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On 15 April 2014, the Supreme Court of India delivered its judgment in National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (NALSA v.UOI), in which it recognised the rights of transgender people in India and laid down a series of measures for securing transgender people's rights by mandating the prohibition of discrimination, recommending the creation of welfare policies, and reservations for ...
Author of the distinguished book Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle Against the Antisodomy Law in India's Present. Sridhar Rangayan: Filmmaker, and founder and festival director of Kasish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival R. Raj Rao: Writer and professor of literature A. Revathi: Actor, artist, writer and theater activist Wendell ...
National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (2014) is a landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of India, which declared transgender people the 'third gender', affirmed that the fundamental rights granted under the Constitution of India will be equally applicable to them, and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender as male, female or third gender.
The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014 is a proposed Act of the Parliament of India which seeks to end the discrimination faced by transgender people in India.The Bill was passed by the upper house Rajya Sabha on 24 April 2015. [1]
It also prevents the institution of equal rape laws for men. [4] [5] Gender inequality in India is a multifaceted issue that primarily concerns women, but also affects men. [6] When India's population is examined as a whole, women are at a disadvantage in several important ways.
Rajnath Singh, a member of the ruling party BJP and the Home Minister, is on record shortly after the law was re-instated in 2013, claiming that his party is "unambiguously" in favour of the law, also claiming that "We will state (at an all-party meeting if it is called) that we support Section 377 because we believe that homosexuality is an ...
Men's organizations such as the Save Indian Family Foundation have opposed the law, arguing that it might be misused by women during disputes. [2] [18] Renuka Chowdhury, the Indian Minister for Women and Child Development, agreed in a Hindustan Times article that "an equal gender law would be ideal. But there is simply too much physical ...
In India, "like Hindu women, Muslim women also demanded legal redress for polygamy, child marriage, purdah and denial of property rights". [54] Constitutional laws in India have taken more initiative to improve gender equality than Muslim Personal Law.