Gender and Sexuality

Shariat Campaign: Ulema’s Boon to Hindutva

Progressive Muslims reject AIMPLB’s 'Save Shariah' Campaign; Call for gender justice and real reforms

International Women’s Day: A tribute to advocates who challenged patriarchy

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

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

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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