Female Child Has Equal Rights Like Boys: SC

"Female child is entitled to enjoy equal rights that a male child is allowed to have," the Supreme Court observed on Tuesday, passing a slew of directions, including mainti...

Situating Law In The Land

Instead of a blanket ban, the Supreme Court can delegitimise polygyny in India for not being in consonance with the Koranic procedure, just as it invalidated instant triple...

The Rights Of The Terminally Ill

The draft Bill fails to protect the constitutional rights of patients who wish to have their decisions about medical treatment respected. Euthanasia has always been fraught...

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...

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...

Meryl Streep To Members Of Congress: Put The Equal Rights Amendment Into The Constitution.

In support of a new ERA Coalition campaign, yesterday five hundred thirty-five letters personally signed by Meryl Streep were delivered to each and every Member of Congress...

VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing!

As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual.

She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and...

Kickstart Trapped, A Documentary To Protect Women’s Rights

Thirty percent of American women will have an abortion in their lifetime. Nearly half of these women live at or below the federal poverty line, and they’re four times...

Treat TB like HIV, say activists

Treatment Action Campaign, Section 27, and Médecins Sans Frontières are calling for civil society, which forced the government in 2002 to give antiretrovirals...