Raghavi Viswanath History bears testimony to the fact that maternity has been viewed as a disability. Since the times of the Industrial Revolution, pregnant women have been treated as a liability. Employers have expressed no qualms with regards to dismissing pregnant women from service without granting them pay for the maternity period. Most countries have…
Raghavi Viswanath The Indian judiciary has seen a decelerated evolution with regards to sexual harassment laws. This article seeks to highlight and analyze the various flaws in the legal apparatus to deal with sexual harassment as it exists today. One of the most dubious provisions is Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code. While the…
Vishnu S Warrier Sexual harassment is an act that creates a hostile working environment which may be by way of cracking lewd jokes, verbal or physical abuse, circulating lewd rumors etc. Though, India had signed and ratified Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) way back in 1993, we did…
Author : Swapan Deb Barma Whether the children of AIDS (HIV) victim get same treatment without being discriminated in comparison with normal children. Let’s have a look on this issue United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is committed to protecting every child from violence, exploitation, abuse and discrimination. But given prevailing social, economic and…