Gender and Sexuality

Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books

An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct

Lakhimpur Kheri: Bodies of two sisters found hanging from a tree

Family alleges rape, autopsy report awaited; at least four arrested so far

Marital Rape: Supreme Court to hear batch of petitions on September 16

Bench to tag together all similar petitions against the split verdict of Delhi High Court bench on the marital rape exception for the next hearing

Supreme Court directs Centre to frame policy on jobs for transgender persons

Centre to form policy to provide reasonable accommodation to transgender people in employment in the establishments within three months under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019

Madhya Pradesh: 13-year-old Dalit rape survivor allegedly beaten by police

Girl’s family alleges police forcibly kept the girl overnight at the police station where she was kicked and beaten with belts to pressure her to change her statement

Rajasthan: Khap fines rape survivor for failing virginity test

Woman’s family directed to pay Rs 10 lakhs for “purification ceremony”

Transgender Activists Say UP Cop Beat Them up for Sheltering Trans Son in Gurugram

Two persons were allegedly assaulted by the cop who has been identified as Krishna Kant Singh from the Haidergarh police station in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh.

Rape accused allegedly rapes survivor again upon being granted bail

Accused was booked under POCSO and the Indian Penal Code, and arrested again

Statewide protest call over police inaction against rape accused Karnataka seer

Dr Shivamurthy Murugha SharanaruBengaluru: Dalit and student organizations and...

Crime against women: Allahabad HC questions delay in registering cases

Court told the state government that sometimes it takes over six months to register a case

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