Workplace Sexual Harassment and Institutional Accountability : Why Does Sri Lanka’s New Sexual Harassment Case Matter?
In 2024, Sexual Harassment was the second most reported crime in Sri Lanka and the “workplace” remainsprimary location of the crime. However, only a few cases reach the courts due...
Lest We Forget: The Gambian FGM Ban at the Supreme Court and Why Women’s Rights are at Stake
There is a looming constitutional crisis and an atrocious legal battle unfolding in The Gambia, where the fate of the country’s prohibition of female genital mutilation (FGM) now stands before...
Judicial Recognition and Quantification of Unpaid Domestic Labour in India – A Feminist Analysis
The Supreme Court of India in Shishu Pal @ Shish Ram & Ors v Surjeet & Ors, 2026 INSC 634 has provided a distinct framework for quantifying the unpaid care...
Gender-Based Violence and the Struggle for Justice: Rohingya Women at the Intersection of Law and Displacement
For Rohingya women in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the refugee camp is not simply a humanitarian space. It is a site where gender-based violence (GBV) is woven into the structures of...
Women and the Labour Market: Navigating Algorithm Decision Making
AI is reshaping the labour market, influencing operations across organisations, as Eurostat shows. The ILO has stated that women are more likely than men to be affected by automation. As...
The Problem with Defining Voyeurism Too Narrowly
India stands on an uncharted terrain of privacy jurisprudence, where, on one hand, a normative framework of privacy has taken shape, yet, on the other, the law continues to grapple...
Towards Marriage as a Partnership: Matrimonial Property under Muslim Family Law in Pakistan
There are broadly two ways of thinking about marriage in Islamic law. The first sees it as a relationship of ownership: the husband holds effective control, reflected in his absolute...
The Parental Veto: An Extra-Legal Requirement in Indian Marriages
The state government in Gujarat, India, recently tabled draft rules under the Gujarat Marriage Registration Act, 2006. It introduces parents’ consent as a mandatory requirement for the registration of consensual...
Redefining Parenthood: A Milestone for Adoptive Mothers and the Quest for Gender-Neutral Parental Benefits in India
On 17th March 2026, the Supreme Court of India (‘The Court’) in Hamsaanandini Nanduri v Union of India & Ors struck down Section 60(4) of the Code on Social Security,...
Supreme Court of Canada Rules that Excluding Refugee Claimants from Subsidized Childcare Discriminates Based on Sex in Quebec v Kanyinda
Does excluding refugee claimants from access to subsidized childcare violate the right to equality? In Quebec v Kanyinda (2026 SCC 7), a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC)...
La Cour suprême du Canada déclare que l’exclusion des demandeurs d’asile de l’admissibilité aux services de garde subventionnés établit une discrimination fondée sur le sexe : Québec c Kanyinda
L’exclusion des demandeurs d’asile de l’accès aux services de garde subventionnés viole-t-elle le droit à l’égalité ? Dans l’affaire Québec c Kanyinda (2026 CSC 7), une majorité des juges de...
Timidly Groundbreaking: The Indian Supreme Court’s Judgement on the Right to Menstrual Health
“We wish to communicate to every girl child who might have become a victim of absenteeism because her body was perceived as a burden, that the fault is not hers.”...
