Gender and Sexuality

Pointing to increasing number of such cases and lacuna in law for this offence, the court said that for women in our society promise of marriage is a great allurement, and they are trapped in a situation which results in their sexual abuse and exploitation

Uttar Pradesh has consistently recorded the highest tally of sexual abuse cases against children between 2015 and 2019

This figure is for the period 2017-2019, as per a submission in Parliament on sexual abuse of children in child care institutions set up under the Juvenile Justice Act

The Women and Child Development Minister stated that out of these, 150 complaints have been received since January 1, 2020

India still does not have a law condemning torture

In the ongoing monsoon session, the Centre has said that it also has no data on increase in child marriages due to poverty

Also, by giving the NIA the authority to investigate the offences, the government is once again stepping on the Constitution’s essential federal structure and centralising a law-and-order issue that is essentially a state subject.

LGBTQIA+ community in India suffers even more in wake of Covid-19, and doesn’t have any real support system to protect the vulnerable

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