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WCD ministry's proposed amendments to IRWA Act limited, leave much to be desired; are they too little too late?

Firstpost

Deepika Kinhal

Ireland Has Finally Granted Its Women the Right to Choose

The Wire

Shonottra Kumar

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Events & Updates
National Solidarity Event- The Law Isn't Straight | 19 May 2018, Scope Complex and Central Park (New Delhi)
Vidhi Bengaluru: Briefing Book Launch and Panel Dicussion
Comments on the draft Uttar Pradesh Self-Financed Independent Schools (Regulation of Fees) Bill, 2017
Vidhi's work on discrimination against leprosy affected persons
Litigation on Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities
Vidhi's Briefing Book Launch & Public Debate
Vidhi Launched its Briefing Book: Towards the Rule of Law: 25 Legal Reforms For India
Vidhi seeks legal recognition for Advance Directives
Vidhi Policy Challenge
The Vidhi Dialogues: In conversation with Ms. Anubha Rastogi, Dr. Aparna Chandra and Dr. Suneeta Mittal
The Vidhi Dialogues: In Conversation with Justice A.P. Shah and Mr. Sushant Singh
The Vidhi Dialogues: In Conversation with Dr. Navroz Dubash and Dr. Srikanta K. Panigrahi
Talk on 'Law and Politics of Brexit in the UK Supreme Court'
The Economic Survey and the Union Budget: Legal and Policy Implications
The Vidhi Dialogues : In conversation with Prof. Timothy Garton Ash and Mr. Gautam Bhatia
Video and Transcript: Justice Ruma Pal on the Uniform Civil Code
Event: Dr. Tarunabh Khaitan on Securing Dissenters' Consent for India's Constitution: The Role of Directive Principles
Event: Vidhi Public Lecture 2016 by Justice Ruma Pal on the Uniform Civil Code
Cancelled: Dr. Tarunabh Khaitan's Talk on 'Securing Dissenters' Consent for India's Constitution: The Role of Directive Principles'
Event: Law in Numbers - Evidence-based Approaches to Legal Reform
Video: 'Great Cases' talk by Mr. Anand Grover on the Novartis case
Video: Panel Discussion on Appointments to the Lower and Higher Judiciary
Video: Vikram Raghavan on "Why we should read our Constituent Assembly Debates"
Event: 'Great Cases' talk by Mr. Anand Grover
Event: Vikram Raghavan's Talk on 'Why should we read our Constituent Assembly Debates?'
Video: Great Cases Talk by Ms. Nitya Ramakrishnan on the Parliament attack case
Event: 'Great Cases' talk by Ms. Nitya Ramakrishnan
Event: 'Great Cases' talk by Mr. Arvind P. Datar
Event: 'Great Cases' talk by Ms. Rebecca John
Introducing the Law Reform and Social Change Initiative

Media Mentions

Vidhi in Media
Overworked tribunals fail to clear backlog of pending cases
Vidhi Centre recommends reforms for India's ailing Tribunals
Chronic Lack of Infrastructure in Lower Judiciary, report by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
New Manual Charts Out Route for LGBTQ Community to Navigate the Legal Framework
The Law isn't Straight: This manual for LGBTQI individuals helps them navigate Indian legal system

Firstpost

Fewer Than ⅓ of Judges in Lower Judiciary Are Women

India Spend

Tapping at the glass ceiling: One woman among three judges in Chandigarh courts

Hindustan Times

The Curious Case of Missing Women in Indian Polity

News18

Rethinking the Way India Allocates Judges to Different High Courts

The Wire

Breaking the glass ceiling in judiciary

Financial Express

Legal forum: 'Courts should fine people who try to waste time'

Deccan Herald 

Less than 28 pc judges in lower judiciary are women: Why this is bad for India

News Minute

Only 28 per cent of judges in India’s lower courts are women, and there’s no sign of change

The Print

Gender disparity in lower judiciary, shows study

Matters India 

Glass ceiling in Indian judiciary still a bitter reality for women

The Indian Express

The Stigma Surrounding Leprosy

The Quint 

Tilting of the Scale: Gender Imbalance in the Lower Judiciary

World Law Centre 

Gender Imbalance In Lower Judiciary: Only 27.6% Women Judges In Lower Courts Across India, Finds Vidhi Centre For Legal Policy

Live Law

It’s time to address gender imbalance in the lower judiciary

News Laundary 

Gender disparity in lower judiciary, shows study

The Hindu 

The Stigma Surrounding Leprosy

The Quint

 

Centre to consider leprosy-bias law deletion

The Telegraph 

Corrective Measures Will Be Taken Against Laws Discriminating Against Leprosy Patients: Centre Assures SC , SC Asks States To Do The Same

Live Law

Remove discriminatory provisions in laws regarding leprosy patients: SC

Deccan Herald

From Net Neutrality to IBC to Aadhaar, how Vidhi is Framing Key Government Legislations
Report finds CCI procedures lacking

Business Standard 

NCLAT getting clogged up; Appellate body has no competition law expert

Financial Express

Govt proposes wide-ranging changes to environmental clearance rules, activists cry foul

Hindustan Times

Severe air pollution in Delhi, still no criminal cases filed, NCRB data for 2016 shows

Hindustan Times

SC questions need of 119 laws discriminating against leprosy- afflicted people

Hindustan Times

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