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How middle-class women led the movement to demand a change in rape laws in post-Independence India
Manisha Pande
· Yesterday · 08:30 am
BJP’s coalition partners may stop new laws curbing liberties being passed – but older ones remain
Nachiket Deuskar
· Jun 24, 2024 · 09:00 am
An environmental lawyer studies in this new book how Dalits are excluded from India’s forest laws
Arpitha Kodiveri
· May 20, 2024 · 08:30 am
‘We Press On!’: Plaintiff Johnson Ong after Singapore Court upholds ban on gay sex
Scroll Staff
· Mar 03, 2022 · 10:22 am
Watch: Rahul Gandhi’s January video predicting farm law repeal is being reposted on social media
Scroll Staff
· Nov 19, 2021 · 11:54 am
Why no legal definition of citizenship can cover economic, social, cultural, and other rights
Ayesha Kidwai
· Mar 05, 2020 · 08:30 am
Indian states rarely give back anything to the internal migrants who help them flourish
Varun Aggarwal, Priyansha Singh and Rohini Mitra, IndiaSpend.com
· Aug 28, 2019 · 01:30 pm
From Mahua Moitra to Shashi Tharoor: Speeches by MPs against designating individuals as terrorists
Scroll Staff
· Jul 26, 2019 · 06:13 pm
Delhi High Court’s censure of India’s vagrancy laws could be a step towards decriminalising begging
Saurabh Bhattacharjee
· Aug 25, 2018 · 06:30 pm
Video: The reason why being gay is still criminal in many countries
Shone Satheesh
· Feb 22, 2018 · 08:45 am
Virtual child pornography could both help and hinder law enforcement
Hadeel Al-Alosi, The Conversation
· Sep 12, 2017 · 11:30 pm
The law comes before freedom of expression, says the lawyer who represents most publishers in India
Kanishka Gupta
· Jun 29, 2017 · 08:30 am
A Pakistani Hindu forwards a WhatsApp message, gets attacked by mob on allegations of blasphemy
Reema Abbasi
· May 22, 2017 · 09:30 pm
Stephen Fry’s case shows that anti-blasphemy laws aren’t just a problem in the Islamic world
Steve Pinkerton, The Conversation
· May 11, 2017 · 11:30 pm
Are human rights anything more than legal conventions?
John Tasioulas
· Apr 21, 2017 · 08:30 pm
In many Indian states and union territories, you can be arrested just for 'looking' poor
Team Nyaaya
· Apr 04, 2017 · 07:30 pm
Under the Modi government, Parliamentarians have asked a stream of questions about the Ganga
Devjyot Ghoshal, qz.com
· Mar 30, 2017 · 07:30 pm
Watch: Are these the weirdest laws in the world?
Scroll Staff
· Mar 29, 2017 · 05:00 pm
A court case in the US raises important questions about age discrimination in the hiring process
Peter Gosselin, ProPublica
· Mar 25, 2017 · 11:30 pm
In 8 years of Parliament, Yogi Adityanath’s favourite debate topic was Hindu affairs
Alison Saldanha, Factchecker.in
· Mar 25, 2017 · 07:30 pm
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