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Reimagining Reproductive Rights Jurisprudence In India: Reflections On The Recent Decisions On Privacy And Gender Equality From The Supreme Court Of India, Dipika Jain, Payal K. Shah
Reimagining Reproductive Rights Jurisprudence In India: Reflections On The Recent Decisions On Privacy And Gender Equality From The Supreme Court Of India, Dipika Jain, Payal K. Shah
Human Rights Institute
In July 2018, twenty-year-old Sarita approached the Supreme Court of India seeking permission to terminate her twenty-five-week pregnancy. Sarita was a domestic violence survivor and suffered from other health complications due to epilepsy. She had learned of her pregnancy at seventeen weeks and her petition stated that she had become pregnant as a result of her husband’s refusal to use contraceptives. At twenty-one weeks, when she first approached the Bombay High Court, Sarita was just one week over the legal limit specified in the 1971 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP Act), which permits termination of pregnancies on certain grounds up …
Gendered Subjects Of Transitional Justice, Katherine M. Franke
Gendered Subjects Of Transitional Justice, Katherine M. Franke
Faculty Scholarship
Transitional societies must contend with a range of complex challenges as they seek to come to terms with and move beyond an immediate past saturated with mass murder, rape, torture, exploitation, disappearance, displacement, starvation, and all other manner of human suffering. Questions of justice figure prominently in these transitional moments, and they do so in a dual fashion that is at once backward and forward looking. Successor governments must think creatively about building institutions that bring justice to the past, while at the same time demonstrate a commitment that justice will form a bedrock of governance in the present and …