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...
Gender
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...
Mumtaz Bibi v Qasim: Islamabad High Court’s Landmark Judgment on Child Marriage
Image description: Children in a village in Sindh Pakistan. As per a recent UNICEF report, Pakistan is home to nearly 19 million child brides: one in three girls in Pakistan...
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...
Are Adoptive Mother Entitled to get Maternity Leave?
Image Description: The picture of a woman working on the computer at her desk in the office. She is holding a baby in her hand. Section 5(4) of the Maternity...
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...
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”,...
Visas for Surrogates: Acknowledging Familial Bonds between Surrogates, Intended Parents, and Children
Image Description: Surrogate parents attending the birth of the child in the hospital with the gestational mother. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought into focus the vulnerabilities of surrogates gestating...
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...
Leigh v Commissioner for the Police of the Metropolis: Fundamental Rights during COVID
Image description: Large collection of lit candles amidst darkness In Leigh v Commissioner for the Police of the Metropolis [2022] EWHC 527, the High Court ruled that the Metropolitan Police...
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...
The Husband’s Stitch: A Violation of Patients’ Bodily Autonomy
Image description: Woman in medical uniform looks at a pelvic x-ray The ‘husband’s stitch’ is the practice of placing an extra stitch at the vaginal opening of a patient after...
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