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Neelabh Mishra

Neelabh Mishra, founder and editor-in-chief of National Herald, and former editor of Outlook Hindi passed away last month. Mishra started off his over three decades of journalistic career as a reporter with Navbharat Times and later moved to Rajasthan. Throughout his career, he was associated with human rights movements in different parts of India, especially […]

Asma Jahangir

We are deeply saddened by the untimely demise of Asma Jahangir, renowned lawyer and women human rights defender. A founding member of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), co-founder if Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and co-chair of South Asia Forum for Human Rights, she was recognized both nationally and internationally […]

Guide to HRC for NGO participants

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a Practical Guide to the Human Rights Council for NGO participants at the HRC. The guide simplifies procedures for accreditation, and provides the method for attending HRC sessions including remotely through video conferencing, submitting written statements, making oral statements, and so on. https://bit.ly/1IFceUy

Musawah releases compilation of resources on shariat law

Musawah has released a compilation of resources related to women’s rights in Muslim family law. The compilation is intended for use by activists, human rights experts, and policy makers, to access resources from the academic and policy arenas. https://bit.ly/2ww45E0

Help Age publishes discussion paper on violence against older women

Help Age had published a discussion paper on violence experienced by older women. The paper highlights the frequency with which older persons, especially older women, are subjected to violence, abuse, and neglect, and explores the extent to which violence resulting from the intersections between sex and old age are addressed in international, regional, and national […]

Reports on the economic impacts of child marriage

ICRW and the World Bank have jointly released reports on the economic impacts of child marriage. Based on data collected from Nepal, Ethiopia, and Niger, and already existing data from three other countries, the reports explores the economic consequences of child marriage through health expenditures, educational attainment and labor force participation rates, among other parameters. […]

Supreme Court issues notice to states to implement the SHW Act

The Supreme Court has issued notice to the central government and all state governments to implement the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, Redressal) Act, 2013. This was in response to a PIL filed by an NGO highlighting that several state governments had neither constituted Local Committees in each district, nor had they […]

Supreme Court dismisses plea to make sexual assault gender neutral

The Supreme Court refused to admit a Public Interest Litigation filed by a practicing advocate which sought the declaration of all penetrative and non-penetrative sexual assault provisions in the IPC as gender-neutral – both with respect to the victim and the perpetrator. The challenge was based in the premise that these provisions, under which only […]