Gender and Sexuality

India’s Gender Gap Challenge Calls for A Blueprint for Structural Change

India wants to lead the global economy by 2047—but half its population is dragging behind. The Global Gender Gap Report 2025 ranks India 131 out of 148 countries, exposing...

Punjab and Haryana HC comes to the rescue of lesbian couple

The girls had been living together and facing threats from their families

Uttarakhand to confer ownership right to women working in husband’s fields

Until now ownership right to land was conferred by birth only to the sons, the amendment seeks to include daughters as well for inheriting father’s property

Rape survivor jailed in Bihar, Human Rights groups write to Patna HC

A lower court judge in Araria had sent the survivor and two women's rights activists helping her to judicial custody after accusing them of 'contempt of court'

Can Islam and Homosexuality be Reconciled?

There seems to a consensus within Islamic theology that...

Former Jharkhand DGP and BJP leader accused of mental harassment for dowry by daughter-in-law

The conviction rate for dowry harassment in India is abysmal at 24.1 percent

FIR filed against unknown persons for circulating ‘false news’ in Kanpur shelter home case

The UP government has now asked authorities to test for Covid-19 across all shelter and observation homes across the state

7,020 individuals and 63 organisations demand justice for Araria rape survivor

​​​​​​​Sign petition to Patna HC Chief Justice asking for release of the survivor and two women’s rights activists who were jailed by a lower court judge for ‘contempt of court’

Kerala nun rape case: Court dismisses Bishop Mulakkal’s discharge plea

Mulakkal has been charged with rape, unnatural sex, wrongful confinement and criminal intimidation.

Sedition charges against 51 including transgender activist for chanting pro-Sharjeel slogans

Organisers of the LGBT Pride solidarity meet where the slogans were raised have issued a statement dissociating themselves from those who raised the slogans

Mumbai Pride: Thousands stand in solidarity against CAA, NPR-NRC

The Queer Azaadi Mumbai Pride 2020 witnessed thousands of Queer people and allies, assembled under the rainbow flag, raising slogans of equality, diversity and freedom. 

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Pushed Back, Let Down: How the state has let down the marginalised in Assam

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