Category Archives: Blog
Category Archives: Blog
Category Archives: Blog
Category Archives: Blog
Category Archives: Blog
Category Archives: Blog
Retrenchment and Indirect Discrimination
Women’s rights advocates often appear to enjoy seizing a clear case of direct discrimination against women – one so obviously unfair that it is a pleasure to sink their teeth into it and fight for justice that has been so clearly denied. However, beyond these important cases, there is another looming challenge for the women’s […]
No straitjacket formula to determine consent in rape: SC
While adjudicating upon a case of alleged rape, where the question of consent was the issue, the Supreme Court observed that sex with the consent of the girl on a promise to marry her will not constitute rape unless it was shown that such consent was obtained by the man under coercion or threat. In […]
Woman! Adjust!?!
About fifteen years ago, when a colleague joined my office, she was aghast with what she heard in the Court on the very first day of work. It was a matrimonial case and the Judge simply was forcing the wife to go back to her husband although she was completely unwilling. It was brought to […]
Is the UPR achieving (what it demanded/expected) for women on sexuality issues in India?
This article appeared in the “Sexuality Policy Watch Newsletter”. Click to read: Is the UPR achieving (what it demanded/expected) for women on sexuality issues in India? By Madhu Mehra, Director of Partners for Law in Development
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai: uniting the struggle for peace and education with struggle against imperialism and cultural relativism. A struggle to make the indivisibility of rights under CEDAW a reality in Swat. The following article is by Derrick O’Keefe, co-writer of Afghan MP Malalai Joya’s political memoir, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her […]
The Op-Cedaw: Not a Big, Bad Wolf But an Indispensible Guide Dog
It is worth probing why only 104 of the 186 state parties to CEDAW have ratified the Optional Protocol (OP-CEDAW). What holds state parties committed to implementing the substantive obligations of CEDAW back from embracing additional mechanisms of redress that advance women’s equality? The communications procedure for individual complaints to CEDAW, and the inquiry mechanism […]
 
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