Sub-Themes
1. Transgender Community in India: Legal and Social Perspectives
a. Right to Gender Identity
b. Present day problems - social and legal faced by the transgender community in India
c. Need for safeguards – Following the footsteps of states such as Tamil Nadu
d. Suggestions for laws that empower the transgender community
a. Right to Gender Identity
b. Present day problems - social and legal faced by the transgender community in India
c. Need for safeguards – Following the footsteps of states such as Tamil Nadu
d. Suggestions for laws that empower the transgender community
2. Gender Specific Crimes: Causes, Effects and Solutions
a. Gender Specific crimes include issues of domestic violence, Honor Killings, Female infanticide, Sexual Harassment, Rape, Custodial Violence and abuse, Trafficking, Prostitution, etc.
b. The focus of this session must be on examining the social, psychological and other causes that lead to these crimes , the effect of these crimes on women and the solutions whether legal or social or of any other nature
a. Gender Specific crimes include issues of domestic violence, Honor Killings, Female infanticide, Sexual Harassment, Rape, Custodial Violence and abuse, Trafficking, Prostitution, etc.
b. The focus of this session must be on examining the social, psychological and other causes that lead to these crimes , the effect of these crimes on women and the solutions whether legal or social or of any other nature
3. Women and Reproductive Rights (special reference to Surrogacy and Right to abortion)
A) Surrogacy
a. Right of Surrogates in present day India
b. Analysis of the ART Bill
c. Proposals for a law on surrogacy in India
d. Issue of International Surrogacy and impact on surrogates in India
B) Right to an Abortion
A) Surrogacy
a. Right of Surrogates in present day India
b. Analysis of the ART Bill
c. Proposals for a law on surrogacy in India
d. Issue of International Surrogacy and impact on surrogates in India
B) Right to an Abortion
4. Gender Bias & Efforts towards Gender Mainstreaming
a. Efforts taken by the Indian Government to remove Gender Bias and towards Gender Mainstreaming
b. Role played by NGO’s In Gender Mainstreaming
c. Extent of Gender Bias existent in present day society – Cause and impact on women rights
d. Lack of political participation by women
e. Relation of gender bias and access to basic human rights such as health , education, etc.
a. Efforts taken by the Indian Government to remove Gender Bias and towards Gender Mainstreaming
b. Role played by NGO’s In Gender Mainstreaming
c. Extent of Gender Bias existent in present day society – Cause and impact on women rights
d. Lack of political participation by women
e. Relation of gender bias and access to basic human rights such as health , education, etc.