2015 Gender Justice Uncovered Award Winners
The 2015 Gender Justice Uncovered Award winners are in. This year the Awards concluded with over 10,000 votes and 100,000 case views for the 67 nominated decisions across 28 different...
India
India Relaxes Child Labour Legislation – A New Challenge for Sustainable Supply Chains in the Garment Sector
The Indian government has recently brought in changes to the Child Labour Act and decided to allow children below the age of 14 to work in selected non-hazardous family industries....
Menstrual Hygiene – the Bloody Road to Substantive Equality
Menstruation is a taboo subject for too many people, male and female alike, leading to misunderstanding, confusion, and prejudice. Menstruation has long been a signifier of Otherness; difference – but...
The Prior Sanction Requirement Under Indian Public Law
On 27 April 2015, the Supreme Court of India (SC) passed judgment in D.T. Virupakshappa v. C. Subhash, a case concerning government sanction prior to the prosecution of police officers...
Free Speech Under the Indian Information Technology Act: The Supreme Court’s Recent Judgment
In a landmark judgment on Tuesday, the Indian Supreme Court (PDF of the decision here) struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which criminalised, inter alia, “grossly offensive”,...
Hungry For Justice For the Last 15 Years: Irom Sharmila Chanu
Last week, when Irom Sharmila Chanu was selected for the Stree Shakti Award by KA Kunjila Smaraka Stree Shakti Trust, Kochi, she explained how she could not formally accept the...
The Challenges for Judicial Appointments in India
In India, several significant developments have taken place in the last two months on how judges to the Supreme Court and High Courts will be appointed. On 31st December 2014,...
Decisiones nominadas para la categoría Garrote en los Premios Género y Justicia al Descubierto 2015
Jueces y juezas de todo el mundo tienen que hacerse responsables de las decisiones discriminatorias que toman y como éstas afectan la vida de las personas, en especial de las...
The ‘Bludgeon’ Nominees in the Gender Justice Uncovered Awards 2015
Judges from all over the world should be held accountable for the discriminatory decisions they issue on matters related to gender equality, and for how these rulings affect the lives...
Translating Questions Of Religion Conversions to Issues of Human Rights: The Proposed Ban on Religious Conversions in a Secular Indian State
In recent months, the political focus in India has shifted towards the sensitive issue of “forced religious conversions”, known as, “Ghar Wapsi” (Homecoming Ceremony). The conversions of 200 Muslims in...
Rights Protection in 2014: A Review of the Indian Supreme Court
2014 was an interesting year for protection of fundamental rights by the Indian Supreme Court. We undertook an unprecedented rights review at the Centre for Law and Policy Research. One...
‘Right to Justice’ Deprived by State: Case of ‘Manorama Vs AFSPA’ from Manipur, India
Recently, the Supreme Court of India, in a case related to Thangjam Manorama Manipur, (who was allegedly killed in 2004 by Assam Rifles, a security force of government) directed the...
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