Jalandhar male rape: Are men safe in India?

December 24, 2022

In the Roman era, there was a time when people demanded “an eye for an eye” as justice. But now, we don’t believe in “an eye for an eye,” as it is against human rights as well as society. If something like this happened in society, everyone on the planet...

Need for socio-legal discussion over posthumous sperm retrieval

December 20, 2022

We are mortal and will have to die one day. Some die naturally and some die unnaturally. As for societal norms, we must have family members and children who can do the last rituals and someone must be there to continue our generation. But there are many cases where the...

Right to choice of a mother for abortion versus right to life of a foetus

December 13, 2022

It’s an age-old debate whether an unborn foetus has the right to life when the question comes to the abortion right of women. Recently, the Delhi High Court on 6/12/22 passed a judgment where a pregnant lady was allowed to go for an abortion when she was 33 weeks pregnant....

Breaking the myth: Men can also be victims

December 3, 2022

It’s a myth in our society that a man cannot be a victim of cruelty and domestic violence. It’s only women who can become victims of cruelty and domestic violence. In fact, on very few occasions, we will hear or learn about a male victim of cruelty when someone very...

Social discrimination: Time to discuss the gender disability of the Third Gender

December 1, 2022

In 2014, the Supreme Court of India in National Legal Services Authority vs Union of India, (2014) 5 SCC 438, declared that the hijra community will be considered to be a third gender for the first time after the Bhoorah case. This judgment has given gender identification to the hijra...