IntroductionIn the current case, a married couple requested permission from the court to end the petitioner's pregnancy medically, citing signifi ...
Accessibility Workstations and Vulnerable Witness Rooms In Delhi HC, District Courts To Be Made Available To Accused With Disabilities For Hybrid Hearings
A Circular was issued by the Hon’ble Acting chief justice of Delhi High court to makecourtrooms more accessible. Acting Hon’ble Chief Justice issued ...
State Government Required to form Transgender board within 2 weeks as directed by Jharkhand HC
IntroductionThe State government has received a directive from the Jharkhand High Court asking for theTransgender Welfare Board to be established ...
Rethinking awareness campaigns: pulling back focus from celebrity culture to a larger cause
What happened? The news of Poonam Pandey, a model, faking her death on social media caused quite a furore. The PR team put out a statement on Inst ...
Supreme Court mandates disability status disclosure during enrolment of the Advocates in State Bar Councils
Facts: On November 6, 2023, the Supreme Court had issued notice in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Fateh Mohit Whig v. Union Of India And Ors. W.P ...
Special Olympics and Intellectual Disability Rights: A Landmark Verdict in Vijay Kumar Pandey vs. Union of India
Introduction: Vijay Kumar Pandey vs. Union of India (W.P. (C) 4452/2019 and CM APPL. 45957/2019) was decided on November 08, 2023. The Delhi High Cou ...
Trans Persons can participate in Sporting Events basis their Gender Identification: Kerala HC
The Writ Petition was instituted in the Kerala High Court pleading the High Court to direct the respondents to permit the petitioner to participate i ...
Conversion therapy as a professional misconduct: Madras HC seeks response from State Medical Council
The present petition is in continuation of Sushma judgment by the Madras HC, wherein the Honorable High Court held conversion therapy to be illegal a ...
Members For National Council For Transgender Persons: Central Government
In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 16 of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 (40 of 2019) the Central Government her ...
Garima Greh: Shelter Homes For Transpersons
INTRODUCTION There is an evident necessity to rehabilitate and rescue transpersons from the evils society has inflicted on this community. T ...
Include Transgender Children To Make Schools More Inclusive: Goa Department Of Education
The Government of Goa in collaboration with the State's Education Department published a circular emphasizing the importance and need for creating co ...
Karnataka State Transgender Policy
Government of Karnataka has framed a policy for transgenders covering the areas of health, education, employment, housing, protection from harassment ...
Quality Education For Transgender Children: GOI
The information was published by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, to take steps to ensure quality education for children of weaker ...
Tamil Nadu Government Orders Ban On Sex Reassignment Surgeries
Madras High Court in Arunkumar's Case gave orders to ban sex reassignment surgeries on intersex infants and children. The Health and Family Welfare D ...
Tripura Transgender Welfare Board
The Government of Tripura, Directorate of Social Welfare & Social Education released a notification to constitute the Transgender Welfare Board f ...
Tamil Nadu Government Issues Notification Under Rte Act To Include Transgender Child
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (Central Act 35 of 2009) was enacted by the Parliament in 2009 to provide for free a ...
Inclusion Of Third Gender In Ugc Scholorships And Schemes
The University Grants Commission (UGC) released a notification stating the inclusion of transgender in the various scholarships and schemes by the UG ...
Kerala High Court reunites Lesbian Couple forcibly separated by their parents
A writ petition was filed by the petitioner, who was a lesbian, alleging illegal detention of her partner by her parents (Respondent 4 and Respondent ...
Transgender daughters entitled to pension of deceased father: Orissa High Court
A Writ Petition under Article 226 and Article 227 of Constitution of India was filed praying for the direction to opposite parties to sanction family ...
Marriage Solemnized Between A Male And Transwoman, Professing Hindu Religion, Is A Valid Marriage: Madras HC
A writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuing a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records pertainin ...
Admit Transpersons Into NCC: Kerala HC
The petitioner in this case was a transwoman. She underwent a Gender Reassignment Surgery and was given a transgender identity card mentioning her ge ...