As part of our collaborative work with Centre for Reproductive Rights, we translated easy-to-understand FAQ Brochures on Child Marriage for our outreach in Karnataka. The brochure contains the relevant legal framework around Child Marriage in India.
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Child Marriage Posters: Kannada
As part of our collaborative work with Centre for Reproductive Rights, we translated easy-to-understand Posters on Child Marriage for our outreach in Karnataka. The poster contains the relevant legal framework around Child Marriage in India.
Child Marriage Posters: English
As part of our collaborative work with Centre for Reproductive Rights, we disseminated easy-for-reference Posters on Child Marriage for our outreach. The poster contains the relevant legal framework around Child Marriage in India.
Child Marriage FAQs Brochure: English
As part of our collaborative work with Centre for Reproductive Rights, we disseminated FAQ Brochures on Child Marriage for our outreach. The brochure contains the relevant legal framework around Child Marriage in India.
Joseph Shine vs. Union of India
CLPR represented the intervenor Vimochana in the Supreme Court and challenged the constitutionality of the offence of adultery under Section 497 of the IPC. We argued against adultery as an offence by invoking the fundamental right to privacy and argued that the right to intimate association is a facet of privacy which is protected under the Constitution. The Supreme Court unanimously struck down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code as being violative of Articles 14. 15 & 21 of the Constitution.
Shiv Kumar vs Union Of India
The right to seek a divorce by mutual consent is provided under the Hindu Marriage…
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Oct 2018
Shaping Law. Shaping Gender – Experiences from India
Venue Humboldt University of Berlin
Time
Jayna Kothari participated in the Interdisciplinary Workshop held on 11 – 13 October 2018 at Humboldt University of Berlin. She was one of the panelists in ‘Systems of Inequality’ and presented her paper titled ‘Is the Supreme Court Cherry Picking its Gender Battles?’
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Dec 2017
Discussion on the Supreme Court verdict in the Independent Thought case
Venue Centre for Law and Policy Research
Time 2:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
CLPR invites lawyers, CSOs, government officials and academics to discuss the details of the judgment, on how it could be implemented and its impact on the Karnataka amendments to the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 (PCMA).
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May 2017
Consultation on Child Marriage
Venue Centre for Law and Policy Research
Time 09:30 A.M. - 05:00 P.M.
n collaboration with the Centre for Reproductive Rights, Centre for Law and Policy Research organized a Consultation on Child Marriage and the Law on 19th May 2017. The workshop aimed at creating a discourse and urgent dialogue on child marriage and the legal issues surrounding it.
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Jun 2015
Round Table Consultation on Special Courts for Sexual Offences against Women and Children, 4:00 PM, June 13
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Venue Centre for Law and Policy Research, D6 Dona Cynthia, 35 Primrose Road, Bangalore – 560025
Time 4.pm – 6.pm
Mirror Now
Dignity March: Sexual abuse survivors to cover 10,000 kms to end social stigma
Over 5,000 survivors of sexual violence across the country Thursday embarked on a 65-day-long ‘Dignity March’ from the city, which will culminate in New Delhi on February 22, its organisers said. CLPR Managing Director and Senior Advocate Jayna Kothari was present at the launch of the march at Somaiya Ground.
Times of India
When I had brought out the issue of casting couch, everyone had denied its existence
In the wake of the #MeToo movement that has seen several actors come forward with their stories of sexual harassment and abuse, including those in the Kannada film industry for Rights and Equality (FIRE) want people from the industry to raise their voices. Jayna Kothari, is a member of FIRE’s Internal Complaints Committee.
The News Minute
Refer sexual harassment complaints to our ICC: FIRE tells Kannada film body
Film Industry for Rights and Equity (FIRE) was formed 18 months ago by a group of people including actors, directors and technicians, who have been vocal for the need to address sexual harassment women in the industry. FIRE has appealed to the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) to refer all sexual harassment complaints they receive to FIRE’s Internal Complaints Committee. Jayna Kothari is on the FIRE’s Internal Complaints Committee.
CNN
India strikes down sexist adultery law: ‘Husband is not the master of the wife’
This article quotes Jayna Kothari on the recent judgment on Adultery. Jayna notes that this decision is this a big victory for women’s status and position within marriage and within families.
UN report on the declining trend in child marriages globally
Two days before the International Women’s Day, UNICEF reported on 6th March 2018 that there had been a downward trend in child marriages globally and in the past decade the number of underage marriages in India had nearly halved.
Release of Policy Brief: ‘Ending Impunity for Child Marriage in India’
On 10th February 2018, Centre for Law and Policy Research, Bangalore and Center for Reproductive Rights released the Policy Brief “Ending Impunity for Child Marriage in India: A Review of Normative and Implementation Gaps” at the Karnataka Judicial Academy. The Brief was released by Justice Ashok B. Hinchigeri (retd.) of Karnataka High Court, in the presence of District Judges, Magistrates and judicial officers, lawyers, representatives of Child Welfare Committees, and civil society groups. Nina Nayak, the former Chairperson of the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights and a Child rights activist, and officials of the Department of Women and Child Development, Karnataka were also present.
Press Conference on Supreme Court decision in Independent Thought v. Union of India
The Press Conference sought to spread awareness about the decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Independent Thought v. Union of India and the implications of this decision.
Supreme Court Holds Marital Exception Will Not Apply where Wife Below 18
In 2013, Independent Thought, a voluntary organisation involved with the issue of child rights approached the Supreme Court seeking a declaration that Exception 2 to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code violates Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Constitution to the extent that fixes a lower age of consent and permits forced sexual intercourse by the husband with a girl who is between the ages of 15 to 18. Consequently, on 28.08.2017, an application for Intervention was filed on behalf of the Child Rights Trust, a non-governmental organisation working to secure Every Right for Every Child. Advocate Jayna Kothari, Executive Director of the Centre for Law & Policy Research appeared and argued on behalf of the Child Rights Trust.