Shalu Nigam

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    Shalu Nigam

    Shalu Nigam is an advocate, researcher and an activist working at the intersection of gender, law, governance and human rights issues. She has been awarded a Senior fellowship by the ICSSR, New Delhi and is connected to several organizations such as PUCL, CWDS, Indian Social Institute, Delhi among others. She has published several articles and books. Recent one is Women and Domestic Violence in India: A Quest for Justice. She is a co-author of The Founding Mothers: 15 Women Architects of Indian Constitution.

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  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights and South Asian Women0

    by Shalu Nigam     15 October 2020  Abstract The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948 is a basic and most significant document. It is not only about indivisible, inalienable, basic human rights. Several people in South Asia discredit human rights as the foreign, Eurocentric, or Western and the male concept, however, in contradiction, this

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  • COVID-19: INDIA’S RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NEEDS RETHINKING1

    by Shalu Nigam 14 May 2020 COVID-19 is posing challenges larger challenges in terms of human rights including health rights of women and children. Since the mandatory lockdown has been imposed, violence against women is exponentially rising world over. Several countries have enacted special policies, laws and programs to deal with violence against women in

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  • Speaking of Injustice: Women and Domestic Violence Law in India0

    by Shalu Nigam 16 February 2020 On February 5, 2020, a news report appeared which reads, “Man beheads wife, walks to police station with severed head for 3 kms” in Uttar Pradesh Barabanki district. On February 15, 2020, another news item reported “Woman found hanging in UP, Family alleges dowry death”, also, on February 4,

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  • Revisiting Hunger in South Asia

    Revisiting Hunger in South Asia0

    Hungry Kya? (Are you Hungry?) This widespread pseudo language phrase has been floating around in electronic, print and digital media besides being projected on billboards across South Asia. The advertiser, while using this phrase along with the image of a slice of a pizza, invites the attention of a section of population to the culture

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