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Inside Pakistan's Gender-Fluid Hijra Community

In conservative Pakistan, where religious extremists wage continuous battles against the government in the name of a strict interpretation of Islam, male cross-dressers, tr...

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Interest Of Child Comes First: SC

Noting that the interests should be kept “first and foremost” during adoption, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre and the States to frame regulatio...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

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Human Rights

Sleep Is A Fundamental Human Right, India’s Supreme Court Rules

Their reasoning is that it comes under the right to life, as to be able to live people need access to peaceful sleep.
Giving their judgement on Thursday, judges said &...

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Human Rights

Gay Rights Are Human Rights

The human rights of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) people have reached centre stage. Curative petitions have been referred to a Constitution Bench w...

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Gender

SC: Economic Empowerment Is Must For Gender Equality

The Constitutional right to gender equality still remains a dream and women continue to face various kinds of discrimination which can be removed only with economic empower...

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Bollywood

Karan Johar, Sonam Kapoor Come Out In Support For LGBT Rights!

The Supreme Court’s decision of reviewing the Section 377 of Constitution which criminalises homosexuality in India, was welcomed by the LGBT groups in the country. O...

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Human Rights

India: Supreme Court Revisits “Sodomy” Law

India’s Supreme Court agreed on February 2, 2016, to hear an appeal of its2013 decision that upheld a discriminatory law criminalizing same-sex relations, Human Right...

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Another Chance: The Supreme Court Holds Out A Sliver Of Hope That Section 377 May Be Legally Diluted

Hope flickers again. The curative petition on the Supreme Court’s 2013 judgment upholding Section 377 has been referred to a larger five-judge constitutional bench. S...

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Thought Factory

Silent

Deep inside every woman I have ever known across the many hierarchies that paint my world is vacuum; the result of an endless internal conflict that remains unresolved.

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