Space, the article outlines the general importance of exploring the intersection of human rights and outer space.
Filling-Space is a social enterprise aimed at democratizing engagement with space.tents of human rights and space law agreements addressing humanity's presence and activities across the final frontier.
Research Area: Health Law
This White Paper explores the need for the Right to a Breathable Atmosphere (RBA) as a fundamental and non-derogable absolute human right, the realization of which is central to the survival and prosperity of humanity within its collective endeavours across the final frontier.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
This webinar was presented during the Moon Society's 2020 Lunar Development Conference - highlighting how the extraterritorial application of human rights values and principles into the domain of outer space is central to the stability of permanent civilian settlements on the moon, and integral to humanity’s expansion across the final frontier.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
This blog piece advocates the need for gender inclusive language within the contents of human rights and space law agreements addressing humanity's presence and activities across the final frontier.
Research Area: Law of War/Conflict
This article examines the need for human rights under the Right to Peace, to create a stable and cooperative international order in outer space. The article is part of the Lawfare in OuterSpace series - an invitation for discussions on the ‘laws of war’ in outer space.
Research Area: Economic, Social and Cultural Law
This White Paper outlines the history of the disability rights movement, highlights the challenges facing persons with disabilities in space, and explores the need to promote the human rights of persons with disabilities in outer space.