Women, Poverty, Equality: The Role of CEDAW (with Meghan Campbell)
In September 2015, the UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure ...
Gender
Patchy Implementation of the Law is Failing India’s Girls
India is suffering from a supposedly ancient yet timely problem. In violation of the law and Constitution, India’s ...
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) ...
The Sabarimala Temple Ban: An ‘Untouchable’ Rule
On 1st August, 2018, the Supreme Court of India concluded its hearing on a crucial matter regarding the Sabrimala ...
Promoting ‘Gender Ideology’: Constitutional Court of Bulgaria Declares Istanbul Convention Unconstitutional
On July 27 Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled that the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating ...
Women’s Rights and the Proposed Changes to the Gender Recognition Act
In this post we use the word women to refer to individuals born as women (also known as ‘natal women’). The ...
Argentine Senate Rejects Bill on Abortion: The Way Forward
The Argentine Senate has recently rejected, by a 7-vote margin, a Bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies on the ...
In Unregulated Spaces: Empowering Female Migrant Workers from India
On 4 May 2018, Sheeja Das, an Indian migrant worker, was forced to jump off her employer's residence in Muscat, ...
The Restitution of Conjugal Rights in Indian Law violates the Right to Privacy
In 1983, the Indian Supreme Court held that the right to privacy did not guarantee the autonomy of an individual ...
Indian High Court’s Recognition of a Person’s Right to Live as Transgender – A Bitter-Sweet Pill
In a recent judgement by the Kerala High Court, the court refused to issue a writ of habeas corpus and dismissed ...
Female Genital Mutilation as a Question of Gender Equality (with Brenda Kelly)
New Podcast: One of the targets under UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 is to eliminate all harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, or FGM. In this episode, we talk with Dr Brenda Kelly, a consultant obstetrician at the Oxford Rose Clinic, which specialises in treating patients with FGM.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the Future of Women’s Reproductive Rights
President Trump recently named Justice Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee. Although the nomination ...
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