Indian Gay Rights Case opens gateways for Article 15 and Intersectionality
In a landmark judgment on 6th September, 2018, a five judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India in ...
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Deporting Rohingya Refugees: Indian Supreme Court Violates Principle of Non-refoulement
On 4 October 2018, a three judge bench of the Supreme Court of India refused to stay the deportation of seven ...
Indian Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Women’s Entry into Religious Temple
Recently, a (4:1) majority of a five-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court in Indian Lawyers ...
Persecution of rights activists and voices of dissent in India
Recently, in a series of synchronized raids carried throughout India, various human rights activists and vocal ...
Tackling India’s Devadasi System – A Matter of Policing and Public Order?
In September 2017, India’s National Human Rights Commission issued notices to the states of Andhra Pradesh and ...
Transformative Constitutionalism: Indian Supreme Court Upholds Constitutional Morality by Reading Down Section 377
In a historic judgment pronounced on 6th September 2018, the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Singh Johar vs Union ...
Early Childhood Education and Care for Informal Workers: An Emancipatory Framework for Better Working Futures’ (2018) U of OxHRH J 16
The practice of taking children to the workplace poses enormous challenges to women's productivity and child welfare.
Indian Supreme Court Decriminalizes Same-Sex Relations
In a landmark judgment delivered today, the Supreme Court of India decriminalized same-sex relations, and affirmed ...
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 ...
Section 377: The Essence of Freedom
A country that routinely bans movies that attempt to speak of homosexuality is witnessing a historic discussion on ...
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