In this edition of ‘Staying Alive’, Sara Hossain, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and working pro bono at the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust reflects on the drafting of Ba ...
Despite research showing that women’s complaints under the Domestic Violence Act are overwhelmingly genuine, courts and lawmakers continue to entertain claims of ‘misuse’ while the law itself remains ...
In the July edition of ‘Staying Alive’, we ask what the PWDVA’s mandate looks like inside a hospital ward, twenty years into Dilaasa, the CEHAT and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation initiative that t ...
In the June edition of ‘Staying Alive’, a survivor recounts how a lawyer told her the PWDVA offers no remedy without physical abuse, and why twenty years after the Act recognised emotional and economi ...
In the May edition of ‘Staying Alive’, Hasina Khan, of the Bebaak Collective, traces how the PWDVA became a crucial tool for Muslim women navigating divorce threats, for young adults facing family con ...
