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The Lawyers Collective Women's Rights Initiative (LCWRI herein after) is a group of lawyers, law students and legal activities committed to the use of law as an effective instrument for empowering and changing the status of women in India. Since its inception in 1998, the LCWRI has been actively engaged with the entire legal regime of addressing the rights of women in law. Towards this, the LCWRI has over the recent past initiated, undertaken and participated in ...
For about half a century now, South Asia has enjoyed independence and constitutional rule, but many countries have inherited a plural legal system as a legacy of colonialism. In all five counties of the region, constitutional guarantees of equality and non-discrimination are confounded by discriminatory personal laws that institutionalize gender inequality. Contributors to this volume address this problem from the perspective of countries that are statedly ...