Rosanna Flamer-Caldera v Sri Lanka (CEDAW, 2022): The First International Case on Lesbian Criminalisation
Image Description: The words CEDAW appear along with the logo of the United Nations. UN Logo – The olive branches are a symbol for peace, and the world map represents...
365 Days to Access Justice: Nepal’s Precarious Rape Law Provision
Image Description: A poster which says ‘End Violence Against Women’ in block letters. The statute of limitation to file a complaint, in the case of rape in Nepal, forms part...
Sacrificing Woman’s Sexual Autonomy to Save Marriage: Reflections on Delhi High Court’s Split Verdict on Marital Rape Exception – Part II
Image Description: On a sheet of paper, the phrase ‘Non-consensual Sex is Rape’ is written. There is an asterisk next to this phrase. Below this phrase, in a much smaller...
Sacrificing Woman’s Sexual Autonomy to Save Marriage: Reflections on Delhi High Court’s Split Verdict on Marital Rape Exception – Part I
Image Description: On a sheet of paper, the phrase ‘Non-consensual Sex is Rape’ is written. There is an asterisk next to this phrase. Below this phrase, in a much smaller...
UK Government Bans Hymenoplasty
Image description: A poster reading ‘My body, my rights’. With the rising concern of young girls and women being subjected to virginity testing and hymen reconstruction surgery, the British government...
Unequal Protection for LGBT+ Victims of Domestic Abuse
Image description: A group of people, men and women, whose photos are arranged in a grid. Many of them bear injuries to the face. The square at the centre of...
The Violence of Care: Obstetric Violence during COVID-19
Image description: Text that reads, ‘reproductive rights are non-negotiable’. Obstetric Violence (OV) is a global health problem. Whilst this terminology alludes to notions of physical harm, OV also encompasses, “disrespect”,...
Violence Against Women: Before and After the Taliban
Image description: An Afghani woman teaching a classroom of girls. Violence against women (VAW) is a global epidemic that affects all nationalities. VAW and long-term deprivation of human rights and...
Muhammad Wasim v. The State: Loopholes in the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2016
Image Description: A sketch of four women protesting against gender-based violence and holding a poster which says ‘STOP’. A 2020 report estimated that about 1000 women and girls are killed...
Manuela v El Salvador: A Missed Opportunity for Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Image description: A march supporting decriminalisation of abortion. One of the participants is a woman wearing green (the symbol of sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America) and holding a...
Anti-Libidinal Punishment for Child Rape Offenders in Nigeria violates Human Rights
Image description: Surgical instruments. In September 2020, the Governor of Kaduna State of Nigeria signed the Kaduna State Penal Code (Amendment) Law 2020, which introduces anti-libidinal punishments for child rape...
Multinational Corporations Owe Responsibility Towards the Forced Labour of Uyghurs in China
US President Joe Biden recently signed into law the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act which will ban goods wholly or partially produced in China’s Xinjiang province because of the ongoing...
