News and Events

The information in this section is organised under two main categories - news and events. This information here is updated on a monthly basis. The news is categorised under the following themes INTERNATIONAL
UPDATES FROM THE UN
* United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 1888 and 1889
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
* New secular coalition against fundamentalisms up for endorsement
* The African Union adopts Convention on Internally Displaced Persons
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL UPDATES.
* Constitutional Court of Kuwait allows women to get own passports without the approval of husbands
* Bahrain passes landmark family law * Aceh passes adultery stoning law
NATIONAL NEWS
* Government approves 50% reservation in panchayats and urban local bodies
LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS.
* The SC asks the Centre to legalise prostitution if they cant curb it
* Medical expenses of wife can be claimed as interim maintenance
* Dowry law applies to live-in partner
* Inter-caste child marriage declared void
* Obstructing ‘Love Jihad’ or inter religious marriages?
* Landmark judgment protecting the rights of aged parents?
EVENTS
* Irom Sharmila enters 10th year of hunger strike
* Safe Delhi for Women Initiative launched on 25 November
* One Day, One Struggle to Promote Human Rights’; 9 November
* Four Decades of Violence against Women in Indonesia: Building Public Knowledge and a Collective Responsibility to end impunity and rebuild a Just Nation’; 29-30 November
* My Body, My Life, My Rights: Addressing Violations of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights’ APWLD, 7-8 December
NEW RESOURCES
* Waves in Hinterland: Farah Naqvi
* Unpackaging Human Rights: Concepts, Concerns and Campaigns:
WRAG and MIHRE
* Staying Alive: Third Monitoring & Evaluation on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005: Lawyers Collective and ICRW
* When Legal Worlds Overlap: Human Rights, State and Non-State Law: ICHR
* New Website on CEDAW launched on its 30th Anniversary


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