In the matter of Shrikrushna v. State of Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court on 4th August 2021, while hearing a criminal revision application ag ...
Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce company, has announced in August 2021 that it will set up a committee, initially comprising five female senior ex ...
"She did not look disturbed, reserved, terrified or traumatised in any way even though this was immediately after she claims to have been sexually as ...
Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) is a bailable offence defined as: “Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.— ...
The Madhya Pradesh High Court in the matter of Rajkishore Shrivastava vs. State of MP & Anr. on 2nd August 2021 observed that by giving the prose ...
Pakistan enacted “The Protection Against Harassment of Women at Workplace Act” in 2010. This is the first time that sexual harassment has been define ...
The Kerala High Court in XXX v. XXX (names kept confidential) on 30th July 2021, observed that “Treating a wife's body as something owing to husband ...
The concept of breastfeeding week was formulated way back in the year 1990 by World Health Organisation (WHO) along with United Nations International ...
Imagine a workplace, if you will, with a diverse workforce. It may be similar to yours, people of different castes, creed, religions, ages, genders e ...
On 20th July, 2021, in the case of Arabi U. Vs. The Registrar, Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri and Ors., the Karnataka High Court held that the ...
This is regarding an Order of Pune District Women and Child Development Department as published in the local newspaper Sakal dated 23rd July 2021 reg ...
In Prakashchandra Joshi v. Kuntal Prakashchandra Joshi and others, the Bombay High Court on 24th June 2021 observed that no case has been made out by ...
In Sabitha Unnikrishnan vs. Vineet Das, the Kerala High Court on 28th June, 2021 observed that levelling disgusting accusation of unchastity and attr ...
In the matter of Amar Singh v. Smt. Vimla, the Madhya Pradesh High Court on 22nd June 2021 observed that compelling a married women to live in her pa ...
In a December 2020 decision in the case of Silajit Guha vs. Sikkim University and Ors., a Single Judge Bench of the Sikkim High Court had stated that ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, when people were fighting to avail healthcare services necessary to sustain their lives from accessing labs for RTPCR t ...
Farley coined the phrase “sexual harassment of women on the job” in 1975 to describe the patterns of workplace behavior. It took India 38 years to re ...
You may have come across instances in the news of patients, attendants and those trying to access health care services being sexually harassed. What ...
“The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.”- Russell Wilson. Accord ...
The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 defines ‘domestic violence’ as physical, verbal, emotional, sexual and financial abuse again ...
Whenever one talks about domestic violence, what comes to mind?... The picture of a man beating his wife flashes across our eyes. Doesn’t it?... I’m ...
