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Pratiksha Baxi
The writer is associate professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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The lack of empathy for survivors of sexual violence, assaultSubscriber Only
January 10, 2025 07:40 IST
It is a travesty that survivors of abuse are still not given clothes kits in hospitals and police stations. The Delhi HC verdict is a welcome intervention, but it is the first of many steps to be taken
Fri, Jan 10, 2025
Why laws on sexual violence continue to be skewed against womenSubscriber Only
August 22, 2024 07:15 IST
Backlash against those who fight sexual harassment is now institutionalised, even by the courts as workplaces. Change in rape culture is not possible if dissent is censored and criminalised.
Fri, Aug 23, 2024
Pratiksha Baxi writes: After Manipur, disturbing questions before Supreme CourtSubscriber Only
July 26, 2023 07:45 IST
Will the suffering of survivors be at the heart of judicial decision making? Or will these body blows to feminist constitutionalism remain an academic matter for jurists?
Wed, Jul 26, 2023
Pratiksha Baxi writes: Mass remission for Bilkis Bano case convicts is an act of symbolic violenceSubscriber Only
September 13, 2022 04:15 IST
Pratiksha Baxi writes: The judiciary must reflect on how this decision was indifferent to the fact that each stage of the case has been indescribably traumatic for the survivor, witnesses, and her support persons. This trauma which is simultaneously individual, and collective has been inflicted yet again 20 years later
Tue, Sep 13, 2022
Mass jailing of undertrials must endSubscriber Only
February 14, 2022 03:30 IST
The issue needs public health & gender sensitive approach, as overcrowded prisons have felt devastating impact of the Omicron variant
Mon, Feb 14, 2022
The broken promise of justice in rape casesSubscriber Only
August 30, 2021 03:00 IST
Pratiksha Baxi writes: Protests by victims and litigants highlight a culture of impunity and a legal system in urgent need of reform.
Tue, Aug 31, 2021
Delhi High Court verdict underlines the political dimensions, repressive nature of mass incarcerationSubscriber Only
June 16, 2021 03:35 IST
Pratiksha Baxi writes: India’s penal policy must change such that jail is an exception, rather than increasing mass incarceration of pre-trial prisoners.
Wed, Jun 16, 2021
Delhi court granting bail to infant’s mother is a welcome change during the pandemicSubscriber Only
April 21, 2021 03:05 IST
This pandemic has taught us that by refusing to even give interim bail to women undertrials, including mothers and pregnant women or the elderly and the seriously ill, and victims of prison rape, the criminal legal system is attached to a spectacular form of cruelty.
Wed, Apr 21, 2021
Must the rights framework that limits state excess be suspended in disaster?Subscriber Only
July 06, 2020 03:34 IST
In violation of the non-discrimination clause of the disaster law, many undertrials are constructed as “undeserving” and condemned to inhuman, cruel and degrading treatment.
Mon, Jul 06, 2020
Violence at Gargi College points to the impunity enjoyed by the mobSubscriber Only
February 14, 2020 04:45 IST
The idea that women students have rights was totally irrelevant to these male mobs. The space for a college festival turned into a theatre of macabre sexual violence.
Fri, Feb 14, 2020
A mercy petition allows for rectifying miscarriage of justice, mitigates errors in the legal systemSubscriber Only
January 24, 2020 00:20 IST
When society celebrates an encounter killing of rape suspects, our judiciary should worry.
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
Her right to chooseSubscriber Only
October 19, 2017 01:00 IST
SC does well to criminalise marital rape of a minor wife. It also needs to classify child marriage as forced marriage
Thu, Oct 19, 2017
Netaji, unreformedSubscriber Only
August 26, 2015 00:04 IST
Despite overwhelming protest, critique and lobbying, there is little change in the way rape is trivialised.
Wed, Aug 26, 2015
The despair of BadaunSubscriber Only
June 03, 2014 00:18 IST
Inscribed in the tragedy are rapacious systems of dominance.
Tue, Jun 03, 2014Apologies asideSubscriber Only
November 25, 2013 05:29 IST
Disciplinary action cannot replace legal proceedings against sexual violence.
Mon, Nov 25, 2013When time is on the states sideSubscriber Only
December 26, 2009 03:03 IST
The Ruchika Girhotra case is a study in brute power and legal indifference.....
Sat, Dec 26, 2009
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