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Beyond mere Recognition: The Jane Kaushik judgment and the next frontier of transgender equality
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged the dignity and rights of employment of transgender individuals, ordered monetary compensation for a transwoman teacher who had been terminated from her position, and ordered that a model Equal Opportunity Policy be made mandatory in all institutions, going further than the Constitution's promise of equality in private employment
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International Women’s Day: A tribute to advocates who challenged patriarchy
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Battling discriminatory and oppressive practices, these lawyers dared to challenge the system
Women & Men too, must arise now and #Embrace Equity!
On February 13, a mother and her daughter were...
Asma अब भी जिंदा है! (Ab bhi Zinda hai!) Asma is still Alive!
A personal tribute on International Womens Day …. if we in Pakistan can fight our dictators, you should be able to fight your politicians!
Not a Dalit Women’s Day in India
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The more layered oppressions faced routinely by Dalit women demand that Indian police and courts respond; this however will only happen if diversity through creative affirmative action within these structures is inbuilt; today the system resists any discussion on diversity
Struggle of women social reformers, Savitribai Phule, Fatima Shaikh recalled: International Women’s Day
Women and men have equal contribution in the formation...
Hathras gangrape: Only Sandeep Sisodiya convicted for culpable homicide, and not for rape
The Hathras special court has sentenced him to life imprisonment, while acquitting others accused in the case
Niwari’s Women Farmers Lead the Efforts for Sustainable Farming and Protection of Environment
Women farmers of Neemkhera village (Niwari district and block, Madhya Pradesh) gather near their ancient water tank built during the times of Chandel kings several centuries earlier.
How the 9-year-old custody of a girl child is unsettled after a bitter legal battle
The doctrine of parens patraie is invoked by the Allahabad HC without an interview with the girl child
Domestic Violence Act, 2005: SC directs union to hold meetings with various ministries, states/UTs, address hopeless inadequacy of protection officers
In a significant order passed last week, Friday, Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Dipankar Datta of the Supreme Court directed the Secretary of the union ministry of Women and Child Development to convene a meeting with the various ministries including the ministry of finance, social justice and home affairs, Principal Secretaries of all states and Union Territories to, inter alia, look into the issue of inadequacy of Protection Officers under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
India behind on poverty, health and gender goals: Independent study
The study, which covers 707 districts, has found that barely a year ago, in 2021, over 75 per cent of the districts were off target on key indicators such as access to basic services, anaemia, poverty, child marriage etc
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Washed Away by Floods, Targeted by the State: Hamela Khatun’s fight for citizenship
CJP’s team helped Hamela piece together a lifetime of evidence — from 1950s land documents to contemporary electoral rolls — to establish beyond doubt that she is, and always has been, an Indian citizen
Communal Organisations
The Orchestrated Extremism: An analysis of communal hate speech in India’s election cycle (2024–2025)
This piece uncovers the rise of digital warfare—from caste-coded AI videos in Bihar to calls for the economic segregation of vendors—detailing the calculated strategy to fracture society and weaponise Dalits against Muslims to divert attention from joblessness and poverty
Communalism
Communal Profiling at Malabar Hill, CJP’s files complaint with Maharashtra Police and NCM
The complaint to Maharashtra Police and the NCM details how a former BJYM office-bearer allegedly conducted unauthorised identity checks and singled out vendors on religious grounds
India
Massive duplicate entries in Mumbai voter rolls trigger political uproar; opposition flags “fraudulent patterns” and pressures SEC for action
With more than 10.6% of Mumbai’s electorate appearing multiple times in the SEC’s draft rolls—some duplicated over a hundred times—the Opposition alleges targeted tampering in their strongholds, raises alarm over rising “elected unopposed” patterns, and demands urgent corrective action and extended scrutiny
Rule of Law
‘They Have a Right to Be Heard’: Supreme Court suggests Union brings back alleged deportees from Bangladesh “at least as a temporary measure”
Top Court questions the Union’s resistance to repatriation, stressing that individuals asserting Indian citizenship cannot be expelled without enquiry, hearing, or due process — as both Indian and Bangladeshi courts find the June 2025 deportations unconstitutional and improperly executed
Hate Speech
A New Silence: The Supreme Court’s turn toward non-interference in hate-speech cases
The Court’s refusal to monitor rising hate-speech incidents marks a decisive shift from its earlier activist stance, exposing contradictions between judicial pronouncements, institutional capacity, and the lived realities of targeted communities
World
Israel, United States & and other complicit entities guilty of genocide, ecocide, and forced starvation in Palestine: International People’s Tribunal
After two days of intense hearings, coincidence of in-person and online testimonies, the Tribunal delivered its verdict to the world and found the US, Israel, UK, Germany, France, Hungary, The Netherlands and others guilty of ecocide and forces starvation of the Palestinian people
India
‘Designed to Exclude’: The ongoing enumeration phase of the SIR
In a multi-state report on the hasty and ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being conducted by the ECI, the PUCL has, echoing what opposition parties and other civil rights groups been stating, called it ‘designed to excluide’