Category Archives: Women’s Rights Initiative
From Campaign to Monitoring: Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
This documentary depicts the challenging process undertaken by Lawyers Collective in conjunction with other women’s rights organizations, towards coalition creation and consensus building on drafting and implementing the domestic violence law. It also reflects our engagement with other stakeholders to
Background
The Lawyers Collective Women’s Rights Initiative (“LCWRI”)’s mission is the empowerment of women through law. This is based on the belief that law is an instrument of social change and can be used in different ways to further the constitutional
Property Rights
Lawyers Collective Women’s Rights Initiative had studied the amendments made in 2005 to the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 whereby the daughter was formally added as a coparcener. This report aimed to map the development in inheritance and property rights under the
WOMEN’S RIGHTS INITIATIVE
Staying Alive: Fourth National Conference on the Implementation of “the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005”. 19th December 2010 BRIEF REPORT Lawyers Collective, Women’s Rights Initiative in joint collaboration with National Commission for Women and supported by UNTF,held
CEDAW
In July 2008, Indira Jaising was elected to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). CEDAW, an expert body established in 1982, is composed of 23 experts on women’s issues from around the world. The Committee’s mandate is very
Anti-Discrimination/Sex Equality
Constitutional Background The Indian Constitution guarantees equality as ‘Fundamental Rights’ in Articles 14, 15 and 16 under Part III. Article 14 guarantees equality before law and the equal protection of laws. Article 15 prohibits discrimination ‘only’ on the basis of
