Balancing Gender Rights: Pakistan’s Federal Shariat Court’s Verdict on Self-Perceived Gender Identity
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018 (the ‘Act’), passed by Pakistan’s Parliament in May 2018, marked a significant milestone following a decade-long judicial effort aimed at safeguarding the...
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...
Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation in Ukraine
Image description: The Mariinskyi Palace, the official residence of the President of Ukraine. Despite the war and the challenging economic situation in Ukraine, the gender rights issues are still actual,...
New Zealand bans conversion therapy and incorporates rights-based mechanism
Image description: rainbow queer pride flag Conversion therapy Conversion therapy involves psychological, spiritual, and physical practices to ‘convert’ a person’s gender identity or expression and/or sexual orientation preferably to that...
Trends in the Legal Uptake of India’s Landmark Trans Rights Decision
Image description: Three people leading a group of protesters in India. They are carrying pamphlets, the rainbow flag and posters. The Supreme Court of India’s landmark 2014 decision in National...
Welfare as a Human Right: An Intersectional Approach to Trans Rights in India
Image description: Protesters protesting the Transgender Bill in India in 2018. Judicial intervention has given the impetus for Indian queer politics to articulate its civil and political demands. However, there...
Do Not Thwart Women’s Employment, Facilitate It: Indian Supreme Court Strikes Down Arbitrary Gender-Based Restrictions to Restaurant Orchestras
Image description: A group of women, many of whom are smiling or laughing. The Indian Supreme Court recently delivered a pathbreaking judgment reminding the State of its obligation to facilitate...
The Need for Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Private Sector for the LGBTQ Community in India
Image description: A person holding a poster saying ‘protect LGBTQ workers now’. In 2018, the Supreme Court of India delivered a historic judgement in Navtej Singh Johar v. UOI, which...
ARTS Bill: A Setback to Procreational Rights of the Queer Community in India?
Image description: Several people gathered on either side of a Pride (rainbow) flag. First approved by the Union Cabinet in 2020, the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill was passed in...
Conversion Therapy Banned in Canada: A Wake-Up Call for Others
Image Description: A 6-colour (Rainbow) Pride Flag flying in the sky. The rays of the sun are falling on the Flag. Background “Conversion therapy” is an umbrella term used to...
The Supreme Court Refused to Order the Legal Recognition of Elan-Cane’s Non-Gendered Identity
With its judgment in the Elan-Cane case, the UK Supreme Court lost an invaluable opportunity to ease one of the many components of the regulatory network that sustain the UK’s...
Should the armed forces free itself of gender binary norms?
“Self-determination of gender is an integral part of personal autonomy and self-expression and falls within the realm of personal liberty guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.” –NALSA...
