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 Hindu Succession Act, 1956.
Property Rights
News
- Govt goes one step back on divorce laws
- Difficult for wife to change lifestyle in hard times: Bombay high court
- High court: No need to merge cases under domestic violence act & marriage act
- Bill to raise age for consensual sex regressive: Court
- Only 18% dowry death cases end in conviction: data
- Rising rape: NCW slams Bengal govt
- Retaliation by tortured wife cannot be ground for divorce: HC
- Andhra Pradesh tops in domestic violence cases
- Amendments Proposed by NCW to The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
- HIV+ women face more domestic abuse
- Woman has right of residence where husband lives: HC
- SC to frame guidelines for court reporting
Activities & Updates
- Vacancy-Research and Advocacy Officer Lawyers Collective Women's Rights Initiative
- NDPS (Amendment) Bill, 2011
- Memorandum on HIV/AIDs Bill Submitted by Civil Society Organizations to NACO
- GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION: EU-INDIA-6-10 February 2012 FTA
- The Pakistan’s Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act, 2012- By Ms Indira Jaising
- Staying Alive-5th Monitoring and Evaluation Report
- EU-India FTA Global Week of Action: Updates
- Oxfam-India to Initiate a Pan-India study on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
- Photographs from the Release of the 5th Monitoring and Evaluation Report 2012