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On the Domestic Violence Law: How the PWDVA has been domesticated with dubious interpretations

On the Domestic Violence Law: How the PWDVA has been domesticated with dubious interpretations

Justice K. Chandru (Retd.)
12 min read
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 ...

20 Years of the Domestic Violence Act

‘Hospitals offer a critical window of opportunity for supporting survivors’: Making the PWDVA work in health systems

‘Hospitals offer a critical window of opportunity for supporting survivors’: Making the PWDVA work in health systems

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 ...
By
Sangeeta Rege
9 min read
‘A woman has to be beaten up to be able to use the PWDVA’: A survivor’s reckoning with promises the law offers

‘A woman has to be beaten up to be able to use the PWDVA’: A survivor’s reckoning with promises the law offers

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 ...
By
The Leaflet
10 min read
‘The DV Act is a huge law with great significance, and it is under threat’: Hasina Khan on Muslim women, youth, and PWDVA

‘The DV Act is a huge law with great significance, and it is under threat’: Hasina Khan on Muslim women, youth, and PWDVA

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 ...
By
Asmita Basu
13 min read
‘For most women, accessing justice is a privilege rather than a right’: Alternative Law Forum on PWDVA in practice

‘For most women, accessing justice is a privilege rather than a right’: Alternative Law Forum on PWDVA in practice

The April edition of ‘Staying Alive’ foregrounds the experiences of Alternative Law Forum, a lawyers’ collective based in Bengaluru, working with the PWDVA across police stations, protection officers ...
By
Mrudula Vanangamudi
10 min read
‘Dignity animates the Domestic Violence Act, as it does the Constitution’: Jawahar Raja on the unexplored potential of PWDVA

‘Dignity animates the Domestic Violence Act, as it does the Constitution’: Jawahar Raja on the unexplored potential of PWDVA

The March edition of ‘Staying Alive’ explores the critical role of Mahila Panchayats in bringing remedies closer to marginalised women and the need for a creative re-imagination of the role of Protect ...
By
Asmita Basu
15 min read
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