Ajita Banerjie serves as the Senior Research and Policy Officer at ILGA Asia where her work focuses on access to justice for LGBTIQ communities. Ajita holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights Law from SOAS, University of London, and was the recipient of the Chevening Scholarship.
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Emerging Jurisprudence on Queer Love in India
As India celebrates the 5th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling that read down Section 377, we look at emerging jurisprudence on the ‘right to love’ in India.
On 6th September, five years ago, a five-judge constitution ...
The Death Penalty and its Arbitrary Use to Punish LGBTIQ Persons
Image Description: In the photograph, there are many hangman's nooses/knots in a room. Through one of these nooses, one can observe an empty chair. This photograph is clicked by Vusala Agaraziyeva and it is part of Vusala's artist ...
Transformative Constitutionalism: Indian Supreme Court Upholds Constitutional Morality by Reading Down Section 377
In a historic judgment pronounced on 6th September 2018, the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Singh Johar vs Union of India declared Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to be unconstitutional in so far as it penalizes consensual ...
Discipline and Punish: How Anti-Beggary Laws in India are used to Criminalize Transgender Persons
The Delhi High Court in a landmark judgment (Harsh Mander v. Union of India and Karnika Sawney v. Union of India) has held the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, unconstitutional on grounds that it violates the Article 14 ...
