Law and Vulnerable Groups

Explore the legal landscape surrounding vulnerable groups, including women, children, and marginalized communities. Understand rights, protections, and challenges, and gain valuable insights into creating a more just and equitable society.

Law and Vulnerable Groups

1 Understanding Gender Based Discrimination

  1. Patriarchy
  2. Gender Stereotyping of Roles and Behaviour
  3. Modes of Patriarchal Control
  4. Productive and Reproductive Work
  5. Gender Inequality in the Family: Response of the Law
  6. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
  7. Public-private Divide in Women’s Lives
  8. Gender Equality under the Constitution

2 Violence against Women- Rape and Dowry

  1. Rape
  2. Dowry

3 Domestic Violence

  1. Defining Domestic Violence
  2. Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005
  3. Procedure under the Act
  4. Gaps in the Act and its Operation

4 Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

  1. Understanding Sexual Harassment at the Workplace
  2. A Review of the Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Bill 2007
  3. Some Problems in the Definition and Understanding of Sexual Harassment
  4. Sexual Harassment: The Need for Comprehensive Understanding

5 Rights of Women Workers

  1. The Context
  2. Legal Provisions
  3. Childcare Facilities
  4. Unorganised Workers

6 Convention on the Rights of the Child

  1. The Process of International Law Making
  2. Evolution of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  3. Main Features of the Convention
  4. Rights under the Convention
  5. Implementation Mechanism
  6. Optional Protocols to the Convention
  7. India and the Convention

7 Right to Education

  1. The Indian Context
  2. The Right to Education
  3. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009
  4. Drawbacks of the Act

8 Child Labour

  1. Child Labour – The Problem Magnitude and Challenges
  2. Definition of Child Labour
  3. Child Labour and our Constitution
  4. The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986
  5. Judicial Trends
  6. International Legal Interventions
  7. National Policy on Child Labour

9 Juvenile Justice System

  1. The Genesis of Child Protection Laws: From Child Welfare to Child Rights
  2. The Juvenile Justice Act 1986
  3. The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000
  4. The Mechanisms of JJ Act: A Walk through the JJ Act 2000
  5. The JJ Amendment Act 2006
  6. The Juvenile Justice Model Rules 2007

10 The Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 and Rules, 1977

  1. Legislative History
  2. Applicability
  3. Classification of Disabilities
  4. Presumption as to Offences
  5. Punishments
  6. Other Requirements and Institutional Weaknesses

11 The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and Rules, 1995

  1. Offences under the Act
  2. Stages of a Case
  3. Enforcement Authorities
  4. Punishment for Offences
  5. Rehabilitative and Preventive Measures by the State
  6. Comparing PCRA and POAA
  7. Reasons for Inadequate Implementation

12 The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993

  1. What is Manual Scavenging?
  2. Origins of the Practice of Manual Scavenging
  3. History of Legislation
  4. Main Features of the Act
  5. Authorities under the Act
  6. Schemes in Operation
  7. Problems and Challenges
  8. A Breath of Fresh Air…

13 The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976

  1. What is Bonded Labour?
  2. Legislative History
  3. Salient Features of the Act
  4. Implementing Authorities
  5. Offences and Punishments
  6. Measures taken by the Central and State Governments
  7. Role of the Supreme Court
  8. Hurdles in Implementation

14 Disability and Law-I

  1. Definition
  2. Disability and the United Nations
  3. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
  4. Constitution of India

15 Disability and Law-II

  1. Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995
  2. The Central and State Co-ordination Committees
  3. The Chief Commissioner and Commissioners for Persons with Disabilities
  4. Other Disability Specific Legislations

16 HIV-AIDS

  1. Opportunistic Infections
  2. Issues that Concern Persons Living with HIV-AIDS (PLWHA)
  3. Voluntary Testing
  4. Disclosure and the Right to Confidentiality
  5. Blood Donation and Blood Transfusion
  6. Women and HIV-AIDS
  7. Children and HIV-AIDS
  8. Discrimination at the Workplace
  9. Access to Medicines
  10. Social Security Measures