Tag Archives: Women
Supreme Court to decide on women’s right to dance in bars
9 May 2013, New Delhi: The Supreme Court today reserved its decision on the constitutionality of the ban on dance performances in bars in Maharashtra imposed under the Bombay Police (Amendment) Act of 2005. Introduced in August 2005, section 33A
6th Monitoring and Evaluation Report- Staying Alive: Evaluating Court Orders
The Sixth M&E Report analyzes the extent of protection against violence for women within the framework of marriage and other domestic relationships. Of the 22,255 Magistrate and Sessions Court Orders received by LCWRI, over a period of 9 months, from
Best Practices Manual PWDV Act 2005
The Manual is an amalgamation of best practices compiled from information received through the annual Monitoring & Evaluation exercises conducted by State Governments and state visits. Some best practices highlighted the appointment of full-time government cadre of protection officers (POs)
When consent is key
22 February 2013, New Delhi, Tripti Tandon Non-consensual acts in a commercial context amount to rape: no second opinion about it! ‘When I say I didn’t consent to sex, they say you can’t be raped. But when I say I
Andhra Pradesh
Verbal and emotional violence Denial of relief since Aggrieved Women left the Shared household out of her won volition
Indira Jaising’s TOI article – Blind to what, Your Honour?
Of all the promises made in the Constitution, the most important are the promises of the ‘right to life’, the ‘right to dignity’, the ‘right to personal liberty’ and the ‘right to bodily integrity and health’. However these promises are
Country mission to Japan by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health to investigate into the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, conducted an eleven-day country mission to Japan-from 15 to 26 November- at the invitation of the Government. The Special Rapporteur assessed the links between the right to health
